Helichryswn.] COMPOSITE (Harv.) 207 
this scarcely differs from L. glomeratus, DQ.’s var. 8. diffusus, by the distributed 
specimens, belongs rather to L. glomeratus. 
5. L. spathulatus (Less.! Syn. p. 327); closely or loosely white- 
woolly (sometimessnow-white); stems prostrate, slender, much-branched 
and decompound, leafy throughout ; leaves obovate or spathulate, nar- 
rowed to the base, obtuse; heads 3-6 together, sessile on short, lateral 
twigs, subtended by floral leaves ; inner iny.-scales linear or oblong, 
straight, obtuse or minutely bidentate, rosy-tipped. Gnaph. spathulatum, 
Th. ! Cap. 656. 
Var. a. hirsutus; toment loosely woolly. JZ. spathulatus, DC.! 1. c. 168. L. 
pusillus, Hb. Drege! 
Var. f. candidissimus; toment very white and close-lying. L. candidissimus, 
DC.! 0. e. 169. 
Has. Table Mountain, &c. and on the Flats, common; also in Worcester, Stellen- 
bosch and Uitenhage, Z. d Z.! Near the Gariep, Drege/ Zey.! 2880, ex pte., 
2879, &e. (Herb. Th., Hk., Sd.) 
Only to be known from Z. glomeratus, with which it grows intermixed, and from 
whose var. 8. it scarcely differs, by the obtuse (not acuminate) and very generally 
bidentate inv.-scales. Var. 8. is snow-white in all parts, with closely interwoven 
wool, but both these characters vary greatly. Some of Z. ¢ Z.’s distributed speci- 
mens marked ‘‘ L. angustifolius” belong to this. 
Doubtful species. 
Eriosphera dubia (DC. 1. c. 167); “stems scarcely suffruticose at 
base, numerous, erect, cobwebby-woolly ; leaves obovato-spathulate, on 
both sides woolly-tomentose, nearly nerveless, obtuse, exapiculate ; heads 
crowded, tufted-corymbose, subtended by a few floral leaves, about 
20-fl. ; inv.-scales acuminate, submembranaceous.” DC. 
Has. Wittberg, Drege! (Herb. Hk., D.) 
Of this I have only seen bad specimens, which I am unable to separate from 
Leontonyx squarrosus. Possibly Drege may have in this instance (as in several 
others he certainly has) distributed a wrong plant. 
LXXVIII. HELICHRYSUM, Vaill. 
Heads many or few-fl., discoid, either homogamous, all the fl. tubular, 
perfect, 5-toothed ; or heterogamous, the marginal-flowers filiform, female, 
very few or in a single row. nv. imbricating, dry and membranous. 
Recept. without palex, either quite naked, honey-combed, toothed or 
fimbrilliferous. Achenes beakless, sessile, very generally minutely gra- 
nulated, (in H. ericoides, silky). Pappus in one row, of many or few, 
slender, scabrous or serrulated bristles. DG. U. c. p. 169. 
A vast genus of herbs or suffrutices, very various in aspect, abundant in 8. Africa 
and Australia, rare in S. Europe, N. Africa and Central Asia; not found in America. 
Stems and leaves mostly woolly. Iny. white, rosy, horn-coloured or yellow. Cor. 
yellow, rarely purple. This genus only differs from Gnaphalium by the fewer filiform, 
inal-flowers ; from Helipterum by the bristle-shaped pappus. The name is de- 
rived from 7Auos, the sun, and xpueos, gold ; applicable to. such species as H. fulgidum. 
Sub-genus I. EU-HELICHRYSUM. Receptacle naked (neither 
fimbrilliferous nor toothed) or scarcely honey-combed. (Sp. 1-80.) 
