564 LXXI, COMPOSITA. [Elichrysum 
oblong terminal cymes about 12 in. long by 4 to 6 in. broad ; 
involucral scales pluriseriate, lanceolate or oblong, acute, 
imbricate, not squarrose, scarious at least on the upper part, the 
innermost ones the longest, + in. long, thinly woolly on the back 
about the middle, thickened in lower half except the scarious 
lateral margins; the outer ones successively smaller and more 
woolly on the back; the outermost ones about 4 in. long; 
bracteoles similar, small; flowers all hermaphrodite, + in. long, 
the corolla } in. long, tubular, shortly lobed, the lobes orange- 
coloured in the dry state; achene glandular papillose, otherwise 
glabrous, somewhat angular or compressed; pappus uniseriate, 
whitish, } in. long, setose ; the setz scabrid, connate into a ring at 
the base, brittle ; receptacle narrow, without conspicuous fimbrille. 
Huiitita.—At the clayey ‘sides of the Lopollo stream; fl. and fr. 
April and May 1860. No. 3479. 
11. E. Steetzii O. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 25 (1896) 
(Helichrysum). 
Achyrocline Steetzii Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. 
p. 194 (1877). 
Hvriyia.—A shrublet, 2 to 4 ft. high ; branches corymbose ; flowers 
straw-yellow. Humpata and Mumpulla; fil. Oct. 1859. No. 3491. 
This is nearly related to H. hamulosum (DC.), but it differs by the 
obtuseness of the involucral scales. 
12. E, benguellense Hiern, sp. n. 
A slender creamy-white tomentellous undershrub, 1+ ft. high ; 
stems cespitose, subterete, smooth, the ultimate branches below 
the inflorescence rather elongated ; leaves alternate, linear, rather 
obtuse at the apex, sightly contracted towards the rather broad 
sessile base, entire, uninerved, ranging up to nearly 3 in. long, 
the margins much revolute; capitula homogamous, narrowly 
conical-oblong, ;°, in. long, 5-flowered, glabrous above, loosely 
woolly at the base, sometimes sparingly sessile-glandular about 
the middle, sessile or on very short loosely woolly pedicels clustered 
many together in dense repeatedly branched terminal pedun- 
culate cymes ? to 1} in. in diameter ; involucral scales imbricate, 
pluriseriate, glumaceous, creamy-white below, subhyaline above, 
erect, concave, the outer ones ovate obtuse and very short, the 
inner ones successively longer, more lanceolate and less obtuse, 
the innermost ones sublinear, + to + in. long and subacute ; 
flowers hermaphrodite, ;4; in. long; corolla narrowly tubular, 
minutely sessile-glandular at the back of the lobes; achene 
glabrous; pappus whitish or of a pale straw colour, setose, 
uniseriate, the setee minutely scabrulous ; receptacle not fimbril- 
liferous, small. 
Bumsbo.—In mountainous rocky places near the Maiombo ; in late 
fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3493. 
Hvuiitia.—Between Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3492. 
13. E. subglomeratum Less. Syn. Gen. Compos. p. 283 (1832) 
(Helichrysum); Harv, in Harv. & Sond. FI. Cap. ili. p. 235 (1865). 
