Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 223 
divided, loosely woolly, becoming glabrate ; leaves sessile, oblong or 
lance.-oblong, obtuse or acute, loosely woolly ; heads several, densely 
aggregated (or capitate) at the ends of the branches, sessile, surrounded 
by several woolly leaves, 20-2 5-fl., homogamous ; inv. scales pluriseriate, 
lanceolate-acuminate, squarrose and spreading, glabrous and glossy, 
scarious, silvery-white. 
ne Ste Bay, Forbes! Capt. Speke! Near Port Natal, Mr. Hewitson! (Hb. 
ook., D. 
When it first begins to flower (the state described by De Candolle?) this has a 
slender, simple root, herbaceous, simple branches, 3-4 inches long, each ending in 
a globose cluster of fl. heads ; afterwards the branches become distinctly woody, 
12-15 inches long, simple to beyond their middle, then alternately much branched, 
divergent, each branchlet ending in a cluster of heads. Leaves 7-1 inch long (the 
lower ones 13 inch), 2-4 lines wide, variably woolly. Heads 12 or more in a tuft, 
distinctly radiating. If this be not the same as De Candolle’s plant (a native of 
Madagascar) it is at least very closely related to it. Capt. Speke found it to be 
“common” at Delagoa Bay. The habit is that of H. Gariepinum, but the heads are 
fewer-flowered, and the leaves quite sessile. Mr. Hewitson’s specimens are very 
woolly, with broad, subacuminate leaves. 
34. H. gariepinum (DC. 1. c. 174); half-herbaceous, branched from 
the base, diffuse or decumbent, flexuous, slender, cobwebby ; leaves 
oval or oblong, tapering much at base, subpetiolate, obtuse or acute, 
thinnish, nerved, loosely woolly, the older becoming nude ; heads ovato- 
globose, many-fl., two or more at the ends of the branches, subsessile, 
surrounded by leaves ; outer inv. scales few, woolly, narrow, inner im- 
bricated in many rows, glabrous and glossy, oblong or lanceolate, acute, 
white or rosy. 
Has. Little Namaqualand, near the Gariep, Drege!, A. Wyley! (Herb. D., Hk. Sd. 
Root ligneous, perennial. Stems many from the crown, 6-12 inches long, cobwebby 
at length glabrous, alternately branched, Leaves nearly uncial, 3-4 lines wide, the 
narrower ones spathulate. Heads 2 lines diameter; 40-50 fl., inv. scales some- 
times rosy-purple. 
35. H. Catipes (Harv.); stem suffruticose, many-branched from the 
base, decumbent, tufted; branches ascending, simple, slender, woolly, 
the flowering ones naked toward the summit and laxly leafy; lower 
leaves obovate-oblong, upper oblong, nigro-mucronate, all loosely woolly 
on both sides, more copiously beneath ; heads 6-9, sessile, in a subglobose 
tuft, subtended by 4-5, nigro-cuspidate floral-leaves, 12-15 fl., outer 
inv. scales woolly, inner with an obovate, glabrous, very obtuse, radiating 
apex; pappus barbellate. Hriosphera Catipes, DC.! 1. c. 167. 
Has. On the Zeederberg, Drege! (Herb. Sond.) 
Barren stems about 2, fertile, 4-5 inches long. Leaves 4-5 lines long, 2 lines wide. 
The habit, as De Candolle observes, is not unlike that of Antennaria dioica. Heads 
2-24 lines long; the inner inv. scales distinctly radiating and broad tipped. 
-  § 6. SpHz#rocerHans. (Sp. 36-40.) 
36. H. diffusum (DC. 1. c. 175) ; stems scarcely suffruticose at base, 
slender, elongate, sparingly branched, diffuse or ascending, white-woolly; 
leaves sessile, broadly oval or oblong, broad-based, mucronate, one- 
nerved, on both sides woolly and white; heads several, in a dense, 
sub-pedunculate, terminal corymb or fascicle, shortly pedicellate, many 
