614 _LXIT, COMPOSITE. { Helichrysum. 
radiating ones white. ce -bristles more barbellate towards 
the end) or va 17. H. Blandowskianum. 
Section TII. Oxylepis. — Perennial or undershrubs. — hemispherical or 
ke? peA e ` mie the bracts all with linear claws and radiating lamine, narrow, acute, 
Suz, erer simple or shortly mier not thickened nor more 
E upward: 
— broadly hemispherical, radiating lamiuse subulate- 
ves linear with revolute margins, glabrous or paian 
ps . . 18. H. oxylepis. 
Leaves oblong or lanceolate, cottony-white undernes th 
Lamine of the involucral bracts spreading or reflexed, t 
tone ones eege than their loosely woolly or ene d 
brons claws 19. H. collinum. 
i aa o involneral bracts revolute, all ‘shorter than 
their Zeen woolly ¢ . 20. H. rupicola. 
Involueres eampanulate, Gang ui narrow, scarious. ‘Leaves 
obovate or spathulate, woolly-white on both sides . i91. H. podolepideum. 
ection IV. Chrysocephalum.— Herbs with corymbose flower-hea eads. Involucr 
cea or pra geicnm the TE coloured i in many gent dan — mg 
florets, appressed or squarrose, ciliate. ale florets in 1 or 2 rows, but not so n 
as the hermaphrodite ones. Achenes date or Fish Ces -bristles jen a 
at the base, plumose at the end. 
Leaves usually flat and cottony. Flower-heads often 6 = 8 lines 
is ste eme corymbose, the bracts scarcely squarrose . . 22. H. apiculatum. 
Lea or not cottony. Flower-heads ec? densely 
press die braets often squarrose . 98. H. semipapposum, 
Ge) EE ciliate bracts and iii the piggies ‘of pe ocephalum occur in 
H ri, which has solitary eare mee large radiating involucres, in n Leptorbynch 
tenis and L. ambiguus, which have solitary flower-heads an verbere - coll 
tracted under the pappus, aud in ipis pterochetum, which ee the us pl 
from the base.) 
EcTIon V. Ozothamnus.— Shrubs or rarely undershrubs or he rbs. 
Invo : 
bri- 
oblong-ov = or turbinate-campanulate (rarely larger and ovoid-conical), the em" min: 
cate, not exceeding the D i d end inner A Gest sea - all coloured radiating irt 
much longer thes the florets le floret i ie Achenes glabrous 
‘lous. Pappus-bristles on often thickened or "Wie v donfisulat tewi the ent. 
Flower-heads rather large, solitary, ovoid or turbinate. 
— — ub w e spinescen p Lee? ches. Invo- : ws 
Ine ous, without coloured ti 24. H. Docker. 
Divi branched shrub er usderibrab. E with little = 
nvolucral bracts rigid, colourei ; 
as gid, the inner ones with SCSESES o tur argyrogiottis: 
Flower-heads small in compound or small “panicles. 
Panicles loose, pane almost leafless. Herbs or under- 
shrubs "ith flat leav 
ves nearly toic narrow. Involueres meer yaad 
inner bracts with white spreading tips . s 96. H.n ga 
Leaves distinctly petiolate. Involucres woo olly. 
r Inner involueral bracts with 
white spreading tips . . . . 27. H. cor p 
Leaves narrowed at the base. Tips o a the den 
bracts searcely squarrose . . 28. H. obovatum: 
