254 COMPOSITE (Harv.) | Helichrysum. 
obovate, acute or acuminate, callous-mucronate, one-nerved, on both 
sides closely and densely white-woolly ; heads cylindrical, 5-fl., in branch- 
ing, terminal corymbose cymes, subsessile; invol. glabrous, its scales _ 
erect, 3—5-stichous, close-pressed, not radiating, oblong, obtuse or trun- 
cate, snow-white; recept. narrow, fimbrilliferous. 
Var. a. Zeyheri (DC.); root leaves obovate; cauline subundulate, broad-based, 
oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or acute; wool copious. H. Zeyheri, DC.! 1. ¢. 196. 
Var. 8. intermedium (DC.); lower cauline leaves obovate, tapering much at base, 
upper subundulate, obovate-oblong or oblong, obtuse, or acute; wool rather copious. 
H. Burchellii, B. intermedium, DC. 1. c. 196. 
Var. y. Burchellii (DC) ; lower leaves cuneate, upper oblong or lance-linear, mostly 
acute, partly infolded, scarcely undulate ; wool less copious and closer. H. Burchellit, 
a. complicatum, DC.! l. c. 196. 
Has. Var. a. Winterfeld, Beaufort, Ecklon! Heerelogement, Zey./ 888. Dutoits 
Kloof and Paarl, Drege! Paarl, Rev. W. Elliott! Winter Hoek’s Berg, Dr Pappe! 
Lamberts Kloof, Wallich! 8. Karroo and Zwarteberg, Drege! George, Ecklon! 
Algoa Bay, Zeyher! Var. y. Beyond the Gariep, Burchell, 2506. Uitenhage, 
E.&Z.! Brackriver, Zey./ 884 and Rhinosterkop, Zey./ 885. (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems woody at base, 8-12-18 inches high, branched in the lower part ; the branches 
erect, elongate, mostly virgate, leafy throughout. Leaves rather close, thickish, $-1 
inch long, 2-6 lines wide, very variable in shape in different specimens. Lower 
leaves almost always obovate; medial varying much ; uppermost narrow, oblong or 
linear. All parts are canescent, but the wool is sometimes close, sometimes more 
loose. Heads 2-3 in a cluster, collected in branching cymes, 1-14 inch across ; 
each head 2 lines long, not a line diam.—I find it impossible to keep H, Burchellii, 
DC. separate by any tangible character. 
§ 17. CHionosTeMMA. (Sp. 134-135.) 
— 184. HL vestitum (Less.! Syn. 314); shrubby below, suffruticose above, 
stem and leaves very thickly clothed with whitish, interwoven wool ; 
ers leaves oblong or linear-oblong, or tongue-shaped, nigro-mucronate, the 
os uppermost on the fl. branches tipped with a scabrous-membranous scale ; 
we” ~ heads (large) terminal, solitary or aggregated, very many-fl.; invol. 
ve globose, radiating, glabrous and glossy, scales snow-white, loosely im- 
bricating in very many rows, all lanceolate, acuminate; recept. clothed 
with acuminate, scale-like fimbrils, longer than the ovaries; pappus 
bristles concrete at base, minutely rough. DC./ J. ¢. 209. Hel. speciosum, 
Thunb. ! Cap. 664, excl. syn. pl. Xeranth. vestitum, Linn. Sp. 1201, non 
Th. Hel. lanatum, Schrank. Xeranth. variegatum, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 384; 
non Berg. Burm. Afr. t. 66, f. 1. Leucostemma lingulatum, Don. (leaves 
wider and less densely woolly). 
Has. Rietvalley, ius. Drakensteinberg, Drege! Near Capetown, also in 
Worcester and Caledon, eek ! Hott-holland, Hundt? Simon's Bay’ . Wright, 374 
376, W. H. H., Dr. Hooker, &c. Zwarteberg, Zey.! 865. (Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stem 1-2 feet high, robust, densely leafy; branches short or long, erect, virgate, 
laxly leafy, the upper leaves smaller, and degenerating to bracts, tipped with a white 
scale. Leaves 2-24 inches long, }-1 inch wide. Heads an inch diameter. 
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135. H. Ecklonis (Sond.!); stems short, herbaceous, ascending-erect, 
with the leaves thickly clothed with Joosely interwoven wool; subradi- 
cal leaves lance-oblong, tapering much at base, nigro-mucronate, cauline 
linear or lance-linear, acute, the uppermost sometimes tipped with a 
scale ; heads (large) terminal, solitary, very many-fl.; inv. globose, radi- 
ating, glabrous and glossy ; scales whitish (“pale straw,” Sond.), loosely 
