Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT& (Harv.) 229 
§ 9. Evrcantissima. (Sp. 53-55.) 
53. H. marginatum (DC. 1. c. 180); rhizome ligneous ; stems several, 
ascending-erect, simple, 1-headed, leafy, woolly ; radical leaves oblong- 
tongue-shaped, obtuse, 3—5-nerved, the cauline linear-oblong, obtuse, 
the uppermost acuminate, all (save the youngest, which are cobwebby) 
on both sides glabrous, with a woolly margin ; heads sessile or sub- 
pedunculate, many-fl.; inv. scales searious, snow-white, glossy, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, twice as long as the disc. ee 
Has. Witbergen, 7-8000 ft., Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Root thick and woody. Stems 3-6 inches high, closely leafy, the leaves smaller 
and narrower upwards. Root leaves t-14 inch long, 3-5 lines wide. Pappus rough, 
Recept. naked, flat. 
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54. H. adenocarpum (DC. 1.c. 180) ; stem herbaceous, erect, simple 
or corymbosely branched; branches virgate, loosely woolly and glandu- 
lar; radical leaves oval or oblong, obtuse, sessile, loosely woolly, caul- 
ine sessile, oval-oblong or linear-oblong, densely glandular and often 
very woolly, the uppermost narrower, acuminate; corymb loosely pani- 
cled ; heads campanulate, radiate, very many-fl.; invol. scales shining, 
silvery-white or rosy, lanceolate, acuminate, much longer than the disc; 
achenes glandular. ; 
Has. Common near Natal, from the sea level ( Drege !) to 2~3000 feet, Plant, 
Gueinzius, Grant, Sutherland, Gerr. § M‘K. No. 267, &c. Orange Free State, 7. 
_ Cooper, 1121. (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, more woolly and branching than H. elegantissimum, with 
shorter and broader radical leaves and more lanceolate invol. scales. Invol. mostly 
rosy-purple externally. 
55. H. elegantissimum (DC. |. c. 179); stem herbaceous, erect, simple, 
terete, softly hairy below, glandular-pubescent upward ; radical leaves 
oval-oblong, thin, narrowed to the base, cobwebby-villous, becoming 
nude on the upper surface ; cauline sessile, eared at base and stem- 
clasping, lanceolate-oblong, acute or acuminate, glandularly pubescent ; 
corymb compound, loosely branched; heads camp te, radiate, very 
many-fl. ; inv. scales shining, silvery-white on the outer ray, oblongo- 
lanceolate, acute, longer than the dis 
Hap. Witbergen, 5-6000 ft., Drege! Basutuland, 7. Cooper/ 721. (Herb. Hk., 
D., Sd. - 
hat 1-2 feet high. Radical leaves numerous, 24-3 inches long, 1 inch wide ; 
cauline 14-2 inches long, } inch wide, green. Recept. naked, 4-5 linesdiam. FI. 
2-300 ina head. Inv. 3 inch across. 
B. DASYLEPIDEA. (§ 10.) 
. § 10. Errocernana. (Sp. 56-61.) 
56. H. populifolium (DC.! 1. c. 180); a shrub; branches tomentose- 
canescent ; leaves on long petioles, cordate at base, ovate or ovato- 
subrotund, acute or obtuse, 5~7- or many-nerved at base, cobwebby- 
canescent above, becoming bare, densely tomentose and white beneath ; 
panicles terminal and axillary, decompound, divaricately much-branched; 
heads at the ends of its divisions in clusters of 3-5, subsessile, ovate, 
12-16-fl.; inv. scales in few rows, the outer dorsally tomentose, the 
inner whitish, glabrous, obtuse, squarrose ; recept. honey-combed. 
