Helichrysum.] COMPOSITE (Harv.) 243 
on both sides sprinkled with jointed, swollen, persistent bristles, and clothed. with 
partially deciduous, loose, silky-woolly hairs in variable quantity, faintly 3-5-nerved. 
Var. 8. chiefly differs in its much more taper-pointed, curved or recurved inv. scales ; 
but this character is far from being constant, even on the same specimen. The leaves, 
though glabrous and smooth above on some of Drege’s specimens, are in others variably 
hispid and cobwebby, exactly as in var. a. 
§ 14. DecurRENTIA. (Sp. 97-104.) 
97. H. xerochrysum (DC.!1.c. 201); stem erect, simple, leafy in 
the lower half, pedunculoid upwards, and as well as the Jeaves clothed 
with rufous or fulvous wool; lower leaves broadly oblongo-lanceolate, 
acute, narrowed to the base, upper lanceolate or lance-linear, acumi- 
nate, strongly decurrent; corymb few-headed, subsimple; heads (rather 
large), long pedicelled, woolly at base, campanulate, very many-fl. ; 
inv. scales loosely imbricate in many rows, glabrous and glossy, rigidly 
scarious, golden-yellow, lance-oblong, acute or acuminate. 
Has. Between Zandplaat and Komga, Drege! (Herb. Hook., Sd.) 
Stem 12-15 inches high ; the upper half peduncular, with 1-2 narrow, very erect, 
depauperated leaves. Lower leaves 3-4 inches long, {-1 inch wide, gradually 
shorter, narrower, and more decurrent upwards. Heads 8-10 lines diameter ; outer 
scales fulvous. Fimbrils whitish. 
98. H. Mundtii (Harv.); stem erect, simple, leafy, tomentose, pani- 
cled at the summit; lower leaves oblongo-lanceolate, subacute, very 
much attenuate to the base, 3-nerved above the middle, upper linear- 
lanceolate or linear, acute or acuminate, all glabrous on the upper, 
white-woolly on the lower surface, and decurrent at base into a long, 
narrow stem-wing ; inflorescence corymboso-paniculate, much and loose- 
ly branched ; heads aggregate, subsessile, 20-25-fl.; inv. glabrous, im- 
bricated, its scales erect, oblong, obtuse, cream-coloured, subopaque ; 
recept. honeycombed and toothed. 
Has. Wagenmaker’s Bosch, Swell., Mundt! (Herb. D., Hk.) 
Stem 2-3 feet high, herbaceous, simple except for the panicled inflorescence. 
Lower leaves 6-8 inches long or more, about } of the length forming the ing 
base, below the forking of the nerves: the expanded — 3-1} inch wide. Upper 
leaves shorter and narrower, less tapering at base. Panicle 6-12 in. long and wide. 
99. H. Natalitium (DC. 1. c. 201); stem erect, simple, elongate, leafy, 
shortly pedunculoid at the summit, and, as well as the leaves, loosely 
(or thinly) whitish-woolly ; leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 3- 
nerved, tapering to each end, long-decurrent in a narrow wing ; inflo- 
rescence corymbo-cymose, branching ; heads very densely crowded, ses- 
sile, 10-12-f1.; inv. woolly at base, its scales loosely imbricate, oblong, 
subacute, wavy, cream-coloured; recept. shortly honey-combed ; pappus 
of very few, slender bristles. 
Has. Port Natal, Drege / T. Williamson! Gueinzius! No. 350, Dr. Sutherland ! 
(Herb. Hk., D., Sd.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high. Root leaves 5-6 inches long, } inch wide, much acuminate 
and tapering at base ; cauline leaves 2-468 incheslong. Peduncle often branched, 
each branch bearing 2-3 very dense cymes. Heads 2 lines long. Pappus very 
scanty, sometimes none. 
100. H. platypterum (DC. ! 1. c. 201); “stem erect, simple, below 
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