352 LXXIII, COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). [ Helichrysum, 
narrowly alate, shining, covered above with easily detached wool. 
Leaves elongate-linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile, decurrent, subentire, 
thinly and appressedly pale-tomentose or lanate beneath, scabrid and 
thinly lanate at length glabrate above, obscurely 3-nerved, ranging up 
to 4 in. long by 4-4 in. wide. Capitula campanulate, many-flowered, 
4-} in. long, gold-coloured, on short unequal lanate pedicels, in dense 
corymbose cymes 3-6 in. diameter. Scales of involucre 4—5-serlate, 
glabrous, yellow; innermost linear or linear-oblong, subacute or obtuse ; 
outer elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Receptacle foveolate. % fl. numerous, 
as well as the ¢ fl. Achenes oblong, subterete, nearly glabrous.— 
Gnaphalium biafranum, Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 306. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountains, 7,000 ft. alt., Mann / 
18. H. foetidum, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. vi. p. 187. A stout biennial 
herb, 1-4 ft. high, variable and widely spreading ; stem erect, simple 
below, corymbosely branched above ; branches glandulose-pubescent or 
tomentose above, terete, faintly striate. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 
acute, apiculate, sessile, cordate-amplexicaul, flat, entire, white-tomen- 
tose beneath, scaberulous-subglabrate above, 1-5 in. long by 3-1 1. 
wide. Capitula hemispherical, 4-1 in. diameter, with very numerous 
florets, on short pedicels, densely crowded in corymbose or sometimes 
elongated cymes. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, golden yellow or 
cream-coloured, shining, glabrous, acute, subacute or subobtuse ; inner 
rather exceeding the florets, linear, coriaceous below, scarious above; 
intermediate lanceolate-spathulate ; outer ovate, subobtuse, shorter, 
woolly at base outside. Receptacle flat, areolate, naked. ¢ fl. very 
numerous. % fl. numerous. Athenes oblong, very small, glabrous. 
Pappus barbellate.—Bot. Mag. tt. 1987, 5431. H. glutinosum, A. Br. 
in Flora xxiv. i. p. 277 (1841). H. Mannii, Hook. fil. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc, vi. p.12. Gnaphalium Buchingeri, Schultz Bip.! in Schweinf. 
Beitr. Fl. Aithiop. p. 285. n. 2453. G. fetidum, Linn. Sp. Pl 851 
(1753). 
There are 3 fo i i i iefly i i itula and 
the denwnan, of the foliage species, varying chiefly in the size of the cap 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po and Cameroon Mountains, 4-13,000 ft. alt., 
Mann! Old Calabar! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Petit! Roth! 
Occurs also south of the Tropic. 
19. H. gerbereefolium, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. sect. 
i,n. 203. Perennial herb, 1-1} ft. high ; stem slender, terete, lanate, 
naked above; stock thick. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acute, acuml- 
nate, more or less cottony beneath and subglabrate above, narrow at 
the base, 5-nerved ; cauline sessile, clasping, 1-2 in. long by 34 2. 
wide, upper lanceolate or linear ; radical narrowed at base into cy!12- 
drical petiole, dilated and sheathing at base, ranging up to 6 in. long: 
Capitula campanulate, } in. long, 30-flowered, on very short pedicels, 
in dense small globose clusters, forming a branched terminal cyme 
2-24 in. long by 14-2 in. wide. Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, 
obtuse, of straw colour; innermost linear-oblong ; intermediate oval- 
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