Elichrysum) LXXI, COMPOSITA, 563 
Hvitia.—A perennial herb ; primary stem erect, with the basal 
branches ascending, 1 to 1} ft. high ; capitula more or less corymbose ; 
involucral scales sulphur-coloured, very much shining ; florets of a 
deep orange colour. On bushy hills near Lopollo, rather rare; fl. 
beginning of March 1860. No. 3490. 
8. E. fulgidum Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. p. 1904 (1800); Harv. in 
Harv. & Sond. FI. Cap. iii. p. 232 (1865) (Helichrysum). 
Var. monocephalum DC. Prodr. vi. p. 188 (1837). 
H. decorum Krauss in Flora 1844, p. 679; vix DC. 
Huvitia.—Broadly cespitose, very beautiful. In elevated rocky 
thickets in Morro de Monino, only in a few spots; fl. April 1860. 
No. 3495. 
The white wool on the lower face of the leaves in our specimens is 
often loose and deciduous; and the stems occasionally bear two 
capitula. 
Var. nanum DC., /.c. 
Huiiia.—In very elevated pastures in Morro de Lopollo, root-leaves 
with flowering stems, April 1860 ; in the same locality with stems 4 
to 6 in. high and rather young solitary capitula, only one specimen, 
May 1860. No. 3496. 
9. E. Mechowianum Klatt in Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vii. p. 101 
(1892) (Helichrysum) ; O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 24. 
GoLtunco AxtTo.—A low herb, perennial, with woody rootstock 
developing its flower-heads before the leaves, after the fashion of 
some species of T'ussilago ; flowers golden- or deep-yellow, the capitula 
occasionally turning reddish. In the more elevated reed-beds among 
the mountains of Queta, flowering soon after the burning of the 
plains, plentiful ; leaves, May 1855 and 1856 ; fl. Oct. 1855. No. 3454. 
Leaves large, argenteo-tomentose. At Catomba Queimada ; fl. July 
1856. No. 3455. 
Huitia.—F lowers yellowish. In bushy rocky pastures near 
Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1859. The radical leaves, which probably appear 
after the flowers, were not seen here. No. 3456. 
10. E, stramineum Hiern, sp. n. 
A perennial or possibly biennial herb, with a thick somewhat 
woody rootstock, 3 to 4 or even 5 ft. high; stems several; leaves 
of the short radical shoots plantaginoid, obovate or oblanceolate, 
subobtusely pointed and apiculate at the apex, cuneate-attenuate 
towards the petiolate base, erect, toughly herbaceous, thinly and 
appressedly woolly on both faces, pale yellowish-tawny beneath, 
rather darker or greener above, entire, unequally triplinerved at 
the base with the strong midrib trichotomous near its middle, 
5 to 8 in. long by 1} to 2% in. broad besides the petiole of 2 to 3 in. 
long; upper part of the flowering stems pale-yellowish-tawny or 
somewhat cinereous, rather slender, loosely branched, thinly and 
appressedly woolly ; leaves of the branches smaller than the root- 
leaves, obovate-oblong, apiculate at the apex, the base rather 
broad and somewhat clasping, entire; capitula homogamous, 
narrowly turbinate, straw-coloured, 3 in. long or nearly so, sessile 
or subsessile or very short bracteolate pedicels, 11- or 12-flowered, 
several together in small clusters arranged in loosely branched 
