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151. BRYOMORPHE ZEYHERI, Harv. ( Composite.) 
Gey. Cuar.— Capitulum pluriflorum, heterogamum; fl. radii paucis 
ligulatis foemineis, disci hermaphroditis 5-dentatis. Znvoluert squame 
pauciseriatee, imbricata, lineares, discrete. Receptaculum nadum, con- 
vexulum. Anthere basi caudate. Styli rami truncati.  Achenium 
glabrum, erostre, sessile. Pappus pilosus uniserialis, setis tenuibus 
rectis scaberulis. 
Bryomorphe Zeyheri, Harv.— Helichrysum aretioides, Turcz. Bull. 
d. 1. soc. imp. Mose. XXIV. IL, p. 79.  Klenzea lycopodiordes, Sch. 
Bip. in Walp. Rep. Bot. Syst. 2. p. 973. 
Has.—Summits of Table and Hott. Holl. mountains, common, but rarely flowering, 
Zeyher! 2908. Summit of Genadendahl mountain, 5000 f., Dr. Roser, 42. (Herb. 
0, D.) 
Descr.—Stems 1-2 inches high, simple or forked, closely leafy 
throughout, and densely crowded in compact, level-topped cushion-like 
tufts or masses. Leaves 2 lines long, 4 line wide, linear-lanceolate, 
acute, closely imbricating, erect, faintly nerved beneath, on both sides 
silky-silvery. Heads at the ends of the branches, sessile, the involucres 
half or wholly hidden among the uppermost leaves. Inv. scales in 2-3 ° 
rows, linear-oblong, membrane-edged, with a green midrib and a brown, 
obtuse, and denticulate apex, caducous, falling with the flowers. Recept. 
nude, convex. Rays 4-5, broadly oblong, 3-toothed, white or rosy, 
shorter than the inv. scales. Diésc-flowers rosy purple. Anthers tailed. 
Pappus uniseriate, of several slender, scabrous, unequal, straight bristles. 
Achene glabrous, sessile. 
This curious little plant appears to have been first noticed by Mr. 
Zeyher, now about forty years ago, as I find by a note preserved in Hb. 
Hooker. It either flowers but rarely, or at a season when few visit the 
mountains where it grows, and has thus escaped many a collector who 
has probably walked over its mossy cushions. The specimens distributed 
by Zeyher were in but poor condition; and Turezanninow, in describing 
them, overlooked the rays, and consequently referred this plant to He- 
lichrysum. My specimens from Dr. Roser are very conspicuously radiate. 
Schultz (Bip.) places this plant in his genus A’/enzea, which he founds 
on two Abyssinian species; one of which is undoubtedly an Athrixia; 
the other (of which I have no perfect flower-heads) looks like a Heli- 
chrysum. 
Fig. 1, part of a tuft; natural size. Fig. 2, a flower-head: 3, aleaf; 4, outer and 
inner inv. scales; 5, receptacle; 6, a ray-flower; 7, a disc-flower ; 8, anther; 9, apex 
of style, from a dise-flower; 10, apex of a pappus-bristle; variously magnified. 
152. CHRYSANTHEMUM OSMITOIDES, Harv. ( Composite.) 
C. osmitoides: caulibus erectis basi suffruticosis simpliciusculis 
striato-sulcatis puberulis demum glabratis foliosis, foliis alternis sessili- 
bus lanceolatis acuminatis argute serratis glabris, supremis minoribus 
subintegris; capitulis breve pedicellatis terminalibus v. 2-3-corymbosis 
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