236 COMPOSIT& (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
simple or divided into several, virgate branches; branches and leaves 
coated with a silvery-white, interwoven, felted indument; leaves sessile, 
either elliptical, oblong, or lingulate, subacute; heads very densely 
cymoso-corymbose, sessile, the tufts congested with wool underneath ; 
inv. 8—10-fl., cylindrical, the outer scales testaceous, inner bright yellow, 
scarious, obtuse, subpellucid; pappus barbellate. DC. 1. c. 186. 
Var. a. lingulatum ; leaves linear-oblong or tongue-shaped, 1-2 inches long. 
Var. f. imbricatum (DC.) ; leaves elliptical or oblong, imbricated, 4-3 inch long. 
Has. Uitenhage and Albany, Krebs, Burchell, E. § Z.! Drege! H. Hutton! Genl. 
Bolton! &c. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
1-2 f. high, silvery ; the indument usually membranous and smooth, but occasion- 
ally (in Drege’s sp.) loose and woolly. Typical specimens of the two varieties look 
very distinct, but intermediate states are readily found. The woolly agglutination 
of the heads, though considerable, is less than in the following species. 
77. H. umbraculigerum (Less. Syn. 284) ; stem suffruticose at base, 
erect or ascending, simple, tomentose-canescent ; leaves membranous, 
oblongo-obovate or ovato-lanceolate, narrowed much at base (almost 
petiolate), calloso-mucronate, thinly woolly above, albo-tomentose be- 
neath (or uniformly canous), 3-nerved ; heads 5-fl., very numerous, 
densely congested in a flat-topped cyme, the branches of the cyme so 
united by interwoven white wool as to form a disc-like, peltate pseudo- 
membrane, marked with raised, radiating, nerves beneath, and com- 
pletely clothed with fl. heads above; iny. scales bright yellow, obtuse. 
DC. b, & 186... 
Has. Cape, Krebs, No. 147. Betw. Graaf Reynet and Komma-Dabka, Burchell, 
No. 3078. Betw. Omsamcuba and Omsamwubo, Drege. Near Maritzburg and 
Ladysmith, Gerr. ¢ M‘K., 282. Lower Umcomas and Zululand, Gerr. ¢ M‘K.! 
1033, 1034. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 12-15 inches high. Leaves 1-1} inch long, 4-6 lines wide. Inflorescence 
very peculiar ; the flower-heads seemingly closely sessile on a broad, woolly, nerved 
disc. Burchell’s MS. name Gn. dorsteniejlorum is very appropriate. The woolliness 
varies much in density and whiteness. 
78, H. pentzioides (Less.! Syn. 282); stem rigid, shrubby, divari- 
cately-branched, twigs canescent or nude ; leaves obovate, tapering 
much at base, recurvo-mucronulate or very obtuse, thickish, on each 
side dotted, thinly canescent or glabrate; heads corymbulose, subpedi- 
eellate, 10-12-fi. ; invol. cylindrical, not radiating, imbricate, its scales 
pale-horn-colour, dotted, obtuse, scarious, thin, appressed, subpellucid, 
the tips slightly bullated. DC. 1. ¢. 192. 
Has. Kanna River, Mundt § Maire. Nieuweveld, betw. Brakriver and Uitflugt; 
and betw. Zondag riv. and Ado, Drege! Fishriver, Ecklon! Zuureberge, Burke § 
Zeyher! (Zey.! 887). (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
A stout, woody and scrubby bush, a foot or more high, much branched, sometimes 
nearly glabrous, sometimes canous in all parts, Leaves 4-6 lines long, 2-3 lines 
wide, rigid. Heads 14 lines long. 
79. H. lucilioides (Less. Syn. p. 290); stem rigid, shrubby, divari- 
cately branched, twigs tomentose ; leaves obovate or oblong, tapering 
much at base, recurvo-mucronate, thickish, impunctate, 1-nerved, thinly 
canescent; heads two or more together, sessile at the ends of the branches, 
subtended by leaves, ro-fl., homogamous ; inv. cylindrical, not radiating, 
