Helichrysum.] COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 215 
Stems (fide DC.) 3-4 inches long: I have seen but a branch. Leaves 4-6 lines 
long, 1-2 wide. Old involucres stellately patent ; the inner scales twice as long, 
and half as broad as the outer. 
4. H. micropoides (DC. 1. c. 170); root annual, slender, simple ; stems 
many from the crown, sparingly branched, glabrate below, cobwebby 
above ; leaves scattered, obovate-oblong or spathulate, obtuse, tapering 
at base, thinly woolly, the uppermost close under the crowded, sessile, 
to-fl. heads; inv. scales pale straw-colour, biseriate, linear, the outer 
woolly, the inner glabrate, subacute. 
Has. Nieuweveld, betw. Zakrivier’spoort and Sionfnt., 3-4000f., Drege! (Hb. Sd.) 
Only known to me by an imperfect specimen in Hb. Sd. 
5. H. filagineum (DC.! l.c. 170); root annual, simple; stem branched 
from the base; branches erecto-patent, angularly bent, cobwebby; leaves 
linear, obtuse, scarcely narrowed at base, on both sides woolly, whitish ; 
heads 2-4, in sessile tufts, opposite the leaves or ending the branches, 
subtended by floral leaves, about 5-8 flowered; inv. scales biseriate, 
pale straw-colour, the outer short, acuminate, inner linear, obtuse, thinly 
cobwebbed at back. ao 
Has. Cape, Drege! Springbokkeel, Zeyher! (Herb. Sond., D.) 
A slender, divaricately branched, rigid annual, 2-4 inches high. Leaves nearly 
4 inch long, about 1 line wide. Lateral tufts of heads quite sessile. Inner inv. 
scales twice as long as the outer.—A distinctly marked little species. 
6. H. capillaceum (Less.! Syn.275); root annual, slender ; stem slen- 
der, diffusely much branched or sub-erect, thinly cobwebby or glabrous ; 
leaves scattered, obovate or ovate, petioled, mucronate, thinly membra- 
nous, cobwebby or woolly, at length more or less glabrous above; heads 
pedicellate, racemose or corymbulose, or axillary, about 20-25 fl., hetero- 
gamous, inv. biseriate, cylindrical, the outer scales short, inner linear, 
whitish, obtuse, glabrous, at length widely spreading. DC./ lc. 170. 
Gnaph. capiliaceum, Th.! Cap. 660. 
- Has. Mountains, & < Z Natal, 
5 ot set 2 ey Se common. Mohlamba range, Natal 
Very variable in size; stems 2-12 inches long, the larger forms alternately much 
branched, weak and often interwoven, Leaves distinctly petiolate, at first white on 
both sides, then green and naked above, 3-10 lines long, 2-8 lines wide. Heads 
small, almost always pedicellate; the inv. scales a dull, whitish-horn colour. 
7. H. herniarioides (DC. 1. c. 170); root annual, slender, simple ; 
stem very short, branched from the base ; branches many, diffuse, simple, 
cobwebby; leaves oblong or obovate, obtuse, tapering much at base, 
cobwebby, afterwards somewhat naked ; heads crowded in terminal 
glomerules, subtended by a few leaves, 25-40 fl. ; inv.-scales loosely 
imbricate, the outermost woolly, with narrow, short points, the rest 
ovate-oblong, broad, radiating, snow-white, obtuse. 
Has. Betw. Roggeveld and the Gariep, Burchell, Cat. 1582. Zilverfontein, 
Drege ! Springbokkeel, Zeyher! (Herb. Hk , D., Sd.) 
Central stem erect, about an inch high, ending in a cluster of fl-heads ; branches 
from near its base, 2-4 inches long, nearly prostrate, each ending in a similar cluster. 
Inyv.-scales conspicuously white, except the outer ones which are thinner and some- 
what straw-coloured or occasionally tawny. 
