Helichrysum. | COMPOSITE (Harv.) 241 
subsessile ; inv. woolly at base, its scales glabrous, shining, loosely 
imbricated, undulate, ovate, acute, subacuminate, golden or lemon- 
yellow. 
Has. Witberg, Drege! Albany Distr., Ecklon! Mrs, F. W. Barber, 506, (Herb. 
Sond., D., Hk.) 
Stem white-woolly throughout, 12-15 inches high, sometimes laxly leafy upwards 
or imperfectly pedunculoid ; sometimes densely leafy to the corymb. Root leaves 
sometimes on petioles 4-5 inches long; the lamina 3 inches long, 1-1} inch wide : 
Sometimes on petioles scarcely an inch long. Usually the lower leaves are persis- 
tently tomentose on the under side ; but in some specimens they become glabrous. 
—Nearly allied to H. Krebsianum, but differing in the involucre, &c. This is also 
called ‘‘ Kaffir Tea” (fide Mrs. #. W. B.) 
91. H. Krebsianum (Less.! Syn. 308); stem erect, simple, leafy 
throughout, setoso-scabrid and angular below, tomentose above ; sub- 
radical leaves oblongo-lanceolate, tapering at base into a ribbed petiole, 
on both sides piloso-setose, prominently 3-nerved, the cauline sessile, 
broad-based, lance-linear, acuminate, with revolute margins, piloso- 
seabrid above, beneath cobwebby ; corymb loosely much-branched ; 
heads pedicellate, globose ; inv.-scales nearly glabrous, loosely imbri- 
cated, oval, concave, obtuse, straw-colour, connivent. DC. l. ¢. 204, 
and Hel. crassinerve, DU. 1. c. 199. 
Has. Cape, Krebs, No. 154. Caftraria, Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
Stem 1-1} f. high. Root-leaves few, 2~3 inches long, $~} inch wide: cauline 
numerous, 1~14 inch long, 1~3 lines wide. Heads 3-4 lines diam.—Compared by 
Dr. Sonder with the original specimens in Hb. Berol., described by Lessing, who 
had not seen the radical or lower cauline leaves. 
92. H. subulifolium (Harv.); stem erect, simple, tomentose, leafy 
nearly to the summit; radical leaves . . . . 3 cauline crowded, 
from a broadish base linear-attenuate, hook-pointed, with strongly re- 
volute margins, the lower ones 3-nerved, all piloso-scabrid above and 
on the nerves beneath, at first thinly cobwebby-tomentose, becoming 
glabrate; heads very many, in a much-branched, spreading corymb, 
many-fl., subsessile ; inv. glabrous (or thinly cobwebbed at base), im- 
bricate, its scales glossy, membranous, oblong, obtuse, concave, tawny 
or horn-colour. 
Has. Mooye River, Burke § Zeyher! Zey.! 882. (Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Stem 1~2 feet high; the base and root-leaves not seen. Cauline leaves 4-5 inches 
long, 1-2 lines wide, strongly revolute at margin, tapering to a sharp, recurved 
point, the young ones hoary, the old glabrate, but very scabrid. Upper leaves 
gradually smaller. Corymb 3-5 inches in diameter, its branches tomentose. Invol. 
almost glabrous. Pappus pale. Fimbrils fulyous, subulate, longer than the achenes. 
93. H. oxyphyllum (DC. 1. c. 199); ‘leaves along the lower part 
of the stem sessile, half-clasping, from a broad base lanceolate-linear, 
the lowest obtuse, the rest much acuminate, with subrevolute margins, 
3-nerved, somewhat scabrid above, beneath (as well as the simple stem) 
villoso-tomentose, whitish ; heads 50~G6o in a compound corymb; inv. 
woolly at base, the outer scales purplish, the innermost scales oblong, 
white-tipped, subacute.” DC. 1. ¢. 
Has. Near the Gauritz River, Burchell, No. 4733. 
*‘ Leaves 4 inches long, 6-7 lines wide, Stem 14f. high. Inv. woolly at base, 
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