848 LXXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [Helichrysum. 
5. H. Quartinianum, 4. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 427. Perennial 
herb, erect, albido-tomentose, 1} ft. high; stems simple or nearly s0, 
terete, with rather sparse leaves. Leaves linear-oblong, subacute, 
sessile, subamplexicaul, entire, 1-3 in. long by ~~ in. wide. Capitula 
hemispherical, about 4 in. diam., many-flowered, on short unequal 
pedicels, in dense globose cymes 2-3 in. diam. at the rather slender 
ends of the stems. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, imbricated, 
mostly 3-sulcate-nerved ; inner linear acute, 4 in. long, glabrous, more 
coriaceous below; intermediate spathulate-oblong, glabrous, succes- 
sively shorter; outermost ovate with basal woolly claw. Receptacle 
flat, 4 in. diam., shortly fimbrilliferons, ultimately naked. Florets all 
%. Achenes oblong, 4-8-costate, truncate, glabrous, yg 1D. long. 
Pappus barbellate, uniseriate, connate at very base, slightly ruddy, 
slender. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Q. Dillon and Petit! 
6. H. gracilipes, 0. & H. Procumbent surculose herb, rosulate 
at base, with filiform terete quickly glabrate branches 2-5 i. long. 
Leaves albido-tomentellous especially beneath, mucronulate, _cauline 
distant, more or less elliptical, subacute or subobtuse, subsessile, nar- 
rowed at the base, 3-4 in. long by 44-4 in. wide; radical approximated, 
obtuse or rounded, narrowed at base into petiole or in some forms 
_cordate-reniform, 4-§ in. long by }-8 in. wide ; petioles 3-4 in. long. 
Capitula campanulate, 20-flowered, } in. long, on slender glabrate 
peduncles }-1 in. long at ends of principal branches or on shorter 
peduncles at ends of short axillary branches, solitary or subsolitary- 
Scales of the involucre pluri- (about 5-) seriate, straw-coloured, gla- 
brous, acute; inner linear; outer successively shorter and more 
lanceolate. Receptacle naked. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Achenes 
thinly puberulous. Pappus white, barbate with patent bristles. 
Wile Land. Red Sea, Nimnw ! 
7. H&. citrispinum, Del. in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. ii. vol. xx. P- 93. 
Fruticose ; branches divaricate, terete, pale-tomentose, leafy and spmous 
above. Leaves linear-lanceolate or oblong, obtuse or subacute, revolute, 
sessile, not narrowed at the base, often crowded in terminal ahd 
incano-pubescent on both sides, about 4 in. long, upper often wit 
axillary spines about } in. long. Capitula widely campanulate, 4-3 
long, solitary at the ends of the short leafy branches. Scales of 1V0- 
lucre pluriseriate, scarions, lanceolate, subobtuse, coriaceous at bases 
outer shorter. Receptacle foveolate; margins of pits with toothe 
margins. Flowers all 3. Corolla-lobes nigro-punctate. Achenes 
shortly pubescent; hairs shining.—H. spinosum, Schultz Bip. 1° a4 
Schimp. Abyss. Sect. ii. nn. 666, 1246 ; Gnaphaliwm spinosum, Schul 
Bip. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. iii. p. 173 (1845). 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Roth! Ferret and Galinier ! 11-13,000 ft. alt. 
Gnaphalium crispatulum, Del. Fl. Hgypt. p. 123, t. 44, f. 3, an tian specie” 
is mentioned in Schultz Bip. and Aschert) tunis. o, 286m 2456, a ooarring ste 
Nubia and Abyssinia. A specimen so named, belonging to the Berlin herbarium 
seen by us, we regard as conspecific with Helichrysum citrispinum, Del. 
