560 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [Gnaphalium 
2. G. indicum L. Sp. Pl. edit. 1, p. 852 (1753). 
G. niliacum Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 480 (1826); O. & H.,2.c.,p. 344. 
Loanpa.—Involucral scales ovate-lanceolate, straw-yellowish or 
very pallid, hyaline, the midrib from the base to the middle always 
green and broad. By muddy drying-up pools between Loanda and 
Camama near the Calumba road ; fl. and fr. June 1858. No. 3462. 
Barra DO DANprE.—Leaves, even the cauline ones, distinctly 
petiolate ; capitula whitish-yellowish, with straw-yellowish rather 
shining involucral scales. In drying-up marshes about lakes near Bombo 
at the river Dande, not common; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 3463. 
GoLuNnGo ALTo.—At the outskirts of thickets and in gravelly places 
by the Chixi rivulet, not common ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3459. 
MossAMEDES.—-In sandy-muddy damp places at the banks of the 
‘ river Bero, abundant ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 3460. 
HviLLa.—In pastures flooded in the rainy season between Mumpulla 
and Nene ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3461. 
29. ELICHRYSUM Adans. Fam. Pl. ii. p. 122 (1763) ; Gaertn. 
Frucet. ii. p. 404 (1791). 
Trichandrum Neck. Elem. Bot. i. p. 84 (1790). Helichrysum Pers. 
Syn. Pl. ii. p. 414 (1807); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. p. 309. 
1. E, pachyrhizum Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 222 
(1865), (Helichrysum) ; O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, iii. p. 346. 
Huviiia.—In rocky hilly places between Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. 
and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3484. 
Our specimens are of a low stunted habit, 3 to 4 in. high, more like 
the South African form from the Aapjes river in the Transvaal cited 
by Harvey than that from South Central Tropical Africa mentioned 
in Oliver’s Flora ; the latter approaches nearer to the following forms, 
which are here considered as varieties :— 
Var. huillense. 
A perennial herb, silvery-tomentose throughout; rootstock 
thick, many-headed; stems numerous, crowded in a czespitose 
manner, 8 to 12 in. long, mostly straight and unbranched for 
about half their length except the base, leafy, often glabrate in 
lower part; branches mostly straight or nearly so, densely leafy ; 
leaves sublinear, obtuse, sessile, alternate, crowded, entire, more 
or less spreading or recurving, + to + in. long, not decurrent, 
rather thick; capitula purple, campanulate-oblong, sessile or 
subsessile, { to + in. long, several together crowded in sub- 
hemispherical head + to 4 in. in diameter, about 20-flowered, 
homogamous, with some loose wool at the base; involucral scales 
pluriseriate, mostly hyaline except the midrib near the base, 
usually purple about the middle ; the inner ones oval or obovate, 
obtuse, glabrous, exceeding the corollas; the outer ones oblong, 
obtuse or subacute, shorter than the inner, often somewhat woolly 
at the back; florets all hermaphrodite ; corolla 54, in. long, yellow, 
glabrous except the minutely glandular lobes; ovary glabrous or 
nearly so; pappus rather longer than the corolla, setose, white, 
the sete uniseriate, very nearly smooth ; receptacle naked. 
Hvitia.—In very elevated pastures in Morro de Lopollo ; fl. end of 
April 1860. No. 3501. 
