238 COMPOSITA (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
diffusely much-branched, woolly corymbose-cyme, many-fl., pedicellate ; 
invol. campanulate, imbricate, all the scales dorsally woolly below, their 
apices glabrous, membranous, /anceolate-acuminate, squarrose, pale horn- 
colour or purplish. 
Sie a Gueinzius! 322, 590. Near D‘Urban, Gerr. § M‘Ken.! 307. (Herb. 
md., D. 
Allied 3 H. latifolium, from which it differs in the evidently petiolate root-leaves, 
the much more diffuse inflorescence, and especially in the invol. scales. Stem 1-1} 
feet high. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 14-2 inches wide. There is usually a single, 
narrow-lanceolate, acuminate floral-leaf about the middle of the peduncle, and one 
at the base of the cyme. 
83, H. pedunculare (DC.! 1. c. 198); stem erect, simple, leafy at base 
or to beyond the middle, usually prolonged into a nearly naked, woolly 
peduncle; subradical leaves coriaceous, lance-oblong or obovate-oblong, 
subacute, more or less basally attenuated or petiolate, above glabrous 
and smooth, 5—7~g-nerved, beneath white-tomentose, with inconspicu- 
ous or faintly marked nerves ; heads very many (20-60) in a dense, 
subglobose, branching cyme, many-fi., subsessile ; invol. campanulate, 
imbricate, woolly at base, not radiating, the scales flat, membranous, 
linear, obtuse, brownish horn-colour. Gnaph. pedunculare, Linn. Mant. 
284, fide DC. 
Var. 8. pilosellum ; stem dwarf (23 inches high); heads about 5 in a cluster. 
HT, pilosellum, Less. Syn. 297. DC. l. ¢. 198. 
Has. Swellendam, Burchell! 720. Uitenhage, Ecklon! Kango, Dr. Thom! Beth- 
elsdorf, Zey.! 879. Caledon R., Burke! Beaufort, 7. Cooper! 415. Var. B. Kango, 
Mundt and Maire. (Herb. Sd., Hk., D.) 
Stem 6 inches to 3 feet high, leafy chiefly near the base; the cauline leaves 
clasping, oblong or oblongo-lanceolate ; the peduncular extremity woolly, with a 
few scattered, subulate, depauperated leaves. Lower leaves 3-7 inches long, 1-23 
inches wide, the tomentum on the under surface closely interwoven, either copious 
(concealing the nerves) or scanty. Inv. scales testaceous. The young inflores- 
cence is nearly spheroidal, and very dense; the older flattens into a trichotomous 
cyme. H. pilosellum, Less., by description, can scarcely be anything but a dwarf 
specimen of this plant, According to Mr. Cooper, this plant, called Hry’kue by the 
Fingoes, is used to cure wounds, particularly the wounds of circumcision. 
84, H. undatum (Less.! Syn. 298); stem erect, simple, leafy at base 
or below the middle, pedunculoid upwards and densely woolly ; sub- 
radical leaves tapering at base into a short or longish petiole, ovate- 
oblong, acute or acuminate, 3—5-nerved, cauline (when any) sessile, 
clasping, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, all densely woolly beneath, 
piloso-seabrid and thinly cobwebbed above, undulate; heads many in a 
densely much-branched, woolly, flat-topped cyme, many-fl., pedicellate ; 
invol. campanulate, woolly at base; apices of the scales glabrous, glossy, 
oval-oblong, concave and connivent, very obtuse, sub-opaque, the outer 
purplish, inner white. DC. Ul. c. 198. Gn. undatum, Th.! Cap. p. 655 
Vang. 8, pallidum; inv. sc. cream-colour or pale buff. H. pallidum, DC. 1.c. 199- 
Has. Paardekop, Mundt & Maire. Cape, Bowie! Fish R. and Zoguslveiys Drege! 
Albany, £. Z., T. W., Genl. Bolton. Var. B, Albany, 7. Williamso#! Caledon R., 
Burke! Katriversberg, Zwartkey and Buffel River, and between Omsamculo and 
Omtendo, Dreye/ (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, sometimes leafy in its lower half, sometimes at base only. 
Rad. leaves more or less distinctly pedunculate, 4-6 or 8-10 inches long, 1-2-3 
