216 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
8. H. expansum (Less.! Syn. 276); root annual, simple ; stem her- 
baceous, diffusely branched, woolly; leaves oblong, spathulate or nearly 
linear, sessile, narrowed at base, nigro-mucronate, on both sides woolly ; 
heads homogamous, 12—20-fl., corymboso-paniculate or crowded at the 
ends of short branches, pedicellate or subsessile ; inv. imbricate, the 
outer scales short, blunt, thinly cobwebby, pale horn-colour, the inner 
snow-white, opaque, broadly-oblong, very obtuse, glabrous, DC. J. ¢. 
170. Gnaph. paniculatum, Berg. Cap. p. 256, non Th. Gnaph. notatum, 
Th.! Cap. 653. Gn. expansum, Th.! Cap. 651. Gn. achilleoides, Sieb. 
Fl. Cap. 201. Heb. Zey.! 2893. 
Has. Mountain sides, throughout the Colony. (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
The largest and strongest of the annual species. Stems 8-18 inches long, some- 
times erect and subsimple, sometimes breaking at base into very many diffuse branches. 
Leaves very variable in comparative length and breadth, the lowest largest. Lower 
leaves often 13-2 inches long, 4-6 lines wide ; upper }—1 inch long, broad or narrow. 
Inner iny.-scales remarkably white. 
§ 2. Eritcmronia. (Sp. 9-16.) 
9. H, spiciforme (DC. 1. c. 171); “stem suffruticose, erect, branched 
at top; branches bearing lateral, subsessile fl.-heads arranged as in a 
spike ; leaves sessile, linear, obtuse, with revolute margins, densely 
woolly ; outer inv.-scales leaf-like, inner lengthened into a scarious, 
lanceolate, acuminate limb.” DC. 7. ¢. 
Has, Beyond the Gariep, Burchell, Cat. 2247. 
“ A suffrutex, 1-14 f. high, Leaves 4 lines long, 1 line wide. Heads about 30 
in the spike.” 
10. H. cerastioides (DC. 1. c. 171); “stem suffruticose, branches 
tomentose, bearing at the summit a solitary, sessile capitulum sur- 
rounded by leaves ; leaves sessile, lanceolate-linear, with sub-revolute 
margins, densely woolly; outer inv.-scales leaf-like, inner lengthened 
into a scarious, lanceolate, acuminate limb.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Beyond the Gariep, near Litaku, Burchell, Cat. No. 2225. 
“ Leaves nearly as in Cerast. tomentosum, but shorter and alternate. Scales of 
the invol. sometimes sub-rufescent.” DC. 
11. H. paronychioides (DC. 1. c. 171); “stem shrubby, procumbent, 
much-branched, twigs leafy to the very summit; leaves sessile, linear, 
with sub-revolute margins, sub-acute, glabrous (as are the branches) ; 
heads solitary, terminal on the branches and twigs, 12-fl.; inv.-scales 
nearly all scarious, lengthened into a lanceolate, subacuminate limb.” 
DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Regions beyond the Gariep, Burchell, Cat. No. 2234. 
“* Remarkable for its glabrous foliage, but with fl.-heads very similar to the pre- 
ceding. Leaves 2 lines long.” DC. 
12. H. oxybelium (DC. 1. c. 171); shrubby, rigid, divaricately much- 
branched ; branches glandularly scabrid, becoming glabrous, twigs sub- 
spinescent; leaves linear or lance-linear, sessile, acute, one-nerved, with 
sub-reyolute margins,” glandularly-scaberulous, the very young ones 
thinly cobwebby, the uppermost subtending the fl.-heads; fi-heads 
terminal, solitary, 15-20fl. ; outer inv.-scales short, leaf-like, inner ob- 
long, acuminate, whitish or purplish. 
