244 COMPOSIT (Harv.): [ Helichrysum. 
rough with thick, glandular bristles, above loosely tomentose ; leaves 
on the upper surface sparingly, on the lower along the nerves, and 
specially at the margins, rough with thick, glandular bristles, oval- 
lanceolate, on each side decurrent in a long, broad wing; corymb com- 
pound ; heads 12—15-fl.; inv. ovate, the scales membranous, oval, very 
obtuse, glabrous, rufescent; recept. scarcely honey-combed. DC. l. ¢. 
Has. Between Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, 1-2000 f., Drege? 
Of this I have only seen a frustule in Hb. Sond, 
101. H. Gerrardi (Harv.); stem erect, branching, laxly leafy, gla- 
brous and striate, smooth ; branches long; leaves linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, narrowed to the base, with revolute margins, quite smooth 
and even on the upper, glabrous on both surfaces, all 3-nerved, decur- 
rent at base into a long, narrow stem wing; infl. corymboso-cymose ; 
heads (not mature) crowded, sessile, few-fl.; inv. glabrous, glossy, its 
seales erect, oblong, obtuse, lemon-yellow. 
Has. Nototi, Natal, W. 7. Gerrard/ 1001. (Herb. D.) 
Very like H. stenopterum, but quite glabrous, with perfectly smooth (not scabrous) 
upper surfaces of leaf. Flowers not seen, 
102. H. stenopterum (DC.! 1. c. 201); stem erect, branching, laxly 
leafy, cobwebby ; branches long ; leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 
narrowed to the base, with revolute margins, scabrous on the upper, 
white-woolly on the lower surface, the lowest 3- the upper 1-nerved, 
all decurrent at base into a long, narrow stem-wing ; inflorescence 
corymbo-cymose, branching; heads very densely crowded, sessile, 5—6-f1. ; 
invol. glabrous and glossy, its scales membranous, erect, oblong, acute, 
the outer tawny, inner lemon-yellow, all semi-pellucid. 
Has. Betw. Omsamculo and Omcomas, and at Natal, Drege! Natal, Dr. Grant! 
Gueinzius! Betw. Maritzburg and Ladysmith, Gerr. § M‘K./ 286. (Hb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems straggling or subscandent, several (?) feet long, slender; branches 12-18 
inches long. Kameal leaves an inch or more apart, 2~4 inches long, 2-4 lines wide, 
the young ones thinly cobwebby, older glabrate, but scaberulous, deep green. 
Heads innumerable, very small, rufous, tipped with gold. Recept. honey-com 
the cells toothed. Pappus rough, : 2d . = 
103. H. gymnocomum (DC.! 1. c. 202) ; stem rigid, erect or diffuse, 
branching, branches ending in a long, leafless peduncle, tomentose ; 
leaves long-decurrent, the lowest obovate, 3-nerved, subobtuse, mucro- 
nate, upper oblong, the younger on both sides loosely woolly, the old 
becoming nude above, setoso-scabrid ; cymes long-peduncled, very 
densely much-branched, leafless; heads oblong, 5-6-fl.; inv. scales 
erect, glabrous and glossy, oblong, concave, acute or subacute, fulvous- 
yellow. 
Var. 8, acuminatum (DC.) ; leaves longer, acuminate, more scabrid above ; inv- 
scales less acute. 
as Bebe. Eanes oe Saari B.. Leapiram: 4334, 4385. Cape — 
, Ecklon ar. 8. Vans ens ; é 20. 
Cost. sa Hk, D) B berg. gel Albert, 7. Cooper! 
_ Very nearly allied to H. odoratissimum, from which it chiefly differs in its rather 
longer involucre and flowers, and the fewer number of flowers in each head, and 
subacute inv. scales. 8. is slender, and less woolly. 
