224 COMPOSITH (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
fl.; inv. scales glabrous, oblong-ovate, acute, imbricate, cream-white; 
recept. naked. Gnaph. diffusum, EM. in Hb. Drege. 
Has. Dutoitskloof, Drege! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems several from the crown. 10-18 inches long, simple or alternately branched, 
weak and straggling, leafy throughout, the uppermost leaves smallerand more distant. 
Leaves 1-14 inch long, $-{ inch wide. Corymb globose, almost capitate, of 6-12 
heads. This resembles H. auriculatwm, but the leaves are not auricled, and the 
recept. is quite nude. 
37. H. crassifolium (Less. Syn. 282); stem sufiruticose, diffuse or 
procumbent, alternately branched, branches spreading, white-woolly ; 
leaves sessile, obovate-oblong or spathulate, obtuse, not obviously nerved, 
thickly clothed with close, white wool ; heads many, in dense, branching, 
corymbose-cymes, subsessile, 20-2 5-fl.; inv.-scales obovate, very obtuse, 
imbricated, undulate, cream-white, not radiating. DO. l.¢c.175. Gn. 
crassifolium, Linn. Mant. 112, Th. Cap. 658. Gn. multiflorum, Th.! Hb. 
(non Fl.) Hel. leucophyllum, DC.! 1. c. 175. 
Has. Cape, Thunb.! Cape Flats and near Worcester, Ecklon! Sands near Muysen- 
rei ieee Bay, W.H.H., Dr. Wallich! C. Wright! 327, 333. (Hb. Th., D., 
we 
Stems 1-2 feet long, spreading on the ground, the ends of the branches ascending ; 
branches issuing at right angles, flexuous. Whole plant very white and softly woolly. 
Leaves 3-1 inch long, 3-4 lines wide, thick. Inflorescence sometimes very com- 
pound, each short branch bearing a dense cyme. I cannot find any specimen in Hb. 
Th. marked “ crassifolium,” but one marked “multiflorum” quite agrees with our 
plant, and is identical with H. leucophyllum, DC. 
38. H. rotundifolium (Less.! Syn. 277); suffruticose, branched from 
the crown; branches decumbent-ascending, simple, leafy, densely woolly; 
leaveshalf-clasping, roundish-obovate, very obtuse, indistinctly 3-nerved, 
densely clothed with whitish wool ; heads corymboso-capitate at the 
ends of the branches, surrounded by leaves, subsessile, 20-25-f1., homo- 
gamous; iny.-scales glabrous, white, obovate, obtuse, loosely imbricated. 
DC. 1. c. 176. Gnaph. rotundifolium, Th.! Cap. p. 660. 
Has. Cape Flats, Bergius. Draakenstenberg, Drege! (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 2-4 inches long, leafy throughout. Leaves }-1 inch long, 4 inch wide or 
more, the nerves only visible on the older and partially denuded. Glomerules an 
inch across, Nearly related to the preceding, but differing in habit, with much 
broader leaves. 
39. H. grandiflorum (Less.! Syn. 289); stems suffruticose and de- 
cumbent at base, ascending, elongate, subsimple, ending in a pedunculoid 
fl. branch, woolly; leaves crowded near the base of the stem, sessile, 
the lower obovate, the upper oval, ovate or oblong, 3—5-nerved, obtuse, 
on both sides woolly, those on the peduncle lanceolate or linear, acute, 
the uppermost bract-like; heads hemispherical, many-fl., homogamous, 
eymoso-corymbose ; iny. scales glabrous and glossy, ovate, acute or sub- 
acute, imbricated, not radiating, cream-colour. DC./ 1c. 175. @naph. 
grandiflorum, Linn. Sp. 1191, Th.! Cap. p. 659. Burm. Afr. t. 76, f. 1+ 
Gn. fruticans, Willd. Sieb. No. 202, non Linn, 
Has. Table and Devil’s Mt., Ecklon! Drege! Sieber! W.H.H., &c. (Herb. Th.! 
D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems many from the base, decumbent and nude at base, then ascending and 
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