LXX. COMPOSIT®. 189 
double row, copious, of very slender caducous bristles.— 1. 
Cap. iii. p. 205. 
Densely woolly, herbaceous or half-shrubby, small plants, differing from 
Helichrysum only by their more copious pappus.—5 species, dispersed. 
78. HELICHRYSUM, Vaill. 
Heads many- or few-flowered, discoid, either homogamous, 
all the flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual; or heterogamous, 
the marginal flowers filiform, female, very few or in a single row. 
Involucre imbricating, dry and membranous. Receptacle with- 
out palew, either nude, honeycombed, toothed or fimbrillife- 
rous. Achenes beakless, sessile, usually minutely granulated 
(in H. ericoides silky). Pappus in 1 row, of many or few, 
slender, scabrous or serrulated bristles.—#7. Cap. ui. p. 207. 
A vast genus of herbs or undershrubs. Stem and leaves mostly woolly. 
Involuere either white rosy horn-colour or yellow. Corolla yellow, very 
rarely purple.—137 South African species, dispersed. 
79. HELIPTERUM, DC. 
Characters as in Helichrysum, except: Pappus plumose. 
Heads homogamous. Receptacle honeycombed.—Fl. Cap. iii. 
p. 256. 
Undershrubs or herbs, with woolly stems and leaves, resembling the more 
showy species of Helichrysum. Involucral scales either white yellow red 
or purple, glossy.—12 Cape species, dispersed. 
80. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. 
Characters as in Helichrysum, except: Marginal female, 
flower filiform, in many rows, or much more numerous than 
the central, bisexual flowers.—F7. Cap. i. p. 260. 
Herbs, often annual, resembling the small-flowered species of Helichry- 
sum. Leaves woolly. Involucral scales, im the Cape species, either white 
pale horn-colour or straw-colour.—10 Cape species, dispersed. 
81. AMPHIDOXA, DC. 
Characters as in Gnaphalium, except: Marginal female 
flowers without pappus ; disk-flowers with 5-6 caducous 
pappus-bristles, barbellate at the apex only.— Fl. Cup. iii. p. 
263. 
A. gnaphaloides, DC., found in Uitenhage and Albany, is a small, de- 
cumbent or trailing plant, resembling a Graphalivm. Leaves oblong-spa- 
thulate, undulate, thinly silky or cobwebbed. Heads corymbose ; inner 
involueral scales milk-white, obtuse, radiating. 
82. ERIOSPH AGRA, Less. 
Heads crowded in globose, densely woolly glomerules, about 
10-flowered, homogamous. Corolla 5-toothed, terete, glabrous. 
