228 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
leafy below, prolonged into a one-headed peduncle; leaves half-clasping, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, recurved, complicate, glabrous above, dense- 
ly hairy beneath, ciliate and appressed at base; heads hemispherical, 
obtuse at base, radiating ; scales glabrous, silvery-white or purplish, 
the outer and medial ovato-lanceolate, acuminate, the innermost short, 
obtuse. Less. Syn. 294, DC. Ll. c. 178. Xeranth. recurvatum, Linn. f. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Zondag R., Burchell, No. 4216. Uitenhage and George, 
Ecklon! Drege! Zey.! No. 2854. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
About 1 foot high, robust, corymbosely branched. Pubescence of long and soft, 
but rather coarse hairs. Leaves 3-3} inch long, 2-3 lines wide, infolded, the upper 
surface green and glabrous. Pedunc. 2-3 inches long, hairy, with 1-2 erect bracts, 
the uppermost scarious and silvery. Heads broader than long, about 4 inch across. 
Inv. scales often purple-tinted. Pappus barbellate throughout. 
50. H. ramulosum (DC.1.c.176); “stem shrubby, branches crowded, 
subumbellate, leafy nearly to the summit, one-headed ; leaves half- 
clasping, lanceolate-linear, acute, spreading, on both sides albo-tomen- 
tose; inv. campanulate, glabrous, the scales acute, the outer shorter, 
red-brown, loosely imbricated, inner sublinear, pale, radiating.” D0C.l.c. 
Has. Eastern Districts, Burchell, No. 7530. 
‘** A much-branched, dwarf, erect shrublet. Leaves 3 lines long, 1 line wide. 
Heads small.” DC. 
51. H. stoloniferum (Thunb.! Cap. 662); stem shrubby, depressed, 
tufted, and trailing, branches fiexuous, closely leafy throughout, canes- 
cent ; leaves crowded, sessile, linear or linear-oblong, acute, recurved- 
pointed, silky-silvery, at length becoming nude above ; heads terminal, 
sessile, solitary, many-fl.; inv. campanulate, radiating, scales glabrous 
and glossy, imbricate, ovato-lanceolate, acute, the outer shorter and 
reddish-brown, the inner white, often rosy-tipped. Less. Syn. 291. 
DC. 1. ¢. 175. Xeranth. stoloniferum, Linn. f. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Witbergen, Drege! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Root deeply descending, woolly. Stems very many from the crown, some short 
and tufted, others long, trailing, flexuous, throwing up erect branchlets. ‘Leaves 
4-5 lines long, 1-1} line wide, linear, squarrose. Heads 5-6 lines diameter. Habit 
of H. retortum, but with narrower leaves and much smaller heads. Recept. narrow, 
naked. Thunberg’s original specimens are more silvery than Drege’s. 
52. H. retortum (Thunb. Cap.! 662); stems numerous, suffruticose, 
prostrate, rooting at intervals, branching, the apices erect, closely leafy 
throughout ; leaves oblong or ovate, broad-based, sessile, squarrose or 
recurved, subacute, closely silky-silvery on both sides; heads terminal, 
solitary, sessile, oblong, obtuse, very many-fl.; inv. glabrous, radiating, 
longer than the disc, scales closely imbricating, acuminate, the outer 
ovate, fulvous, the inner lanceolate, white or purple-tinted; bristles of 
the pappus numerous, subconcrete at base, barbellate at apex. Willd. Sp. 
3, 1907. DC. 1.¢.177. H. radicans, Thunb.! Cap. 663. Less. Syn. 292+ 
_ Var. 8, minus (DC.) ; smaller in all parts. 
Has. Sandy sea-shores, Table and Camp’s Bay, and Simon’s Bay. Klynriver 
mouth, Zey./ 2853. 8, Roodeberg and Egelskop, 4—5000 ft.; and mountains near 
Welgelegen, Drege/ (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 1 or several feet long, flexuous, forked or irregularly branched; the short 
fil. branches erect, leafy to the very summit. Whole plant silvery. Leaves 4-7 
lines long, 2-4 lines wide. Heads # inch long, 5—6 lines wide. 
