Helichrysum.] COMPOSITZ (Harv.) 237 
imbricate, its scales pale-horn-colour, impunctate, obtuse, scarious, glossy, 
thin, appressed, semipellucid. DOC... 191. Gn. stehelinoides, Th.? 
Cap. 652. 
Has. Cape, Thunb.! Ecklon! Burke § Zeyher! Nieuwefeld, Beaufort Drege} 
(Herb. Th., Hook., D., Sd.) é : | 
Very similar to 17. pentzioides in habit and foliage, but with different inflorescence, 
longer and more shining involucres, and corollas and pappus fully twice as long. 
Invol. 3 lines long. Leaves 3-4 lines long, 14-2 lines wide, whitish or yellowish. 
80. H. excisum (Less. Syn. 282); stem shrubby, rigid, much branched, 
the twigs canescent ; leaves spathulate-cuneate, tapering much at base, 
recurvo-mucronate (and almost obcordate), thickish, on each side cano- 
tomentose; heads corymbulose, subsessile, g—1o-fl.; inv. cylindrical, 
not radiating, imbricate, its scales golden-yellow, lanceolate, acute, 
squarrose, scarious, the outer ones short and membranous. WDC. l. c. 
192. Gnaph. excisum, Th.! Cap. 655. 
Has. Cape, Thunberg! Burchell, 6508. Dr. Thom! Langekloof, betw. Grootfontein 
and Gangekraal, Drege/ On the Karro, Mundt/ Hassagay’skloof and Breederivers- 
poort, Zey! 2865. (Herb. Th., Hk., D., Sd.) 
A densely-branched, rigid, small shrub, less divaricate than H. pentzioides, with 
nearly similar foliage, but very different involucres. Leaves 3-6 lines long, 2-3 
lines wide, owing to the strongly recurved point nearly obcordate. Heads 13 line 
long, the tips of all the scales very acute and strongly recurved. 
Sub-genus II. LEPICLINE. (Sp. 81-137.) 
§ 13. Puantaginea. (Sp. 81-96.) 
81. H. latifolium (Less.! Syn. 297); stem erect, simple, leafy at the 
base only, pedunculoid upwards and densely woolly; subradical leaves 
sessile, either ovate-oblong or ovato-lanceolate, generally acute-pointed 
and narrowed to the base, rarely obtuse at both ends, the cauline 
(1~2) stem-clasping, lanceolate-oblong, narrow, all 5—7~9-nerved, woolly 
beneath, piloso-scabrid and thinly cobwebbed or glabrate above ; heads 
many in a densely-branched, flat-topped or globose cyme, many-fl., 
pedicellate ; inv. campanulate, imbricate, woolly at base, apices of the 
scales glabrous, membranous, broadly-oblong, obtuse, pale horn-colour or 
purplish. DC. 2. c. p. 198. Gnaph. latifolium, Th. / Cap. 660, 
Var. B. reticulatum; cauline leaves ovate, clasping ; all the leaves thinly tomen- 
tose beneath, with dark-coloured, netted veins between the nerves. ‘ 
Has. Galgebosch, Thunberg. Gauritz R., Burchell, 4734. Zuureberg, Drege! 
Grahamstown, Genl. Bolton! Kaffirland, Ecklon! Natal, Krauss, 384, Gueinzius, 
Sutherland! B. Between Maritzberg and Ladysmith, Gerr. § M‘Ken.! 281. (Herb. 
Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 12-15 inches high. Leaves 2-4 inches long, 1-2} inches wide, becoming 
glabrate above, but persistently rough with swollen, jointed bristles ; the under surface 
variably tomentose. Condensed cyme 1-1} inch diameter, at length flat-topped. 
82. H. griseum (Sond.! in Linn. 23, p. 65); stem erect, simple, leafy 
at the base only, pedunculoid upwards, densely woolly ; subradical 
leaves shortly petiolate, ovate or oblong, acute at each end, the cauline 
one or two, stem-clasping, ovate or oblong, acute or acuminate, All 
faintly 5-7-nerved, densely woolly beneath, piloso-scabrid and (at first) 
thinly cobwebbed, becoming glabrate above ; heads very many in a 
