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Helichrysum. | COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 221 
Has. Western Districts. Worcester, Cl. William, and Swellendam, Eck.! Zey.! 
891. Waterfall, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe/ (Herb. Th., Sd., Hk., D.) 
Very variable in foliage and in the amount of pubescence. Smaller specimens 
are herbaceous, 6-8 inches high, larger distinctly ligneous 1-14 foot high. Leayes 
1-14 inch long, 2-5 lines wide. Inner inv. scales at first erect, then spreading, 
always paler in colour than the outer, mostly creamy-white, more rarely pale horn- 
colour. All the specimens I have seen of H. imbricatum DC. (vars. B, y, and 9) 
belong to this species ; his sp. char. partly applies to this, and partly to the true H. 
imbricatum, Less. 
27. H. imbricatum (Less. Syn. 279, non DC.); stem suffruticose at 
base, paniculately much-branched, as well as the leaves white-woolly ; 
leaves half-clasping, oblongo-obovate or spathulate, sub-acute ; heads 
solitary or 2-3 together at the ends of the branchlets, pedicellate, 
50—60-f1., heterogamous ; invol. shortly radiating, globose, imbricate, 
the outer scales rufous or horn-colour, cobwebbed at margin, glossy, 
concave-bullated, rounded and very obtuse, the innermost with a spoon- 
shaped, spreading, snow-white, obtuse limb. Guz. imbricatum, Linn. 
Sp. 1195, fide Less. Also G. discolorum? Linn. Burm. Afr. t. 80, f. 2. 
Has. Rietvalley, Mundt § Maire. Cape Flats, Dr. Pappe/ Kuilsriver, Zey.! 870. 
(Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Root and base of stems distinctly ligneous. Stems about a foot high, paniculately 
branched from the base, the branches spreading. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 2-3 lines 
wide above, tapering towards the broad and clasping base. Heads on longish, laxly 
leafy pedicels, 3 lines long and nearly as wide. Female-fl. 15-20; herm. fl. 35-40. 
28. H. stellatum (Less.! Syn. 279); suffruticose, erect, branched from , * 
the base, woolly ; leaves half-clasping, narrowed above the base, oblong- ‘ 
linear, acute, on both sides loosely woolly; heads roundish-ovate homoga- 
mous, many-fl., corymbose; invol. scales imbricated in many rows, gla- =) (9 
brous, glossy, appressed, ovate, acute, rosy or fulvous at base, white- 
tipped, the innermost clawed, with an oval limb. DGC. 1. c. 174, Gnaph. 
stellatum, Linn. Sp. 1198. Gn. discolorum and G. helianthemifolium, Th. ! 
Cap, 650. Gn. pyramidale, Berg., Gn. fragrans, Sieb. No. 250. Zey. / 2858 
and 869. 
Var. 8. globiferum; involucres globose, the scales loosely imbricated, concave, 
obtuse or the innermost only subacute; leaves densely woolly, obovato-spathulat 
Has. Western. Districts, frequent. 8. Brederivier, Port Beaufort, Mundt.! (Herb. 
add. 5 SEK, Od: 
oe at sts corymbosely branched plant, woody at base, about 1 foot high. 
Leaves 1 inch long, 2-3 lines wide, equally distributed, callous-pointed. Heads 3 lines 
diameter, the inner scales white, the outer either rosy or fulvous, pedicellate. 
§ 5. Opvatiata. (Sp. 29-35.) 
29. H. chionospherum (DC.! 1.c. 174) ; suffruticose, depressed, tufted, 
much branched ; branches short, ascending, woolly-canescent ; leaves 
sessile, linear-oblong or spathulate, obtuse or subacute, on both sides 
woolly-canescent, 3—5-nerved, the nerves parallel, raised on the under- 
side; heads terminal, 1-4, pedicellate, corymbulose, globose, very many 
flowered ; inv. scales loosely imbricated, glabrous and glossy, snow-white, 
broadly oblong, obtuse or subacute. 
Has. Stormberg, and Witberg, Drege! Caffraria, Ecklon! Wolf Kop, Burke! 
Zwartkey and Klipplaat Riv., Zey./873. (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
