eee anet 
Helichryswm.] XXIII. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND HIERN). 353 
oblong ; outer oval, woolly at base outside. Receptacle fimbrilliferous. 
Achenes glabrous. FI. all $. Pappus barbate, slightly connate at 
base into ring.—Sch. Bip. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. iii. p. 174 
(1845). A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. p. 425. Gnaphalium gerberefolium, 
Sch. Bip. l.c. 
Mile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Mozamb, Distr. Near Sotchi, alt. 3,500 ft., Dr. Kirk ! Shire (form with dense 
clusters of capitula and root-leaves about 7-nerved), Dr Stewart ! 
20. H. undatum, Less. ; DO. Prodr. vi. p. 198. Erect appressed- 
whitish-tomentose perennial herb; stem simple, leafy below, 14-4 ft. 
high. Lower leaves ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, narrowed 
into the petiole, thinly scabrid above, 3-5-nerved and shortly appressed- 
tomentose beneath ; upper linear-lanceolate or linear-acuminate, tip in 
our specimens minutely revolute or cincinnate ; lower 34-5 in. long, 
1-2 in. broad ; petiole varying to 2 in. Capitula about + in. diameter, 
collected in dense subhemispherical or corymbose umbelliform cymes 
1-6 in. diameter, terminating the leafless extremities. Inner involucral 
scales loose or spreading, oblong or linear, obtuse, outer elliptical or 
ovate, rose-coloured above, cottony beneath. Only ¥ florets in our 
Specimens, inserted on an alveolate receptacle with conspicuous orange- 
coloured fimbrilla. Achenes glabrous.—Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 
md. xxix. t. 62. 
North Central. Monbuttu-land, Dr. Schwein furth ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Hills of Chogwe, 6° 51'S. Lat., about 36° E. Long., Speke 
and Grant ! (Antennaria, sp. Speke, Journ. App. 638); Moramballa, 3,000 ft. alt., 
Dr. Kirk! 
Oceurs also in South Africa. 
21. H. oxyphyllum, DO. Prodr. vi. p. 199. Stem straight, erect, 
terete, thinly lanate, faintly striate, 24 ft. high or more, naked above, 
in. thick. Leaves linear-lanceolate, upper narrower, acutely acum)- 
nate, acicular at apex, sessile, auriculate, pale-tomentellous beneath, 
scaberulous and green above, lower 3-nerved, ranging to 6 in. long by 
¢ IM. wide or more. Capitula widely campanulate, } in. long, on short 
unequal pedicels, crowded in a dense corymbose terminal umbel 4} 
in. diameter, the primary rays of which are about 17 in number, 1-13 
In. long, lanate, with linear acute bracts at base about ? in. long. 
Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, imbricate ; innermost linear-oblong, 
obtuse, white-opaque above; intermediate oblong, very obtuse, white- 
opaque above ; outer oval, very obtuse, shorter, darker, woolly at base. 
eptacle with long fleshy fimbrille. Fl. all hermaphrodite. Achenes 
glabrous, 
OamD. Distr. Manganja Hills, Dr. Meller! 
“Urs also south of the Tropic. ; aa } 
t ty above description is based upon Dr. Meller's specimen, which differs from the 
Ype by the remarkable umbelliferous inflorescence. 
22. H. cymosum, Less.;- DO. Prodr. vi. p. 202. Suffraticose. 
‘rect, much-branched, 1-4 ft. high ; branches virgate, terete, tomentose 
Sbove, glabrate below, leafy. Leaves lanceolate or linear, acute, sessile, 
“orvate-amplexicaul, woolly especially beneath, entire, margins often 
+ Til, AA 
