226 COMPOSIT (Harv.) | Helichrysum. 
1-2 feet high. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 1-2 lines wide, green, either glabrous or 
thinly clothed with long, silky, loose, yellowish hairs. Inv. scales glossy, either 
pure white or primrose colour. Pedicels short, densely hairy. Readily known from 
all forms of H. paniculatum by the want of silvery hairs. 
43. H. paniculatum (Th. Cap. 661); stem shrubby, erect, corymbosely 
branched, the virgate branches and leaves silky-canescent; leaves ses- 
sile, linear-lanceolate, or subulate, rigid, much acuminate, mucronate, 
3-nerved, erecto-patent, flattish or concave ; heads corymbose or co- 
rymbo-cymose, on long pedicels ; inv. hemispherical, shortly radiating, 
the scales glabrous, loosely imbricated, ovato-lanceolate, acute or acu- 
minate, either snow-white, pale-citron, or purple, innermost linear. 
Less. Syn. p.294. DC. 1. c. 179. Xeranth. paniculatum, Linn. Burm. t. 
67, f 1. 
Var. 8, intermedium ; leaves shorter and broader; heads globose, scarcely radi- 
ating ; outer scales acute, inner obtuse. H. intermedium, Less, Syn. 295, DC. l. ¢. 179. 
Var. y, angustifolium ; leaves subulate ; inv. scales very acute. 
Has. Districts of Swellendam and George, common. ~, Kardow and Pikeneers- 
kloof, Zey./ 868. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
1-2 feet high, robust or slender. Leaves very variable in breadth, sometimes a8 
narrow as in H. mucronatum; sometimes 1-2 lines wide. Infl. either simply corym- 
bose, or the pedicels branching, each bearing 2-3 heads. Inv. scales varying much 
in shape, sometimes taper-pointed, mostly acute ; the innermost linear, either acute 
or obtuse. Though generally known from H. mucronatum by its broader leaves, 
acute inv. scales, and larger fl. heads, specimens occur which seem to connect the 
extreme forms, as our vars. 8. and +. 
44. H. mucronatum (Less.! Syn. 295); stem shrubby, erect, corym- 
bosely branched ; branches and leaves silky-canescent; leaves sessile, 
linear-subulate, rigid, mucronate, erecto-patent ; pedicels several, from 
the upper axils, corymbose, 1-headed ; heads hemispherical, not radia- 
ting ; scales glabrous, loosely imbricated, broadly ovate, short, obtuse, 
or subacute, DC. /.¢. 178. Gn. mucronatum, Berg. Cap. 269. Burm. 
Aft. t. 66, f. 3. 
Var. a. citreum ; invol. pale-lemon or sulph. coloured. 
Var. £8. niveum (DC.) ; inv. snow-white. 
Has. Tradow, Mundt § Maire. Caledon, Eckl./ 8. Groote Howhoek, Zey.! 2856. 
Zwarteberg, Pappe! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
About a foot high, closely leafy, much branched. Leaves $-1 inch long, % line 
diam., tipped with a long, slender mucro. Pedicels 1-2 inches long, slender, naked. 
Heads 4 lines across ; fl. yellow. Very like H. paniculatum in miniature, but the 
leaves are narrower, heads smaller, and inv. scales shorter and blunter, &c. Perhaps 
@ mere variety. 
45. H. chlorochrysum (DC. 1. c.179); stem shrubby, erect, branched ; 
branches densely leafy to the summit; leaves sessile, broadly ovate or 
ovato-lanceolate, imbricated, subsquarrose, acuminate, several nerved, 
closely silky-canescent; heads corymbose, ovate or subglobose; invol. 
scarcely radiating, the scales ovate-acute, the innermost shorter, obtuse, 
pale-lemon coloured (greenish when dry). 
Has. Bontebock’sjagt, at Karsrivier, Z. H. Beil, in Hb. Eckl. (Herb. Sond.) 
1-2-f. high, robust. Leaves 4-3 inch long, 3-5 lines wide, closely many nerved — 
or striate, when the copious indument has been removed. Heads on short woolly” 
pedicels, 4-5 lines diameter. The leaves resemble those of a Priesileya in shape. 
