242 COMPOSITZ (Harv.) | Helichrysum. 
the outer scales purplish, the inner white and subacute at apex. Cor. yellow. Pap- 
pus white. Fimbrils golden.” DC. 1. c. 
94. H. cephaloideum (DC.!1.c. 197); stem erect, simple or branched, 
white-woolly, leafy throughout; leaves on both sides white-woolly, the 
radical oblong or lance-oblong, elongate, acute or obtuse, not much 
narrowed at base, 3-nerved, the cauline sessile, lance-linear, acuminate, 
erect, the uppermost subulate ; heads in a dense, subglobose fascicle or 
densely corymbose cyme, campanulate, many-fl.; inv. scales glabrous 
and glossy, flat, imbricated, scarious, lanceolate, acute, yellow. 
Van. B. polycephalum (DC.) ; stem branched, branches erect, straight ; heads 
and clusters smaller ; inv. scales rather blunter and less bright. 
Has. Kaffirland, Ecklon! Betw. Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, and at Natal, 
Drege! Natal, Dr. Grant! Gueinzius! 355, 593. Dr. Sutherland! Betw. Maritzburg 
and Ladysmith, Gerr. § M‘K. 290. Var. B. Albany, Ecklon! Karrega river, Zey./ 
2877. Betw. Maritzburg and Ladysmith, Gerr.@ M‘K., 258, 263. (Hb., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 1-2 feet high, quite simple or branched below the middle. Rad. leaves 
3-6 inches long. Lower cauline 3-4 inches long, 3-5 lines wide ; upper gradually 
smaller, all very woolly and sharp pointed. Heads in var. a. very brilliant golden 
or orange-yellow, with very sharp-pointed scales; in 8. smaller, much less bright, 
in smaller clusters and with blunter scales. This last variety is most common in 
the Colony, and the former seems prevalent in Kaffraria and Natal, but I have both 
forms collected together by Gerr. § M‘Ken. 
95. H. longifolium (DC.! 1.c. 198); stem erect, simple, white-woolly, 
leafy throughout ; radical leaves linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
elongate, glabrous and 5-nerved on the upper, white-woolly on the 
under surface ; cauline erect, linear-acuminate or subulate, woolly on 
one or both sides ; heads campanulate, very many-fl., in a close or open 
corymbose-cyme, pedicellate; inv. scales glabrous and glossy, flat, im- 
bricated, scarious, oblongo- lanceolate, acute or acuminate, bright yellow. 
Has. Between Omsamculo and Omtendo, Drege! Natal, 7. Williamson! Gerr. 
§ M‘K.! 855, Dr. Sutherland! Kaboosie Mts., Br. Kaftraria, W.S.M.D Urban! 52. 
Very nearly related to H. cephaloidewm, but differing in the discoloured root-leaves 
and larger fl. heads. In an early stage the inflorescence is nearly as much condensed 
as in H. cephaloideum, but afterwards becomes the h roe 
Heads not unlike those of H. fetidwm. open, the heads on long pedi 
96. H. appendiculatum (Less.! Syn. 308) ; stem erect or ascending- 
erect, simple, loosely woolly or cobwebbed, leafy throughout ; leaves 
loosely woolly and pilose on both sides, the radical elongate, 3—5-nerved, 
the cauline lanceolate-oblong, half-clasping, acute or mucronate, the 
uppermost erect, lance-acuminate, tipped with a scarious, glabrous and 
withered point ; heads densely corymboso-cymose, crowded, pedicellate, 
campanulate, many-fl.; inv. scales glabrous, pale-yellow or purplish, 
flat, loosely imbricated, ovate, acute or acuminate, scarious, but not 
glossy. DC.1.c 208. Also H. folliculatum, DC.! l.c.197. Gin. appen- 
diculatum, Th.! Cap. 649 and Gn. humile, Th.! p. 655. 
Var, B. discolor .) 3 leaves i = 3 
soy much aominais, ucrroes Lediede, DELO 
Has. Cape, Thunberg, &c. Common in Uitenhage and Albany, E. § Z./ Drege! 
de. Var. B. Near Port Natal, Drege! Ki een ; - 
857, &e. (Herb. Th.,D.,Sd,Hk) 398/ Plant) Gerr. § M'K.! 291, 54 
Stems 1-2 f. high, simple or branched below the middle, loosely woolly. Leaves 
