Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) | 251 
Allied to H. rugulosum in foliage and involucres ; but with much smaller fl. heads, 
longer fimbrils, &c. Leaves spreading or deflexed, 3-1 inch long, 2-4 lines wide at 
base. Heads 1} line long. Dreye’s specimen of “ H. capitell. B. mollius, DC.” in 
Hb. Hook. is a more woolly state of this species ; but specimens also from Drege, 
and similarly marked in Hb. Sond., belong to H. eroswm, -y. concolorum. 
124. H. erosum (Harv.); stem shrubby, much branched, branches 
whitish, leafy ; leaves sessile, linear or oblong, the broader 3-nerved, 
the narrow 1-nerved, all subacute or obtuse, whitish-tomentose on the 
under, glabrous or cobwebby on the upper surface (in var. y. woolly on 
both sides) ; heads numerous, in simple or branching corymbs, subsessile, 
20-fl., heterogamous; inv. oblong, glabrous or glossy, not radiating, the 
scales closely imbricated, concave, erect, obtuse, cream-colour or rufous ; 
fimbrils short. Hel. rosum, Less. Syn. 306. DC.l.c.p. 205. Gn. rosum, 
Berg. Cap. 260. Gn. stoechas, Th.! Cap. 647, non L., also Gn. hetero- 
phyllum, Th. !Cap. 644. 
Var. a, angustifolium; lowest leaves narrow oblong, upper linear. 
Var. 8. latifolium; lower and medial leaves oblong, distinctly 3-nerved; upper 
lanceolate. 
Var. y. concolorum (Sond. !); leaves on both sides densely white-woolly. H. con- 
colorum, DC.! l.c. p. 206, 
Has, Cape, Thunbery, Krebs. 130,209. Paarlberg and Bosjesveld, Drege/ Stellen- 
bosch, Swellendam, and Uit., Ecklon/ Uitenhage and Albany, common. Var. y. 
George, Swell., and Uit., Eckl.’ Vanstaadensberg, Zey./ (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Very variable in foliage and pubescence: constant in its involucre. Except in 
being copiously woolly, H. concolorum does not differ, and this character varies very 
much in different specimens. Dr. Sonder informs me that a specimen in Hb. Berol. 
marked by Lessing as “‘ H. rosum” entirely agrees with DC.’s concolorum. I venture 
to substitute “erosum” for the unmeaning ‘‘ rosum” of authors. Bergius, with whom 
this latter word originated, says of the leaves “ margine reflexo-wndulato dentatis ;” 
a character nearly synonymous with erosis. The ‘‘e” apparently dropped out by a 
printer’s error. 
125, H. Dregeanum (Sond. and Harv.); stem half-shrubby, slender, 
diffuse, branching, branches closely leafy ; leaves sessile, lance-linear or 
linear, one-nerved, with revolute margins, on both sides loosely woolly 
or nude above ; heads 3—4 or several, corymbulose, subsessile at the 
ends of the branches 20-25-fl., heterogamous; inv, glabrous, campanu- 
late, its scales imbricate, membranous, pellucid, very obtuse, rufous; 
recept. with short, toothlike prominences. WH. scabrum, DC.! non Less. 
(quoad specim. Drege!) p. 205. 
Has. Cape, Hb. Ecklon! Stormberg, 5~6000-f., Drege! Witteberg, Albert, 7. 
Cooper, 617. (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.) 
A small, slender shrublet, with diffuse or trailing stems, anderect branches. Leaves 
imbricating, 4—6 lines long, 4-13 line wide. Heads 2lineslong. De Candolle’s descript- 
ion does not agree with * specimens, in which the leaves are neither “densely 
punctato-scabrid ” nor “‘ hispidulous ” nor ‘‘acuminated.” Mr. Cooper's specimens 
are rather less woolly, more luxuriant, and with as many as 12-20 heads in a corymb. 
126. H. tricostatum (Less. Syn. 310); stem shrubby, branches spread- 
ing, virgate, tomentose; leafy nearly to the summit; leaves tapering to 
the base, minutely petiolate, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, acute, with 
subrecurved margins, 3-nerved, thinly tomentose, the uppermost narrow 
and one-nerved; heads in dense, branching, flat-topped cymes, 20-f1., 
