248 COMPOSIT (Harv.) [ Helichrysum. 
113. H. subdecurrens (DC. |. c. 202); “stem suffruticose at base ; 
leaves half-clasping, subdecurrent, linear, one-nerved, villous-tomentose 
beneath, the lowest subacute, uppermost mucronate-acuminate; branches 
leafless near the extremity, tomentose ; heads ovate, 8-g-fl., crowded 
in a subglobose, compound cyme ; invol. glabrous, not radiating, the 
scales closely imbricating, obtuse, fulvous-yellow.” DC. 7. ¢. 
Has. Cape, Burchell, 5970. 
Said to differ from H. cymoswm in the narrower, more acuminate, one-nerved 
leaves ; ovate fi.-heads ; and very short fimbrils. 
114, H. intricatum (DC.! 1. c. 204); stem suffruticose at base, slender, 
nude; branches long, laxly leafy, tomentose and pedunculoid upwards ; 
leaves half-clasping, sub-decurrent, broadly oblong, obtuse, membranous, 
undulate, subrepand, setoso-scabrid, becomingnude above, loosely woolly 
beneath; cymes pedunculate, leafless, crowded, branched, hemispherical ; 
heads oblong, 7—9-fl., subsessile, woolly at base ; inv. scales shining, 
oblong, obtuse, the outer fulvous, inner golden-yellow. 
Has. Swellendam and George, Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
Stems weak and straggling, 1-2 f. long ; branches 10-12 inches long. Leaves an 
inch apart, spreading, thin in substance, at first cobwebbed above, then green, but 
scabrous, 7-1 inch long, 2-4 lines wide. Cymes 1 inch across. Head 13 line long. 
115. H. pannosum (DC.! 1. c. 204); the subsimple stem, leaves, and 
peduncles densely clothed with interwoven, white wool; leaves distant, 
the lowest cordate-clasping at base, oval-oblong, acute, the upper half- 
clasping, linear-oblong, or lance-linear, acuminate; corymb loosely com- 
pound or panicled ; heads clustered at the end of the pedicels, sessile, 
woolly-based, about to-fl., cylindrical; inv. scales glabrous, ovate-acute, 
closely imbricate, fulvous, with yellow tips or lemon-yellow. 
Has. Between Omsamwubo and Omsamcaba, and Omcomas and Omblas, Drege. 
Umginto, Natal, Gerr. §. M‘K. 1036. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 2 feet high, flexuous, ending in a many-forked corymbose-cyme. “Leaves 
1}-2 inches apart ; the lower 2} inches long, 1 inch wide; upper as long, only half 
as wide, complicate. All parts clothed with white, closely interwoven wool. The 
lower leaves are several-nerved ; but the nerves completely hidden under the wool. 
116. H. maritimum (Less.! Syn. 304); stem shrubby, branched ; 
branches long, woolly; leaves half-clasping, oblong or lance-oblong, 
acute, nigro-mucronate, with subrecurved margins, softly hairy above, 
woolly and whitish beneath ; heads many, in dense, flat-topped branch- 
ing, bracteated cymes, 20-2 5-f1., campanulate ; outer invol. scales her- 
baceous, dorsally silky, inner oblong, obtuse, scarious, opaque, with 
spreading, straw-coloured tips. DC.1. c. 204. Gn. maritimum, Linn. 
Th. Cap. 649, and G. molle, Th.! 653. Gn. dasyanthum, Willd. Gn. ser- 
ratum, Linn. Sp. 1194. Burm. Afr. 76, f. 3. 
Var. 8. microphyllum (DC.!); leaves much smaller, blunt, undulate, concolour- 
ous, thickish, densely and equally tomentose on both sides. 
Has. Sandy ground, near the coast in the Western Distr, Stellenbosch, Ecklon / 
e- pe a en eee Drege! Var. B. Kamiesberg, Drege, Ecklon! (Hb- 
3 i “) 7 
_ Stem woody, erect or straggling, distantly branched. Leaves spreading, 3-' 
inch long, 3-4 lines wide, pale-green above, grey-white beneath. Inner inv. scales 
shortly radiating, pale straw-colour, not “ golden.” 
