ory 
Tas. 7789. 
HELICHRYSUM Gutizimt. 
; Native of Eastern Tropical Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Comrosira.—Tribe INULOIDER. 
Genus Heticurysum, Gertn.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p, 809.) 
Heuicurysum (Xerochlwna) Gulielmi; herba perennis, robusta, foliosa 
lanuginosa, foliis 3-5 poll. longis sessilibus oblongo- v. lineari-lanceolatis 
obtusis inferioribus recurvis superioribus patulis, costa subtus crassa, 
capitulis corymbosis pedicellatis 1-14 poll. latis, pedicellis robustis 
_bracteatis, involucri bracteis numerosis multiseriatis albis v. extus roseis 
intus albis exterioribus brevibus lanceolatis patulis interioribus grada- 
tim longioribus 4-3 poll. longis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis patenti- 
incurvis, receptaculo latiusculo 4 poll. lato planiusculo glabro nudo, 
disci latiusculi aurei floribus extimis paucis foemineis anguste tubulosis, 
ceteris masculis numerosis breviter 5-dentatis, antheraram caudiculis 
aN pappi setis sigillatim deciduis scaberulis, acheniis brevibus 
glabris. 
H. Gulielmi, Engler, Ueber die Hochgebirgsflora des trop. Afrik. p. 426 
(1892). Gumbleton in Gard. Chron, 1900, vol. ii. p. 333, fig. 103. 
The very handsome plant here figured is a conspicuous 
member of the flora of Kili-manjaro in German East 
Africa, where it is found with two other species at elevations 
of 5000 to upwards of 9000 ft. The genus Helichrysum 
is characteristic of the vegetation of the loftiest moun- 
tains of tropical Africa, several inhabiting the Cameroon 
mountains in the Gulf of Guinea, one of which, H. Mannit, 
is figured on Tab. 5431 of this work. Others are found 
on Mt. Kenia in British East Africa, and a considerable 
number may be expected to occur on the lofty and snow- 
capped range of Ruwenzori in Uganda. 
Tam indebted to W. Gumbleton, Esq., of Belgrove, Co. 
Cork, for the specimen here figured of H. Gulielmi, which, 
together with the two other species from the same 
locality, he raised from seeds which were collected by Dr. 
Hans Meyer of Leipsic, and distributed by Mr. Max 
Leichtlin. Mr. Gumbleton informs me that it attains a 
height of two feet, one specimen bearing six branches, 
each with fourteen to eighteen flower-heads, to be followed 
by others. It flowered in a greenhouse, in October, 1900, 
Aveust lst, 1901. 
