Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT# (Harv.) | 249 
117. H. plebeium (DC.! 1. c. 206); stem shrubby, branches virgate, 
closely leafy below, laxly leafy and tomentose upwards ; leaves sessile, 
linear or oblong-linear, narrowed above the base, mucronulate, with 
revolute margins, the younger on both sides woolly, the older cobwebby 
above or glabrate ; heads many, in densely-branched, hemispherical 
cymes, 12—15-fl,; inv. campanulate, the outer scales dorsally silky, the 
inner longer, spreading, obtuse, tawny; fimbrils long, white. 
Has. Cape, Burchell ! 6568 ; Swellendam, Mundt / Ecklon’ (Herb. Sd., Hk.) 
A small shrub with something the aspect of H. anomalum, but having longer 
leaves and hairy involucres, something like those of H. maritimum. Leaves 3-1 
inch long, 1-2 lines wide. Cymes an inch diameter, subcapitate. Inv, 2 lines long. 
118. H. anomalum (Less.! Syn. 303); stem shrubby, much-branched, 
branches canescent ; leaves sessile, linear (rarely oblong), with revolute 
margins, erect or erecto-patent, obtuse, on both sides albo-tomentose ; 
heads many-fl., pedicellate, in simple or branching corymbs; inv. ovate 
or obovate-turbinate, outer scales closely imbricate, rufous-brown, mem- 
branous, glabrous, very obtuse, inner with spreading, golden-yellow, 
opaque, obtuse tips; pappus of one or two short bristles. DC. 1. ¢. 204. 
Gn. niveum, Th.! Cap. 654, non Linn, Manopappus anomalus, Sch. B. 
Var. a. turbinatum; inv. obovate-turbinate, tapering at base, descending along 
the pedicel ; leaves linear, erect. 
Van. 8. ovatum; inv. ovate, obtuse at base ; leaves linear, erect or erecto-patent. 
Van. y. brevifolium (DC.) ; inv. ovate, obtuse at base; leaves elliptic-oblong, 
3~4 lines wide, with subrevolute margins, scabrous and densely woolly, with inter- 
woven white hairs on both sides. (Herb. Sond.) 
Has. Eastern Districts, common. Var. y. near Grahamstown, Ecklon! (Herb. 
Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
A rigid, much-branched bush, 1-14 f. high. Leaves 6-8 lines long, not 1 line 
wide. Heads 2 lines long in B. ; in a. tapering into the pedicel indefinitely. 
119. H. hamulosum (EF. Mey.!); stem shrubby, branching, branches 
tomentose; leaves crowded, sessile, linear, with a recurved point and 
revolute margins, glabrous above, white-woolly beneath ; heads in dense, 
branching or simple, terminal corymbose-cymes, subsessile, about 5-11, 
homogamous; invol. oblong, not radiating, imbricate, its scales pale- 
yellow, glabrous and glossy, erect, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, all 
similar. DC. 1. c. 192. 
Has. Nieuweveld, on hills, &c., near Bokpoort, 3500-4500 f., Drege/ Cape, 
Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
A small shrub, about a foot high, the lower part of stem nude ; the branches and 
leafy and woolly. Leaves }—1 inch long, 4 line wide, one-nerved. Recept. 
fimbril-toothed, not “naked,” as stated by DC. Very near H. Kraussii, but the 
involucres are longer (3 lines long), and scales more acuminate; the flowers all 
hermaphrodite, and the leaves very constantly hook-pointed. 
120. H. Kraussii (Sch. Bip.! Bot. Zeit. 1844, p. 679); stem shrubby, 
robust, branches virgate, thinly canous; leaves sessile, linear, with 
strongly revolute margins, mucronate, at first cobwebby, afterwards 
glabrate above, tomentose beneath ; heads very many, in densely much- 
branched, flat-topped cymes, subsessile, 5-fl. (4 herm., 1 fem.), cylindri- 
cal; inv. scales glossy, semi-pellucid, appressed, imbricated, oblong, sub- 
acute, pale lemon-yellow or straw-colour. Sch. Bip. Comp. Krauss, p. 15. 
