TTelichrysum. | COMPOSIT (Harv.) 255 
imbricating in many rows, all lanceolate, acuminate ; pappus bristles 
scarcely concrete at base, serrulate along the whole bristle, and barbel- 
late near the extremity ; corolla yellow. 
Has. Cape, Ecklon! (Herb. Sond.) 
Stems 4-5 inches long, simple, incurved. Radical and subradical leaves 23-3 in. 
long, 4~5 lines wide ; cauline shorter, narrower, and more acuminate, Dr. Sonder 
has the following note on this plant :—‘* De Candolle considers this as falling under 
H. vestitum, B. ligulatwm, but from other specimens of that variety, as well as from 
the primary form, this differs by its humbler habit, much looser wool, and invol. 
scales pale-straw (not shining-white), But the specific differences become much 
more evident, when the flowers are accurately examined. For in H. vestitum the 
fi. are yellow in their lower, purple in their upper half ; in /. Ecklonis altogether 
yellow. In 4. vestitum the pappus bristles are united at base into a broad, glabrous 
ring, the serratures remote and very short, and toward the apex the bristle is evi- 
dently clavate ; in H. Ecklonis the bristles are scarcely united at base, along their 
whole length armed with close-set serratures, more than thrice as long as the diame- 
ter of the bristle, and towards the apex scarcely thickened. Achenes in both plants 
similar. This therefore, certainly, is a distinct species.” [I admit the differences, 
as pointed out by my colleague, but do not regard them of specific value. —W.H.H.] 
§ 18. Epmonpra. (Sp. 136-137.) 
- 186. H. humile (Andr. Bot. Rep.t.652); ascending, branches curved 
upwards, leafy throughout ; leaves from a clasping base, subulate, rigid, 
pungent or obtuse, glossy, round-backed, the uppermost (on the flower 
branches) scale-bearing or reduced to membranous scales; inv. turbi- 
nate, the scales rosy, lanceolate-acuminate, radiating, the medial stipi- 
tate; fimbrils linear, very short; achenes smooth; pappus clavulate, 
finely serrated. Less./ Syn. p. 322. Helipterum humile; DC. l.c. 322. 
Aphelexis humilis, Don. Helichrysum sesamoides, Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 425. 
LH. spectabilis, Lodd. Cat. t. 59. 
. Has. Crevices of rocks on mts., Table Mt., and Stellenbosch Mts.; Simon’s Bay, 
Milne! Baviansberg, Genadendal, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems diffuse, 6 inches to 2 feet high. Leaves very variable in length, sometimes 
uniformly 2-3 lines, sometimes 3-1 inch long, shining, glabrous, with wool in the 
axil. Invol. scales varying from pale flesh-colour to deep rose-red. The pappus is 
scarcely serrulate, but gradually thicker upwards. 
137. H. sesamoides (Thunb. ! Cap. 661) ; erect, suffruticose, laxly 
branched ; branches virgate, incurved, leafy throughout ; leaves half- 
clasping, subulate, rigid, glossy, acute or obtuse, keeled, the lowest long 
and filiform, spreading, the rest short, close-pressed, those under the 
heads scaly membranous; invol. campanulate or subturbinate, all the 
scales lance-acuminate, except the outermost shortly stipitate or sub- 
sessile, lustrous; fimbrils longer than the ovaries; achenes mostly gra- 
nulate; pappus barbellate. Xeranth. sesamoides, Linn, 
Var. a. Wildenowii ; inv. scales white or rosy; fimbrils bristle-shaped, very slen- 
ae ‘<* a Less. ! Syn. 322. Helipterum sesamoides, DC. l.c. 214. Burm. 
Var. 8. heterophyllum ; invol. scales white, or the outermost brown-tipped ; fim- 
brils broadish, fiat or conduplicate and keeled (variable in breadth). Hel:pt. hetero- 
phyllum, DC. 1. c. 214. Xeranth. fasciculatum, var. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 279. 
Van. y. fasciculatum; inv. scales pale lemon-yellow or primrose, the outer ful- 
vous; fimbrils as in 8. Helipterum fasciculutum, DC.! 1. c. 214. Xer. fasciculatum, 
Andr. Rep. t. 242. 
