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260 coMPosIT& (Harv.) [Gnaphaliwm. 
heads globose, corymbose; invol. not radiating, its scales concave, ap- 
pressed, bright crimson, very obtuse. Helichrysum eximium, Less.! Syn. 
319. Gnaph. eximium, Linn. Bot. Mag. t. 300. Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 654. 
Bot. Reg. t. 532. 
Has. Districts of Caledon, Swellendam and George, Thunberg! Drege! Pappe! &e. 
(Herb. Th., D., Hk., Sd.) : : : 
A very woolly small shrub. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 14-2 inches wide, very 
thick and soft. Corymb sessile or subsessile, many-headed, dense, not much branched. 
Heads 4-3 inch diameter, ruby-red. Flowers yellow, about 60, Much used at the 
Cape as an “ everlasting” for winter nosegays, Xc. 
11. H. Dregeanum (DC.! 1. ¢. 214); suffruticose, irregularly branch- 
ed, tomentose ; branches leafy to the summit; leaves half-clasping, obo- 
vate or oblong, obtuse, callous-tipped, recurved at the point, often 
infolded ; heads terminal, solitary, sessile, oblong ; invol. scales woolly 
at base, imbricated, erect, produced into a broad, lance-oblong, obtuse 
or subacute, ruby-red, torn-edged, spreading or reflexed appendage. 
Has. Cape, Dr. Thom / Zwellendam, Onder-Roggeveldt and Zeederberg, Drege / 
(Herb. Hk., D.) 
1-2 feet high, rather robust, not much branched. Leaves 1-14 inch long, 3-5 
lines wide, more or less obovate, obscurely 1-nerved. Heads 3 inch long, nearly 4 
inch across. Tips of the inv. scales as bright as in H. eximium. 
12. H. gnaphaloides (DC.! 1. c. 213); suffruticose, much branched, 
snowy-white tomentose ; branches ascending, leafy, the flowery ones 
naked at top; leaves narrow-linear, long-channelled, obtuse ; heads 
solitary, peduncled, oblong, many-fl.; inv. scales woolly at base, imbri- 
cated, erect, produced into a very taper-pointed, narrow, red-brown, 
reflexed appendage. Stehelina gnaphaloides, Linn. Leyssera squarrosa, 
Th.! Cap. 691. Helichrysum stechelinoides, Less.! Syn. 321. Gnaphali- 
um modestum, Hook. Bog. Mag. t. 2710. 
Has. Sandy sea-shore and hill-sides near Capetown and Simonstown. Also in 
Worcester and Stellenbosch, common. (Herb., Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems 1-1} foot high, woody at base ; the branches long, simple, curving upwards, 
somewhat corymbose. Leaves 2-24 inches long, scarcely 1 line wide, thickish. 
Heads about 4 inch long, 4 inch across. Readily known by its strongly reflexed, 
taper-pointed iny. scales. 
LXXX. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. 
Character the same asin Helichrysum, except, marginal female flowers 
filiform, in several rows, or much more numerous than the central, 
perfect flowers. Recept. nude. DC. Prodr. 6. p. 222. 
Herbaceous mostly annual plants, with the aspect of the small-flowered species 
of Helichrysum. Foliage woolly. Inv. scales, in the Cape species, either white, or 
pale-horn or straw-colour. Name from yvapaaor, soft down or wool. 
Leaves decurrent, lance-linear, green above; stem tall .., (1) undulatum. 
sessile or amplexicaul, not decurrent: 
Inv. scales with snow-white, spreading tips: 
Lys. oblong-lanceolate or obovate; inv. scales short (2) candidissimum. 
Lys. linear or narrow-spathulate; inv. scales longer (3) micranthum. 
Inv. scales pale straw-colour or horn-colour: 
Stems prostrate or trailing, rigid : 
© White-woolly ; leaves linear spathulate ... (4) repens. 
