Helichrysum. | COMPOSITA ( Harv.) 247 
whitish. Leaves 4 inch long, 1 line wide. Heads 14 line long, like those of Z. 
cymosum, DC. says the heads are “ 25-1. ;” not in the Camdeboo specimens at least, 
110. H. parviflorum (DC.! lc. 203); stem shrubby, robust, much- 
branched, branches virgate, thinly canous ; leaves sessile, broad-based, 
linear or oblong, or lanceolate, one-nerved, on both sides canous- 
tomentose, often recurvo-mucronate, and concave; heads very nume- 
rous, in densely much-branched, flat-topped cymes, subsessile, 5-f1., 
homogamous, cylindrical ; inv. scales glossy, semi-pellucid, imbricate 
in many rows, appressed, oblong, obtuse, pale-lemon coloured. ZH. 
niveum, Less. ! Syn. 302. Gn. niveum, Linn. Sp. 1192. Gn. cernuum, Th.! 
Cap. 654. Gn. parviflorum, Lam. 
Van. 8. longifolium (DC.); leaves very long and narrow, acute, linear. 
Var. y. latifolium (DC. ex pte.); leaves oval-oblong or elliptical, obtuse or 
mucronulate. 
Has. Western Districts, common. Vanstaaden’s River, Drege. Hassagayskloof, 
Zey.! 2873, 2870. Var. y. Uitenhage, Eckl./ Between the Koega and Zwartkop’s 
Riv., Zey./ 2871. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
_ A-small shrub, 1-2 feet high; branches 10-12 inches long. Leaves very variable 
in length and breadth ; commonly }—1 inch long, 1-2 lines wide ; in 8. 1-1} inch 
long, 4 line wide ; in . sometimes 1 inch long, 4-6 lines wide! Heads constantly 
5-fl. and pale-lemon colour. Drege’s plant from Sneeuweberg, referred by DC. to var. 
7-, is (in some Herbaria at least) H. subglomeratum, Less. 
111. H. callicomum (Harv.); stem shrubby at base, branches virgate, 
closely set with leaves throughout, and, as well as the leaves, densely 
woolly; leaves sessile one-nerved, the lower obovato-spathulate, obtuse, 
mucronulate, the upper passing from linear-oblong to lance-linear, acute 
or acuminate, with subrecurved margins ; cymes loosely panicled, flat- 
topped, much branched ; heads 2—4 at the ends of the pedicels, subsessile, 
cylindrical, 4—5-fl., (2-3 herm., 2 fem.); invol. glabrous and glossy, its 
scales appressed, imbricate in many rows, acute, pellucid, straw-colour, 
the outer short, inner oblongo-lanceolate ; recept. narrow, short-toothed. 
Zey.! 886. 
Has. Mooye River, Burke and Zeyher. Basutuland, 7. Cooper/ 730. Zululand 
Gerr § M‘K. 1035. (Hb. Hk. D., Sd.) 
Stems 2~-3-ft. high. Branches 1-14-f. long. All parts thickly woolly, greyish. 
Lower leaves 3-1 inch long, 2~3 lines wide at lip; upper 4—} inch long, the younger 
erect, old spreading or reflexed. Panicle corymbose, 2-4 inches across. Inv. with 
a glassy lustre. 
112, H. aureo-nitens (Sch. Bip.); stems slender, subsimple, erect, 
canous, leafy throughout ; leaves half-clasping, on both sides tomentose, 
with subrecurved margins, one-nerved, the lowest obovate-spathulate, 
the upper oblong, mucronulate ; heads 12-20, in dense, subglobose 
cymes, 40—45-f1., subsessile ; inv. campanulate, imbricate, the scales 
glabrous, semi-pellucid, very broad and blunt, yellow or tawny ; recept. 
honey-combed and toothed. Sch. Bip. Comp. Krauss, p. 16. 
Has. Port Natal, Dr. Krauss/ 280. Ranges 3-4000f. Dr, Sutherland. (Hb. D. 
Hk., Sd.) 
Probably growing in tufts, many stems from a woody crown. Stems 6-12 inches 
high, the taller disposed to branch below the short-peduncled cyme. Leaves 1 inch 
long, 2-3 lines wide, white, closely woolly. Inv. 14 line long. 
