250 COMPOSITE (Harv.) | Helichrysum. 
Has. Natal, Krauss/ 459, Mr. Hewitson! Delagoa Bay, very common, Capt. 
Speke! (Herb. D., Hk.) 
1-2 feet high, with many long, virgate, closely leafy branches. Leaves spreading 
or reflexed, 7-9 lines long, 3-} line wide, the whole under surface often completely 
hidden by the strongly revolute margins. Heads 1}~2 lines long, not unlike those 
of H. parviflorum, but heterogamous, with rather more acute scales. Still more 
nearly allied to H. hamulosum. 
121. H. teretifolium (Less.! Syn. 312); stem shrubby, much branch- 
ed, branches closely leafy ; leaves sessile, linear, rigid, with revolute 
margins, recurvo-mucronate, glabrate above, tomentose beneath ; heads 
many-fi., subsessile or pedicellate, in simple or branching corymbs ; 
invol. subglobose, glabrous, loosely imbricate, the outer scales tawny 
or rufous, short, membranous, inner paler (creamy), undulate, spreading, 
very obtuse ; fimbrils twice as long as the ovary. DC./ 1. c. 205. @n. 
teretifolium, Linn. Th.! Cap.644. Gin.ericoides, Lam. Burm.Afr.t.77,f: 3+ 
Var. B. Natalense; inv. scales ovate, acute or subacute, all rufous, or the inner 
paler. Krauss/ 291. 
Has. Throughout the Colony and in Caffraria. f. Natal, Krauss/ Sutherland! 
(Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
A much-branched, ramulous bush, a foot or more high. Leaves 4-8 lines long, 
2 line wide, spreading, mostly hook-pointed. Heads sometimes on long pedicels, 
commonly subsessile. Inv. sometimes very pale, creamy; sometimes cinnamon- 
brown ; commonly 2-coloured, the outer scales deeper in colour. Var. 8. only differs 
in its acute inv. scales. Gn. heterophyllum, Th.! referred here by Lessing, belongs, 
according to Herb. Thunb. to H. erosum. 
122. H. rugulosum(Less.!Syn. 307); stemsuffruticoseat base, branches 
long, simple, densely-leafy, whitish ; leaves sessile, wrinkled and cob- 
webby above, white-woolly beneath, three-nerved, the lower oblong, 
acute, the upper lanceolate, acuminate, with subrevolute margins ; heads 
many-fl., in simple or branched corymbose-cymes, subsessile or pedi- 
celled ; inv. slightly cobwebbed at base, campanulate, loosely imbricate, 
the scales broadly oblong, membranous, undulate, obtuse, rufous, squar- 
rose, the innermost paler, spreading; fimbrils short. DC. 1. ¢. 205. 
Has. Plettenbergs Bay, Mundt § Maire. Assagaysbosch, Albany, Zeyher. Uit- 
cubase, Si) Bushman’s River, Ado, and the Zuureberg, &c., Drege! (Herb. 
., Hk., Sd. 
Stems branched near the base; branches 10-15 inches long, leafy throughout. 
Leaves 1-1} inch long, 2 lines wide ; sometimes the upper ones very long and nar- 
row, } line wide. Inv. either pale, tawny, reddish, or brownish-purple. Less woody 
and branching than H. teretifoliwm, with broader leaves. Sometimes confounded 
with H. eroswm, but always to be known by its involucre. Heads 35-40-fl. 
123. H. capitellatum (Less.! Syn. 305); stem suffruticose at base, 
branches long, erect, tomentose, laxly leafy ; leaves broad-based, half- 
clasping, oblongo-lanceolate, acuminate, 3-nerved, loosely woolly on 
both sides (the old becoming naked above); heads in densely much 
branched, subglobose cymes, 12-15-fl., heterogamous ; inv. glabrous, 
campanulate, scales loosely imbricated, squarrose, undulate, submem- 
branous, obtuse, rufous or cream-coloured; fimbrils long. DC.1.¢. 206. 
Graph. capitellatum, Th.! Cap. 653. 
Has. Table Mt. sides, Bergius, Eckl.! Cape Flats, Wallich/ French Hoek, Thunb. 
Common in the Western Districts, Swellendam, Mundt, &c. (Hb. Th. D., Hk., Sd.) 
