234 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
with a polished scale. Wool dirty whitish or fulvous. Pappus bristle-shaped, rough 
or serrulate. This has quite the habit of a Helipterum, but wants the plumose pap- 
pus. All Ecklon’s and Drege’s specimens of “ Hel. ferrugineum” that I have seen, 
belong to this species, ; 
§ 12. SrozcHapina, (Sp. 70-80.) 
70, H. acutatum (DC.! 1. c. 186); “stem erect, simple, cobwebby, 
the younger leaves cobwebby, at length on both sides rough with 
scattered, thick, glandular bristles,’ the lower leaves oval-oblong, 
penninerved, acute, tapering at base into a longish petiole, “the upper 
linear-elongate, much-acuminate; corymb compound, fastigiate ; heads 
8—12-f1.; inv. oblong, its scales lanceolate, acuminate, the outer dorsally 
woolly, the rest bright-yellow, shining.” DC. /. c. 
Has. Between Omtendo and Omsamculo, on Grass-hills, under 500 feet, Drege! 
(Herb. Sond.) 
One of the lower leaves and a few unopened fl. heads only seen by me. The leaf 
has a petiole about 3 inches long, and an ovato-lanceolate lamina 44 inches long, 
24 inches wide, thinly cobwebby and rough with raised, glandular points. Fi. heads 
about 2 lines long, 1 line wide. The Aabit seems to be that of § 13, Plantaginea; 
but DC. says the recept. is “ scarcely honey-combed.” 
71, H. splendidum (Less.! Syn. 286); stem shrubby or suffruticose, 
branches virgate, woolly; leaves sessile, linear or linear-oblong, with 
revolute margins, nigro-mucronate, on both sides white-woolly ; heads 
subglobose, many-flowered, heterogamous, in densely-crowded, sub- 
globose cymes, short pedicelled ; inv. woolly at base, all the scales bright 
yellow, shining, opaque, oblong, obtuse, subconcave, scarcely radiant. 
DC.11.¢. 185. Gn. splendidum, Th.! Cap. 648. Gn. strictum, Link, 
Var. 8. xanthinum; more slender, with laxer, less woolly leaves. H. xanthinwm, 
DC! 1. ¢. 185. 
Var. y. montanum ; dwarf, depressed and tufted; branches erect, virgate; leaves 
crowded, broadish, the lower oblong-subspathulate, all very woolly. H. montanwm, 
DC.! 1, ¢. 186, 
Has. Cape, Thunb.! Eastern Districts, Burchell, 5047. Winterberg, Mrs. F. W. 
Barber, 239. Assagaysbosch, on mountains near Goerreshoogte, Mundt/ Var. B. 
Zwarte, Storm, and Witberg, and on Sneeuweberg, Drege! Var. y. Witberg and 
ee oe 6—-7000 ft., Drege! Spitzkop, Somerset, Dr. Atherstone! (Herb. Th., 
Stems 2-5 feet high; in y. 6-8 inches, closely or laxly leafy. Leaves f-14 inch 
long, 2-3 lines wide, the lowest flattish, all the rest with strongly reflexed edges. 
Cymes 1-14 inch diam. Invol. very bright. I find filiform female fl. in all the vars. 
72, H. rutilans (Less.! Syn. 275); stem herbaceous (annual), erect, 
simple or divided near the base into many simple branches, albo- 
tomentose; leaves half-clasping, spathulate, nigro-mucronate, spreading, 
on both sides densely albo-tomentose ; heads in dense, branching, 
corymbose cymes, homogamous, subsessile; invol. cylindrical, loosely 
woolly at base, its scales opaque, imbricate, the outer shorter, oblong, 
the inner clawed, broadly obovate, very obtuse, undulate, bright-yellow- 
DC. 1. ¢. 185. Gnaph. rutilans, Linn, Sp. 1291. Th. Cap. p. 630. Gm. 
odoratum, Th.! Cap. 654, excl. syn. 
Has. Sandy chiefly in the Western Districts. (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A white-woolly annual, 10-15 inches high, with slender, subsimple roots. Leaves 
