Helichrysum.] COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 235 
subdistant, 1-14 inch long, 2-4 lines wide near the summit, narrowed toward the 
base. Inf. generally much-branched. Involucral-scales rigid, bright-golden yellow. 
73. H. adscendens (Less.! Syn. 274); stem herbaceous (perennial), 
ascending, simple, leafy at base, laxly leafy upwards; lower leaves spa- 
thulate, obtuse, very much attenuated towards the half-clasping base, 
upper linear, acute, all thinly and loosely woolly on both sides, one- 
nerved ; heads subglobose, many-fl., in terminal, branching, corymbose 
cymes, on woolly pedicels; inv. campanulate, loosely imbrieated, gla- 
brous, all the scales pale-yellow, opaque, the medial and inner oblong, 
obtuse, spreading. Gn. adscendens, Th. / Cap. 654. 
_ Has. Cape, Thunberg! Krebs, No. 152, fide Less. l.c. (Herb. Thunb.) 
Very similar to H. rutilans, but less woolly, and said to be perennial. Lower 
leaves 2-24 inches long, 2~3 lines wide toward the apex, about 1 line wide toward 
the base ; upper 1-14 inch long, not a line wide. Corymb 1} inch across, rather 
loose. Scales lemon-yellow. I have only seen Thunberg’s specimen; H. adscendens, 
DC.! is very different (our H. psilolepis). 
74. H. psilolepis (Harv.); stem herbaceous, sub-erect, simple or 
branched from near the base, together with the leaves thickly white- 
woolly ; leaves half-clasping, broad-based, lanceolate or lance-linear, 
acute or acuminate, nigro-apiculate; heads subglobose, many-flowered, 
in densely congested, spheroidal cymes, shortly pedicellate or subses- 
sile ; invol. campanulate, woolly at base, the outer scales membranous, 
horn-colour, thin and pellucid, oblong or ovate, the inner linear, with an 
oblong, obtuse, bright-yellow, spreading limb, subpellucid. H. adscen- 
dens, DC. t.¢. 185. 
Has. Cape, Ecklon! between Zwartkey and Stormberg, also at Kl. Bruintjes- 
hoogte, Zuureberg, Drege! (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) * 
Perennial, many stemmed, very woolly. Leaves j-14 inch long, gradually atte- 
nuated upwards, 1-2 lines wide, ending in a black, sharp point (often hidden under 
the wool). Infl. not much branched. Invol. scales very thin in substance, the 
apices only yellow. 
75. H. hebelepis (DC. 1. c. 187); stem suffruticose at base, aseend- 
ing-erect, simple, or branched from the base, the branches virgate, 
woolly; leaves sessile, lanceolate, apiculate, loosely cobwebbed above, 
white-woolly beneath, 3-5-nerved, the lower acute, the upper acumi- 
nate; cymes subpedunculate, compound, flat-topped, densely many- 
headed, its branches woolly, leafless; heads subsessile, campanulate, 
about 20-2 5-flowered, homogamous; inv. scales dorsally thinly woolly, 
glabrous near the apex, linear, scarious, thin, the outer acute, pale horn- 
colour, the inner obtuse, fulvous-flavescent. 
Var, 8, angustius (DC.); leaves narrower and more acuminate, the lateral 
nerves scarcely obvious, the corymb more crowded, and the heads shorter. 
Has. Kaus Mt. and Modderfontein, Namaqualand, and Hexrivierskloof, Drege ! 
Modderfontein, Rev. H. Whitehead! 8, Brackfontein, Ecklon! (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Stems or branches 1-1} ft. high. Leaves in a, 14-2 inches long, 4~7 lines wide; 
in B, 3-6 lines wide, thinly woolly and pale-greenish above. Cymes corymbose, 
much branched. Heads 2~24 lines long. Recept. quite naked! Pappus scabrous. 
The broad-leaved form is very similar in aspect to H. tricostatwm, but differs in the 
acute inv. scales, and absence of fimbrils on the receptacle. 
76. H. subglomeratum (Less. Syn. 283); stem shrubby at base, 
