Helichrysum. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 253 
130. H. hypoleucum (Harv.); stem shrubby or suffruticose, branches 
widely spreading, quite woolly, more or less pedunculate attheextremity; 
leaves on narrowly winged petioles which expand at base into clasping 
auricles, cordate-ovate, acute or acuminate, 3—5-nerved, the young ones 
cobwebby, the adult nude and glandularly scabrous above, all very white- 
woolly beneath, membranous; heads in dense, subglobose, glomerate, 
woolly cymes, sessile, about 12-fl., heterogamous ; inv. woolly at base, 
the inner scales oblong, obtuse, cream-white. 
Has. Drakensberg, Orange Free State, 7. Cooper, 1025. Umgate and Ingoma, 
Natal, Gerr. &. M‘K. 1005. (Herb. D.) 
Stem slender, straggling, 2~5 feet high. Branches terete, flexuous, snow-white. 
Leaves on winged, clasping petioles, }~-1 inch long; the lamina 1-14 inch long, 3-1 
inch wide, full green above, snow-white beneath. Heads few-fl. in globose tufts, 
nearly 4 inch diam. Female fl. 3-4. Teeth of recept. subulate, yellow. 
131. H. crispum (Less. Syn. 310); stem shrubby or suffruticose, 
branches widely spreading, woolly, more or less pedunculate at the ex- 
tremity; leaves half-clasping and eared at base, fiddle-shaped, obtuse, 
undulate, thinly woolly above, white-woolly beneath; heads in densely- 
branched, woolly, corymbose cymes, subglobose, glabrous; inv. scales 
oblong, obtuse, cream-white or primrose colour. DC. 1. ¢. 208. Gn. 
crispum, Linn. Gn. divaricatum, Berg. Cap. 250, Th.! Cap. 657. G. 
polyanthos, Th. l. c. (but not p. 643). Gn. auriculatum, Lam. non Th. — 
Var. £. citrinum; inv. scales pale citron or primrose-colour. Zey. / 2875. 
Has. Round Capetown and on the Flats. Paarl, Drege! Zey./ 2861. Var. 8. on 
the Cape Flats, Wallich! Zeyher! (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) ; 
Stems 2-4 feet long, flexuous, with widely spreading branches, all parts woolly. 
Leaves 3-14 inch long, very wide at the extremity, contracted in the middle, ex- 
panded and stem-clasping at base. Heads as in H. petiolatum. 
132. H. auriculatum (Less.! Syn. 311); stem shrubby or suffruti- 
cose, branches widely spreading, woolly, pedunculoid at the extremity; 
leaves half-clasping and eared at base, fiddle-shaped, obtuse, subundu- 
late, thinly woolly above, white-woolly beneath ; heads in rather loosely 
branched, woolly (commonly few-headed) corymbose-cymes, many-fi., 
subglobose, glabrous ; invol. scales ovate, acute or subacute, somewhat 
radiating, milk-white or rufous, DC.l.¢. 209. Gn. auriculatum, Th.! 
_ Cap.657. Gn. patulum, Berg. 
Var. 8. panduratum ; leaves very large, much less constricted below the middle, 
the wide extremity 3-nerved, mucronate, thinly tomentose ; cymes very much branch- 
ed, many-headed ; heads smaller, inv. scales less acute, G. g¢ M‘K.! 2 56, 273, 856. 
Has. Table Mt. and neighbouring hills, Thunb., Burchell, Ecklon! W. H. H.! 
Simon’s Bay, C. Wright / 320, 361; Winterhoek, Tulbagh, Pappe/ R. Zonderende, 
Zey.! 2860; Omsamwubo and Omsameaba, Drege! Var. 8. near D’Urban, and also 
betw. Maritzburg and Ladysmith, Natal, Gerr. ¢ M‘K./ (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Very like H. crispwm, but with somewhat larger fi. heads, laxer inflorescence, and 
more spreading and acute inv. scales. Var. 8. has the dense, many-headed inflor- 
escence of H. crispum, but larger heads, and very large and broad leaves, rather 
slightly contracted below the middle. Stems 2-4 feet long. Leaves }-14 inch 
long ; in 8. 14-2} inches long, 1-14 inch wide above, 4-3 inch wide in narrow part. 
133, H. Zeyheri (Less.! Syn. 309); stem suffruticose, branching ; 
branches virgate, white-woolly ; lowest leaves obovate, narrowed at base 
sub-petiolate ; cauline and rameal leaves sessile, oblong, oyate-oblong or 
