210 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
Leaves subulate ; iny. sc. obtuse (heads small) (44) mucronatum. 
Leaves imbricated, ovate or ovato-lanceolate, broad-based (45) chlorochrysum. 
Leaves recurved, obovate or spathulate, narrow-based : 
Villous, dirty-whitish ; inv. scales lanceolate, dull... (46) sordescens. 
Silvery-white ; invol, scales lustrous white or rosy, 
lanceolate, the innermost short and obtuse ... (47) argenteum. - 
§ 8. XERANTHEMOIDEA. Diffuse or procumbent shrubs or suffrutices. Leaves 
sessile, mostly recurved, rigid, acute or acuminate, crowded. Heads many-flowered, 
solitary at the ends of the branches, Invol. scales radiating, acute or acuminate, 
white or purplish or rosy. (Sp. 48-52.) 
Flowering branches ending in a nearly nude pedunele : 
Leaves silvery; inv. scales very long, narrow, acu- 
MURGO = ie a ees sts a.) (48) Naneifolium. 
Leaves glabrous above, silky beneath ; invol. scales 
ovato-lanceolate ... ...0 1s. «0. ose se ese (49) recurvatum. 
Flowering branches closely leafy to the very summit : 
Stem dwarf, umbellately much branched ... ... (50) ramulosum. 
Stem diffuse or prostrate, or trailing : 
Leaves linear, acute, 1-14 line wide, squarrose (51) stoloniferum. 
Lvs. oblong or ovate, 2-4 lines wide, recurved (52) retortum, 
§ 9. Etecantissm™a. Erect herbs, with crowded radical leaves, and simple or 
corymbose, leafy stems. Leaves sessile, oblong, of thin substance. Heads very 
many-fl., radiating, corymbose or solitary. Inv. scales acute or acuminate, lustrous 
white or rosy. (Sp. 53-55.) 
Heads solitary; lvs. nude, with woolly margins ... ... (53) marginatum, 
Heads corymbose : 
Lys. copiously woolly (especially the radical) ... (54) adenocarpum. 
Lvs. thinly cobwebby, becoming nude above... ... (55) elegantissimum. 
B. DASYLEPIDEA. Inv. seales dorsally densely pubescent or shaggy, not radi- 
ating, and neither conspicuously white or yellow. (Shrubs and suffrutices. Heads 
of small size, corymbose or glomerate.) (§ 10.—Sp. 56-61.) 
Shrub. Leaves on long petioles, cordate-ovate or sub- 
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Suffrutices. Leaves sessile, oblong, obovate or roundish : 
Heads sessile, several crowded together in tufts : 
(56) populifolinm, 
Diffuse or prostrate, slender... ... ... ... (57) marifolium. 
Erect or suberect. Pedune. long. Heads 4-5- 
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Erect or suberect. Heads 20-30, in subsessile 
tufts 4a .. (59) coriaceum, 
Heads pedicellate, in closely-branched cymes. ‘Stem 
VRC ce ooh sess iti eitey West sss an, - ase, (00) Wnbeliatum, 
Suffrutex. Leaves sessile, linear, Heads corymbose ... (61) Lambertianum. 
C. CHRYSOLEPIDEA. Iny. scales yellow (usually golden-yellow, but in § 11 
varying to straw-colour; and in a few other cases horn-colour or colourless). (§ 11-12.) 
§ 11. XERocHLaNA. Herbs or suffrutices. Heads corymbose or solitary, usually 
many-flowered. Invol. glabrous and glossy, radiating, scales lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate, straight, golden-yellow or straw-colour. (Sp. 62-69.) 
Stem herbaceous. Cauline lvs. decurrent, scabrous. Hds. 
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Stem herbacous, erect ; cauline leaves broad, clasping ; heads ies many-flowered : 
Leaves glandular and setose on both sides, setoso- 
ne i ee as es pc (63) setosum. 
Lvs. scabrous above; more or less woolly and 
whitish beneath... ... 0... 21. ces vee» (64) fostidum. 
