220 COMPOSIT# (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
23. H. cochleariforme (DC.! 1. c. 185); herbaceous, branched from 
the base, diffuse, the branches paniculate near the summit, and with 
the leaves albo-tomentose ; leaves half-clasping, linear-oblong or sub- 
_spathulate, nigro-mucronate; heads loosely panicled, pedicellate, 40—50- 
fl.; inv. campanulate, quite glabrous, loosely imbricate, its scales oblong, 
obtuse , concave-bullated (spoon-like) at the apex, concolourous, all 
rufous horn-colour, subpellucid. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, Cat. 6491. Kamiesberg, Drege! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Root branching, somewhat woody, perennial? (suffruticose, DC.) Stems 6-8 
inches high. Leaves 4-6 lines long, 1-2 1. wide. Heads terminating the spreading 
ramuli of the panicled branches, 24 lines long. Recept. areolate. 
24, H. pulchellum (FE. Mey.!) ; “stem at the base only fruticose and 
much branched, branches subsimple, cobwebbed, and white; leaves 
half-clasping, oblong, obtuse, loosely woolly, whitish ; heads 2-3 together 
at the ends of the branchlets, subtended by a few ovate, leafy bracts ; 
inv.-scales scarious, glabrous, reddish brown, ovate, very obtuse, erect, 
concave but not squarrose.” DC. l. c. p. 190. 
Has. Betw. Hexrivier and Bokkeveld, on table-land and stony hills, 3-4000 f., 
Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
Only known to me by a small specimen, with immature fl. heads, in Hb. Sond. 
25. H. rubellum (Less. Syn. 280); stem sufiruticose at base, pani- 
culately much-branched, and as well as the leaves white-woolly ; leaves 
half-clasping, obovate-oblong or spathulate, sub-acute ; heads 2-3-co- 
rymbulose at the ends of the branchlets, shortly pedicellate or sub- 
sessile, 25-30-f1., heterogamous ; invol. shortly radiating, campanulate, 
loosely imbricate, the scales squarrose, acute, the outer shorter, rufous 
or horn-colour, glabrous or cobwebbed at margin, the medial flesh- 
coloured or purplish, acute or acuminate, the innermost paler, with an 
ovate or lanceolate, spreading limb. 
Var. a. Thunbergii; inner inv.-scales with an ovate-acute spreading limb. H, 
rubellum, Less! DC. tl. ¢. p. 191. : 
Var. 8. incarnatum ; inner iny.-scales ovato-lanceolate, or lanceolate, acute or 
acuminate. H. incarnatwm, DC.! 1. ¢c. 191. 
Has. Hexrivier Mountains, Thunberg. 8. Breederiver, Drege! Blauwberg, Zey.! 
892. Cape District, Miller! W. H. H.! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
With the aspect of H. cylindricum, but differing in involucre, &c, The inner inv. 
scales vary much, in different specimens, in their comparative length and breadth, 
and except in extreme forms the two varieties above named are scarcely different. 
26. H. cylindricum (Less. Syn. 281); stem suffruticose at base, panicu- 
lately much-branched, woolly ; leaves half-clasping, oblong, sub-spathu- 
late or linear, obtuse or sub-acute, white-woolly ; heads 2-3 together 
at the ends of the branchlets, shortly pedicellate or sub-sessile, 15-29- 
flowered ; invol. cylindrical-turbinate, imbricate, the outer scales short, 
obtuse, rufous or horn-colour, cobwebbed at margin, squarrose, the inner 
longer with an ovate, sub-acute, opaque mostly cream-colour limb ; 
recept. punctate. DC.l.c.190. Also H. imbricatum, DC. 1. ¢. 191, exel. 
Syn. Less. Gn. cylindricum, Linn. Sp. 1194. Gn. paniculatum, Th.! Fl. 
Cap. 647, non Berg. Burm, Afr. t. 80, f. 3? 
