Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) 239 — 
wide, mostly acuminate ; in the more luxuriant the forking of the nerves is much 
above the base of the leaf. De Candolle’s 1. pallidum merely differs in the colour 
of the inv. sc. I have both forms from the same locality, collected by 7’. Williamson. 
85. H. coriaceum (Sond.! Linn. 23, p. 65); stem erect, simple, leafy 
at base or below the middle, prolonged into a nearly naked, woolly 
peduncle; subradical leaves coriaceous, lanceolate, acuminate, tapering 
at base, on both sides coated with a membranous, separable, silvery and 
rather glossy coat, 3—5-nerved, the upper surface at length denuded, lower 
persistently silvery ; heads many in a dense, subglobose or branching 
and flat-topped cyme, many-fl.; invol. campanulate, imbricate, woolly 
at base, not radiating, the scales wavy, membranous, ovato-lanceolate, 
acuminate or acute, pale straw-colour, subpellucid. 
Has. Magalisberg and Aapjes Riv., Burke § Zey.! Zey.! 880. (Hb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, densely leafy at base. Root leaves numerous, 5-6 inches 
long, 3—? inch wide, tapering to both ends. Cauline leaves sessile, 2-3 inches long, 
2-4 lines wide. The coating of the leaves may be peeled off as a thin, membranous, 
white skin ; it finally splits longitudinally and peels off the upper surface. Mature 
inflorescence 2—3 inches across, umbellate, of 40-60 heads. Inv. scales whitish. 
86. H. allioides (Less. Syn. 299); stem erect, simple, leafy at the 
base or below the middle, pedunculoid upwards, tomentose; subradical 
leaves crowded, petiolate, varying from ovate to ovato-lanceolate, or 
linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at both ends, 3-nerved, cauline 
leaves sessile, 1-nerved, all white-woolly beneath, glabrous and smooth 
above, the younger cobwebby on the nerves; heads very numerous 
(50-100), crowded in a densely much-branched, flattened cyme, many- 
fl., pedicellate ; invol. campanulate, imbricate, woolly at base, the scales 
flat, ovate, the outer subacute, inner obtuse, variable in colour (pale-yel- 
low, reddish-btown or straw). DC. 1. ¢. 198. 
Has. Cape, Krebs, 145; Stormberg and Zwartekey, Drege! Uitenhage, Ecklon! 
Natal, Krauss, No. 369, Gueinzius! Sutherland! &e. (Herb., Sd., Hk., D.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high. Leaves extremely variable in shape and comparative oo 
and breadth: in some ovate, 2-2! inches long, 14 inch wide ; in some 4-6 inc 
long, 1-14 inch wide; and in others 4-5 inches long, 3-4 lines wide. Petioles vary 
from 1-5-6 inches in length, The nerves are generally obyious on both surfaces. 
fnv. scales varying much in colour, not very glossy. 
87. H. leiopodium (DC.! 1. c. 200) ; stem erect, simple, leafy to or 
beyond the middle, tomentose ; radical leaves elliptic-oblong or lanceo- 
late, acute at both ends, tapering at base into a glabrate petiole, 
3-5-nerved, smooth above, cobwebby-tomentose and whitish beneath ; 
cauline, sessile, lance-linear, acuminate ; corymb loosely much-branched; 
heads subsessile; inv. campanulate, imbricate, nearly glabrous, its scales 
shining, imbricate, roundish oval, very obtuse, erect, golden-yellow. 
Var. 8. denudatum}; radical leaves glabrate beneath. 
Has. Near Onzer, and betw. Gekau and Basche, Drege/ Caledon, Uitenhage, 
Albany and Tambukiland, Ecklon! Var. 8. Bosjesveld, Mundt! Thaba Unka, 
Burke § Zeyher 381. Vanstaadensberg and near Grahamstown, Zey.’ 2862. (Hb. 
D., HkE., Sy" 
Very like H. nudifolium (especially var. 8.) but more tomentose, with the upper 
surfaces of the leaves quite smooth, not scaberulous, their bases not decurrent, &c. 
I fear however that the characters are not constant. : 
