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Lxxiii. COMPOSITE (OLIVER AND hiern). [Eelichrysum. 



Capitula sessile, in globose heads. 



1-1^ ft. high 1. H. 'pachyrhizujn. 



1-1^ in. high 2. H. rosulatum. 



Capitula sessile or subsessile, in branched cymes. 



Capitula oblong. Leaves elliptical . . . 3. iT. Nimmoanum. 

 Capitula campanulate. Leaves obovate . 4. H. auriculatum. 

 Capitula globose. Leaves linear-oblong . 6. H. Quartinianum. 

 Capitula solitary or subsolitary or 3-4 together, 

 large or if small on slender peduncles. 

 Capitula small, on slender peduncles ....&. H. gracilvpes. 

 Capitula not small. 

 Spinous. 



Involucral scales scarious 1. H. citrispinum. 



Involucral scales straw-coloured . . . S. H. horridum. 

 Not spinous. _ 



Involucre straw-coloured. 

 Capitula solitary. 



Capitula ^§ in. long. 

 Leaves lanceolate . . . 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate . 

 Capitula 1 in. long . . . 

 Capitula clustered, 3-4 together 

 Involucre purplish or -white. 

 Achenes thinly pubescent . . 

 Achenes glandular .... 

 Florets not all hermaphrodite. 



$ florets few 



Capitula solitary, white 



Capitula clustered, yellow 



$ florets 00 . 



Branches narrowly alate 



Branches not alate 



Receptacle with conspicuous fimbrillse. 

 Florets all hennaphrodite. 



Tips of involucral scales straw-coloured . 

 Tips of involucral scales white. 



Inflorescence globose, not umbellate 



Inflorescence corymbose, umbellate . . 

 Hermaphrodite florets 1-5 ; the rest $ . 



Leaves lanceolate or linear, all sessile . 



Leaves narrowly elliptical, lower petioled 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 

 12. 



H. Petersii. 

 H. Kirkii. 

 H. Newii. 

 H. nitens. 



IS. H. elcgantissimum. 

 14. H. adenocarpum. 



15. H. argyrosphsrum. 



16. H.abyssinicum. 



17. H. biafranum. 



18. H.foetidum. 



19. H. gerbercBfolium, 



20. H. undatum. 



21. H, oxyphyllum. 



22. H. cymosum. 



23. H. globosum. 



et Sond. Fl Cap. iii. p.^222. 



1. K. pachyrbizuxn, Harv. in Harv. 

 Erect herb from a suffruticose base, 1-1 J ft. high; branches nnmeroas, 

 erect or ascending, subvirgate, terete, leafy, whitish-tomentose above, 

 often snbglabrate below. Leaves linear oblong or spathulate, obtuse 

 or subacute, mucronate, sessile, semi-amplexicaul, white-lanate-tomen- 

 tose, -^-2 in. long by t6~4 i^- wide ; margins entire, often revolute. 

 Capitula campanulate, J in. long, 20-22-floAvered, sessile or subsessile, 

 crowded several together in globular clusters -^1 in. diam., loosely 

 corymbose at ends of the branches. Flowers all hermaphrodite. Scales 

 of involucre pluriseriate, loosely imbricated, hyaline except green sub- 

 coriaceous midrib near base, acute, glabrous ; innermost acuminate, 

 lanceolate above, spathulate below ; outer and intermediate oblong to 

 oblanceolate-oblong, often crimson about middle ; outer imbedded at 

 base in fine white wool. Receptacle small, prominent, naked or with 



