240 COMPOSITH (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
$8, H. nudifolium (Less. Syn. 299) ; stem erect, simple or branched, 
leafy to or beyond the middle, scabrous or thinly woolly below, pedun- 
cular and thinly woolly above ; root-leaves numerous, ovato-lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, elongate, tapering to both ends, prolonged at base 
into a petiole, 3—5-nerved, concolourous, above and on the prominent 
nerves and veins beneath scaberulous, not woolly or cobwebbed; cauline 
lanceolate or lance-linear, more or less decurrent, acuminate; corymb 
much branched, spreading, thinly tomentose ; heads many-fl., subses- 
sile ; invol. campanulate, nearly glabrous, its scales broadly oblong, 
very obtuse, connivent, membranous, subpellucid, the outer rufo-fulvous, 
inner yellow, or all yellow. DC. 1. c. 200, Gnaph. nudifolium, Linn. 
Sp. 1196. Th.! Cap. 658. 
Var. 8. obovatum; lower and medial cauline leaves 3-4 inches long, 14 inch 
wide, obovate, suddenly acute, tapering at base, decurrent, 3-nerved above the base, 
piloso-scabrid on both sides and on the margin ; upper leaves passing from obovato- 
lanceolate to lanceolate, linear-acuminate and subulate along the peduncle, which is 
thinly tomentose upwards ; immature involucres fulvous. (Herb. Sd.) 
Has. Throughout the Colony and at Natal, common. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Commonly known as ‘‘ Hottentot Tea,” a name given to the allied species also. 
Stem 1-2 feet high or more, brown, very thinly tomentose or nude. Root and lower 
leaves 5-6 inches long, 4-14 inch wide, very harsh to the touch, quite green, with 
prominent ribs and veins. Cauline leaves mostly very narrow, but varying from 
lanceolate-acuminate to linear. Var. f. is founded on a single specimen collected 
by £cklon, and now in Dr. Sonder’s possession, by whom it is regarded as a form 
of H. quinquenerve. To me it seems rather referable to H. nudifolium, if it do not 
show the necessity of uniting those species in one. 
89. H. quinquenerve (Less. Syn. 300) ; stem erect, simple, tomen- 
tose, leafy to or beyond the middle, pedunculoid upwards ; root-leaves 
subpetiolate, oblong, attenuate at base, acute or acuminate, cauline 
broadly ovate, strongly decurrent, above and along the margin scabrid; - 
beneath thinly cobwebbed, becoming glabrate-scaberulous, 5-nerved, the 
nerves prominent, scabrid, connected by prominent, netted veins; 
corymb very much branched, spreading, woolly ; heads many-fl., sub- 
sessile ; inv. campanulate, nearly glabrous, its scales broadly oblong, 
very obtuse, connivent, membranous, subopaque, primrose or lemon- 
coloured. H. nudifolium. y. plantagineum, DC. l.c., also H. multinerve, 
DC.! 1. c. 199. Gnaph. quinquenerve, Thunb. Cap. 658. 
Has. Near George, Mundt & Maire! Dr. Thom! Dr. Pappe! Vanstaadensberg, 
Zeyher! Drege! Stormberg and Witberg, and in the Langekloof, Drege. Betw. 
Maritzberg and Ladysmith, Gerr. & MWK 265. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) ‘ 
Nearly allied to H, nudifoliwm, but with much broader, more ovate and clasping 
stem leaves, 5 or several nerved, more strongly decurrent ; a more woolly stem, and 
more rigid and opaque, less yellow inv. scales. De Candolle seems to have described 
it under two names. Both his plants grow in the same localities. 
90. H. miconiefolium (DC.! 1. c. 200); stem erect, simple, leafy 
and tomentose throughout; radical leaves oval or ovato-lanceolate, 
3-nerved, acute at both ends and tapering at base into a short or long, 
hispid petiole, the younger ones cobwebby above, then glabrate-sca- 
berulous, beneath tomentose (or glabrate) ; cauline sessile, lance-linear, 
acuminate, erect, with revolute margins, quite smooth above, cob- 
webbed or tomentose beneath ; corymb loosely much-branched ; heads 
