214 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [Helichrysum 
Heads cylindrical, 5-fl.; inv. closely imbricate ... (133) Zeyheri. 
§ 17. CHIonosTeMMA. Very woolly suffrutices. Leaves sessile, oblong or linear. 
Heads large, many-fl., solitary or aggregated. Inv. scales lustrous, white or whitish, 
lanceolate, acuminate, radiating. Recept. covered with lanceolate-acyminate, scale- 
like fimbrils, longer than the ovary. (Sp. 134-135.) 
Tall; lvs. oblong or linear; inv. lustrous-white; corollas 
purple above ... -s... seg A tee, te. (194) Veetifom. 
Dwarf; lower lvs. tapering at base ; inv. whitish; corollas 
yellow... ...° .. cepar ete eer. C198) Eeklonis. 
§ 18. Epmonprs. Slender, glabrate suffrutices. Leaves subulate or filiform, 
glossy. Heads solitary, terminal. Inv. scales lustrous, either white, rosy, purple- 
brown or yellow, lanceolate, acuminate, radiating. Recept. covered with long or 
short fimbrils. (Sp. 136-137.) 
_ Lys. keeled. Inv. campanulate. Fimbrils longer than 
the ovaries 
apo tie ve ee ts eee (196) sesamoides. 
Lvs. round-backed. Iny. turbinate. Fimbrils very short 
137) humile. 
Sub-genus 1. EU-HELICHRYSUM. (Sp. 1-80.) 
A. ARGYREIA, (§ 1-9.) 
§ 1. Leprorsiza. (Sp. 1-8.) 
1. H. leptorhizum (DC. 1. c. 169) ; root annual, slender, simple ; 
stems many from the crown, diffuse, simple, slender, woolly like the 
leaves ; leaves obovate-oblong, mucronate, tapering at base; heads 3-5, 
in the upper axils and terminal, sub-sessile, about 16-f1., ovate ; outer 
inv.-scales loosely woolly, the rest glabrous, searious, brown and horn- 
colour, oblong, obtuse, straight. 
Has. Kaus Mt., Little Namaqualand, 3-4000 f., Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
A minute annual. Stems 1-2 inches long, laxly leafy. Leaves 4-5 lines long, 
2 lines wide. Heads 2 lines long. Female-fi. about 8. 
2. H. Leontonyx (DC. 1. c. 169); root annual, slender, simple; stems 
many from the crown, diffuse, simple, slender, woolly like the leaves ; 
leaves obovate, very obtuse, tapering at base, nerveless, the cauline remote, 
the radical and those under the fl.-heads crowded ; heads 3-6, at the 
ends of the branches, subtended by shorter floral leaves, 14-16-41., 
heterogamous ; outer iny.-scales short and woolly, the rest elongate, 
glabrous, scarious, rigidly acuminate, purplish and straw-colour, hook- 
pointed. Hel. 641, Drege! in Hb. 
Has. Kaus Mt., Little N: ualand, 000 £., e/ Also between Dweka 
and Zwartbulletje, Drege! (Herb, Hk,, 3a)* ite 
A minute annual, resembling H. leptorhizum, but differing in the very obtuse 
leaves and acuminated, hook-pointed iny.-scales. The invol. is quite that of a 
Leontonyx, but the pappus is uniseriate, with slightly clavate bristles. Fem.-fl. 5-6. 
3. H. alsinoides (DC. 1. c. 169); root annual, slender, simple; stems 
many from the crown, diffuse, forked, cobwebby on the younger parts ; 
leaves sub-distant, oblong or spathulate, obtuse, tapering at base, faintly 
nerved, slightly decurrent; heads crowded-subracemose at the ends of 
the branches, sessile, about 25-30-fl. ; inv.-scales biseriate, the outer 
7-8, short, broadly oblong, somewhat cobwebby at back, the inner 
10-15, linear, glabrous, straw-colour, hyaline and obtuse at the tip. 
Has. S. Africa, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
