Helichrysum. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 233 
woody, perennial? Root-leaves 4-8 inches long ; cauline 14-3 inches, mostly wool- 
margined. Heads very showy, generally larger than in H. fetidum, often 1-1} inch 
across, but in vars, e, and ¢. much smaller, {-Z in. Scales very brilliant, deep yellow. 
67. H. lanatum (Harv.); root woody; stems erect, subsimple, leafy 
throughout, and, as well as the leaves, thickly coated with long, white, 
interwoven woolly hairs; leaves sessile, obovate, callous-mucronate, 
beneath the wool penninerved, the upper ones narrower and oblong or 
elliptical; corymb subpedunculate, much branched, many-headed, with 
woolly branches; heads subsessile, 12-15-fl.; invol. campanulate, 3—-4- 
seriate, the scales loosely imbricated, outer and inner of nearly equal 
size, all glabrous and glossy, lanceolate-acuminate, bright yellow; re- 
cept. naked, narrow. 
Has. Sand River, Burke § Zeyher! Zey.! 878. (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Root thick and woody. Stems 1 or more, 12—1§ inches high, densely leafy below, 
more laxly upwards, ending in a subpedunculate, spreading, corymbose cyme. All 
parts save the involucres very thickly white-woolly. Lower leaves 14-2 inches long, 
1 inch wide, upper 1~1} inch long, }-4 inch wide. Inflorescence 2-4 inches across. 
Inv. scales 3~4 lines long, 3 line wide. Recept. quite naked. Pappus rough. Achenes 
granulated. A very handsome and distinct species. 
68. H. argyrophyllum (DC. 1. c. 186); stem suffruticose at base, dif- 
fuse, branches ascending, and as well as the leaves coated with a silvery- 
white, densely interwoven, somewhat glossy, felted indument ; leaves 
obovate or obovate-spathulate, hook-pointed, much attenuated to the 
base (3-nerved, DC), the uppermost distant and narrow; corymb pe- 
dunculate, loosely few-headed ; heads on long, 1-2 bracteated pedicels, 
many-fl., stellato-campanulate; invol. imbricate, radiating, the outer 
scales short, very thinly cobwebby, fulvous, the rest oblong or oblongo- 
lanceolate, glabrous, glossy, opaque, yellow, the innermost longer than 
the disc, acute. ’ 
Stasis Sadr Soba, tne beceoniacen deamely nlp ino 
vies : 
the fertile 6-12 inches cae amide apkad eo pentane Reef they Suid 
into 4-5 branchlets, each of which bears a head. ‘Leaves 1-11 inch long, 3-4 lines 
wide, the narrowed portion twice as long as the broad extremity. Heads 6-7 lines 
diameter, lemon-yellow. : 
69. H. squamosum (Th.! Cap. 661) ; suffruticose at base, erect or 
ascending, branches virgate, closely leafy to the summit, woolly ; lower 
leaves oblong, medial and upper linear-subulate, with strongly revolute 
margins, sordidly woolly, acute, mucronate, at length often nude and 
then scabrous above, the uppermost often tipped with a membranous 
scale; heads sessile, very many-flowered; inv. ovate-oblong, radiating, 
its scales lustrous, scarious, imbricating, oblong-lanceolate, acute, ful- 
vous-yellow. Less. Syn.p, 286. DC.l.c. 185. H.splendens, Bot. Mag. 
t.1773. H. herbaceum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 487. Helipterum ferrugineum, 
DC. l. c. 412 (excl. syn.). 
Has. Cape, Thund.! Uitenhage and Albany, frequent, E. Z.! Drege! Sir C. Bun- 
bury ! &c.; Slaagekraal, Burke! Natal, Gueinzius! Plant! (Hb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
12-18 inches high, tufted ; stems simple, or corymbosely branched, the branches 
virgate, 1-headed. Leaves about uncial, the lower ones sometimes 4~5 lines wide, 
the rest 1-2 lines wide, erect or squarrose, several of those near the heads tipped 
