Helichrysum. ] COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 219 
erect, simple, short ; branches and leaves white-woolly ; leaves obovate 
or oval, narrowed to the base, flat, obtuse, (not obviously) 3-nerved ; 
heads in a loosely branched, terminal, corymbose-cyme, subpedicellate, 
20-25-fl.; inv. campanulate, radiating, outer scales woolly, inner elon- 
gate, linear, spreading, milk-white, obtuse or subacute ; recept. nude, 
areolate. 
Has. Rovelo Hills, Natal, 7o0o f., Dr. Sutherland/ Basutu Land, 7. ‘ooper 
709. (Herb. Hook. D.) s icorcesateed 
Stems woody, robust, but very short, multifid, throwing up many 1-2 inches lon. 
erect branchlets, which form a leafy tuft or cushion, Flowertny Tennchiad 2-3 tithes 
long, rising from the tuft. Leaves 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines wide. The habit is 
quite peculiar, or most like that of H. Ernestianum (which greatly differs in 
foliage) ; the fl. heads are not unlike those of H. serpyllifolium, but rather larger, 
Mr. Cooper's specimens, probably from a lower elevation, are much more luxuriant 
than Dr. Sutherland's, with fl. branches 8-10 inches long, and leaves }~3 inch long, 
3-4 lines wide, with the 3 nerves sometimes a little obvious through the dense wool. 
Except in luxuriance they do not differ. 
20. H. Ernestianum (DC. I. c. 173); dwarf, tufted; stems sparingly 
leafy, simple, scarcely twice as long as the radical leaves; leaves lan- 
ceolate-linear, thick, subobtuse, clothed with very close-lying tomentum, 
nerveless, erect, the radical longer and broader, cauline few, acute ; 
heads in a terminal, crowded corymb, pedicellate; “outer iny.-scales 
woolly, inner linear-oblong, white, subobtuse,” 
Has. Camdebo-berg, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
Rad. leaves 1-1} in. long, 2—3 lines wide, narrowed to the base, obtuse or subacute. 
Stem 2-3 inches high, scape-like, with a few small, closely pressed leaves, and a 
terminal corymb. Flowers not seen by me. Is not this related to H. chionospherum? 
21. H. sessile(DC.1.¢.173); shrubby, dwarf,robust, branching, densely 
tufted; branches crowded, clothed with old, persistent, withered leaves, 
the apices stellately leafy ; leaves broadly linear, thick, subacute, clothed 
with close-lying tomentum ; heads sessile at the ends of the leafy 
branches, solitary ; inv.-scales scarious, white, ovato-lanceolate. 
Has. Sneeuweberg, Drege! Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.) 
A very dwarf, but stout, intricately-branched bush ; old branches denuded; the 
younger flexuous, imbricated with refiexed, withered leaves, Leaves at and near 
the apices crowded, or rosulate, 37-1 inch long, 1-14 line wide. Fl. not seen by me. 
§$ 4. Iwpricata, (Sp. 22-28.) 
22. H. fastigiatum (Harv.); stem sufiruticose at base, depressed, 
paniculately much branched, fastigiate, and with the leaves white-woolly; 
leaves half-clasping, shortly obovate-oblong or narrow-oblong, subacute, 
nigro-mucronate ; heads 2-4 at the ends of the branchlets, corymbulose, 
pedicellate, 10-12-fl.; invol. cylindrical, not radiating, imbricate, inv.- 
scales oblong, very obtuse, horn-colour or rufescent, squarrose, scarious, 
subpellucid, with bullated tips, the innermost similar. 
Has. Near Riy. Zonder Ende and Buffeljagd River, Zey./ No. 2859. Zwarteberg, 
Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
Excessively branched, subdichotomous, forming depressed, roundish tufts, 3-4 
inches high and 6-8 in diameter, with circumscribed, floriferous apices. Leaves 3-5 
lines long, 1-2 lines wide. Heads 1} line long, the scales either brownish horn- 
colour or some of them rosy. Allied to H. cochleariforme, but with very much 
smaller fi. heads and a different habit. 
