562 LXXI. COMPOSITH. [Elichrysum 
subtended by scales as long as themselves; female florets few, 
circumferential, filiform ; involucral scales pluriseriate oblong or 
obovate, glabrous, about 34; in. long, hyaline and whitish except 
along the midrib near the base; ovary minutely glandular or 
glabrous, small ; pappus setose, deciduous ; the setee not numerous, 
rather shorter than the corolla, minutely setulose; receptacle 
without conspicuous fimbrille. 
Hvuiiia.—-In very elevated marshy bushy places in Morro de 
Lopollo ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 3502. In elevated spongy thickets in 
Morro de Lopollo, in company with species of Drosera and 
Lycopodium ; fl. April 1860. No. 3503. 
This is nearly related to EL. declinatum (Less.). 
3. E. auronitens Schultz Bip. in Flora 1844, p. 680 (Helichrysum); 
Harv. & Sond., l.c., p. 247 (H. aureonitens). 
Hviiua.—In the very elevated peaty pastures of the Morro (Serra) 
de Lopollo ; fi. and fr. April 1860. No. 3489. 
4. E, argyrospherum DC. Prodr. vi. p. 174. (1837) (Heli- 
chrysum) ; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 222 (1865). 
Hvitia.—In fields near Humpata ; fl.-bud April 1860. No. 3487. 
Flowers violet-purple. In places previously cultivated with plantations 
of Sorghum, near Banza de Soba Lopollo ; fl. and fr. May 1860. A 
subglabrous form, with the capitula clustered a few together especially 
at the extremities of the branches. No. 3486. 
5. E. roseo-niveum Marl. & O. Hoffm. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. 
p. 275 (1888) (Helichrysum) ; O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. 
p. 24 (1896). 
MossaMEDES.—A_ prostrate-ascending very elegant herb, annual or 
possibly perennial, the whole plant densely clothed with a snowy-white 
wool; stem branched from the base; branches spreading in all 
directions, very brittle ; branchlets numerous ; capitula campanulate, 
homogamous, discoid ; involucral scales pluriseriate, the outer ones 
narrow, somewhat woolly, the inner ones glabrous oblong and obtuse 
or abruptly pointed ; flowers bloodred-purple or somewhat greenish ; 
receptacle nearly naked, not fimbrillate. In sandy places at Cazimba, 
between Cabo Negro and Praia d’ Amelia, a solitary specimen (6 in. 
high and 15 in. in diameter), in company with Tumboa Bainesii 
Hook. f.; fl. Sept. 1859. Nearly related to E. H. gariepinum 
(DC). No. 3485. 
6. E. auriculatum Less. Syn. Gen. Comp. p. 311 (1832); 
O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 347; O. Hoffm. in Bol. 
Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 24 (1896) (Helichrysum). 
Gnaphalium patulum Berg, Pl. Cap. p. 249 (1767); nec L. nec 
Thunb. G. wuriculatum Thunb. Prodr, Pl. Cap. (ii.) p. 151 (1800). 
GoLuNGo ALTo.—An undershrub, encumbering the lower thickets 
with its sarmentose branches 3 to 6 ft. long, perennial ; the radical 
leaves the largest, ovate-oblong, thick, whitish-tomentose, fallen or 
dead at the time of the flowering. In the densest thickets at the base of 
the mountains of Queta; also in declivities behind Sange on the same 
side, not common ; fi. and fr. July 1855. No. 3483.1 
7. E. Kilimanjari Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc., ser. 2, ii. p. 338 
(Oct. 1887) (Helichrysum). 
