Helichrysum. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 225 
densely leafy, and ending ina more or less pedunculoid fi. branch, bearing depauper- 
ated leaves or bracts. Lower leaves 3-4 inches long, 2-2} inches wide. Cymes 
branching, about 2 inches across. The specific name “ grandijflorum” is peculiarly 
ill-chosen : it is the leaves, not the fl. heads, which are large. FI. heads about 3 
lines diam. 
40. H. fruticans (Less.! Syn. 288); stem shrubby, robust, erect, 
sub-simple or branching, woolly, closely leafy below, ending in a laxly 
leafy, pedunculoid fl.-branch ; leaves half-clasping, elliptical or oblong, 
nigro-mucronate, 3-5-nerved, above cobwebby becoming nude, beneath 
densely woolly and white; heads in a much-branched, corymbose cyme, 
homogamous, many-fl., pedicellate ; inv. scales glabrous and glossy, 
loosely imbricating, snow-white, broadly ovate or oblong, sub-acute or 
obtuse. DC. l.¢. 175. Gnaph. fruticans, Iinn. Mant. 282. Bot. Mag. 
t. 1802. <Astelma fruticans, Bot. Reg. t. 726. Sieb. No. 13. Gn. grandi- 
Jlorum, Willd. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 489. Gn. fruticans and Gn. petiolatum 
Th.! Cap. 659. and 660. : 
ioe oe of Table Mountain, Thunb.! EB. § Z.! W. H. H., Gc. (Herb. Th.! 
Stem robust, 3-4 feet high, denuded of leaves below, densely leafy above to within 
6-12 inches of the summit, where the laxly leafy or naked flowering portion starts. 
Leaves 2-24 inches long, 1-14 inch wide, green above, spreading. Cyme 4—5 inches 
across ; each head 5-6 lines diam. Scales radiating.—A much handsomer plant 
than H. grandiflorum, with which it has been confounded. i 
41. H. felinum (Less.! Syn. 287); stem erect, shrubby ; branches 
elongate, leafy, loosely tomentose ; leaves broad-based, sessile, spreading 
or deflexed, varying from ovato-lanceolate to lanceolate-linear, acuminate, 
rigid, rugose and either naked or woolly above, albo-tomentose beneath ; 
heads globose, homogamous, many-fl., loosely or densely corymbose or 
glomerate ; inv. globose, its scales glabrous, white or pink, loosely im- 
bricate, obtuse, broad. DC. l.c. 176. Gn. felinum and G. serratum, Th.! 
Cap. 648 and 659. Gn. congestum and G, discolorum, Willd. 
oe Systane aay a the Eastern Districts, ee Ce D., ee se 
varia) ut easily recognised species, 2— igh, not muc! 
cian 1-2 f. long. Leaves 4-1-13-2 Ait ‘sas, atk wide, the 
upper surface when young woolly, at length naked, and then either glabrous or 
densely papillate-scabrous, mostly wrinkled. Branches either leafy to the summit, 
or more commonly ending in laxly leafy peduncles. Heads commonly crowded in 
a globose tuft, but sometimes cymose or loosely panicled. DC. enumerates 6 
varieties. 
§ 7. Panicunata. (Sp. 42-47.) 
42. H. striatum (Th.! Cap. p. 179); stem shrubby, erect, branched, 
glabrous or villous, leafy to the summit; leaves sessile, lanceolate-subu- 
late, channelled, very acute, rigid, the younger villous (but not canescent), 
the older mostly glabrous ; heads corymbose, on villous pedicels ; inv. 
ovate, radiating, the scales ovato-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the 
innermost narrow, short, obtuse. Less. Syn. 296. DC. l. c. 179. 
Xeranth. rigidum, Andr. Rep. t. 387. 
Van. §. Villosum (DC.); branches and leaves persistently villous. 
» Has. Districts of Uitenhage, Albany, and Somerset, Ecklon! Drege! Zey.! &c. 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
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