246 COMPOSITE (Harv.) [Helichrysum. 
Var. 8, minus (Sond.); leaves more closely set, much narrower and shorter, 
linear ; cymes more contracted ; heads shorter and narrower. Zey. / 883. 
Var. 7, pauciflorum ; leaves close-set, shortly oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, 3- 
nerved, spreading or recurved, glabrous above ; heads 5-flowered. H. parviflorum, 
var. aureum, DC.! (quoad exempl, Lckl.!) 
Has. Throughout the Colony, and in Caffirland ; vars. a. and B., Natal, Gerr. § 
M‘K. 293. Var. y. Cape, Burchell, 63,315, and 4216, Ecklon! (Herb. Th. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 1-2 feet hight, woody below, much-branched ; branches long and leafy 
nearly to the cymes. Leaves in a. subdistant, 14 inch long, 2-3 lines wide ; in B. 
3-3 inch long, 1 line wide, but obviously 3-nerved. Invols. very bright, the heads 
not massed together and often shortly pedicelled. Var. y., referred to by DC. to 
H. parviflorum, has all the essential characters of H. cymosum, except the smaller 
fl. heads. 
107. H. tenuiculum (DC. 1. c. 203); stems suffruticose at base, very 
slender, flexuous, diffuse or ascending, branches long, suberect, tomen- 
tose-canescent ; leaves half-clasping, subdecurrent, lanceolate-acumi- 
nate, 3-nerved, fiat, thinly membranous, soon becoming glabrous above, 
whitish-woolly beneath; heads 12-20 in dense, slightly-branched cymes, 
short pedicelled, oblong, 10-12-fl.; invol. scales obtuse, glossy, close- 
pressed, the outer fulvous, inner golden-yellow. 
Has. Dutoitskloof, 3-4000 f., Drege! (Herb. D., Sd., Hk.) 
Stems weak and straggling, 1-2 feet long, in tufts ; branches 8-10 inches long, 
erect, laxly leafy upwards. Leaves horizontally spreading or deflexed, green above, 
of thin substance, {—1 inch long, 1-2 lines wide. Nearly allied to H. eymosum, but 
very much more slender, with thinner leaves. 
108. H. simillimum (DC.! 1. c. 203); stem suffruticose, slender, 
branched, the branches virgate, erect, white-woolly; leaves half-clasp- 
ing, imbricate, erect, on both sides whitish-woolly, ovato-lanceolate, 
nigro-mucronate, 3-nerved, with subrevolute margins; heads many, in 
crowded, branching, subglobose cymes, short-pedicelled, 12-15-fi., he- 
terogamous, oblong ; inv. scales glabrous, oblong, yellow-fulvous, with 
squarrose-reflexed, obtuse tips. 
Has. Cape, Krebs, 211, fide Sond./ Kaffirland, Ecklon! between the Key and 
Gekau, Drege / near Butterworth, Kreili’s Country, H. Bowker! (Herb. Sond. D.) 
Stems branched from the base ; branches 8-10 inches long, closely leafy through- 
out. Leaves } inch long, 2} lines wide at base, of thin substance, evidently 3-nerved 
(when viewed by transmitted light) and also mucronate in Ecklon’s specimens. Heads 
1} lines long ; inv. squarrose. According to Sonder, this agrees exactly with Krebs’ 
211, alluded to by Lessing in an obs. under H. capitellatum (Syn. p. 305). I have 
not seen Drege’s specimens, which may come nearer to H, melanacme than those 
here described. : J 
109. H. melanaeme (DC.! 1. c. 203); stem suffruticose at base, very 
slender, diffusely-branched, branches long, suberect, tomentose ; leaves 
half-clasping, subdecurrent, lanceolate, one-nerved, nigro-mucronate, 
with subrevolute margins, both sides albo-tomentose, the younger erect, 
the old spreading or reflexed, at length denuded above ; heads 12-20, 
in dense subglobose, nearly sessile cymes, short-pedicelled, oblong, about 
12-fl.; inv. scales obtuse, glossy, close-pressed, the outer fulvous, inner 
golden-yellow. 
Bee ie 6-7000 ft., and Camdebooberg, 4-5000 ft., Drege! (Herb. D., 
A slender, apparently trailing, closely-leafy, thinly-woolly plant; young parts 
