352 Lxxiii. COMPOSITJE (OLIVER AND hiebn). [Helichrysum, 



narrowly alate, shining, covered above with easily detached wool. 

 Leaves elongate-linear-lanceolate, acute, sessile, decurrent, subentire, 

 thinly and appressedly pale-tomentose or lanate beneath, scabrid and 

 thinly lanate at length glabrate above, obscurely 3-nerved, ranging np 

 to 4 in. long by ^— ^ in. wide. Capitnla campannlate, many-flowered, 

 ^— i in. long, gold-colonred, on short nnequal lanate pedicels, in dense 

 corymbose cymes 3-6 in. diameter. Scales of involucre 4-5-seriate, 

 glabrous, yellow; innermost linear or linear-oblong, subacute or obtuse ; 

 outer elliptic-oblong, obtuse. Receptacle foveolate. § fl. numerous, 

 as well as the ? fl. Achenes oblong, subterete, nearly glabrous. — 

 Gnaphalium hiafranum^ Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 306. 

 Vpper Gainea. Cameroon Mountains, 7,000 ft. alt., Mann ! 



18. H. foetldum, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. vi. p. 187. A stout biennial 

 herb, 1-4 ft. high, variable and widely spreading ; stem erect, simple 

 below, corymbosely branched above ; branches glandulose-pubescent or 

 tomentose above, terete, faintly striate. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, apiculate, sessile, cordate-amplexicaul, flat, entire, white- tomen- 

 tose beneath, scaberulous-subglabrate above, 1-5 in. long by ^1 in. 

 wide. Capitula hemispherical, J-1 in. diameter, with very numerous 

 florets, on short pedicels, densely crowded in corymbose or sometimes 

 elongated cymes. Scales of the involucre multiseriate, golden yellow or 

 cream-coloured, shining, glabrous, acute, subacute or subobtuse ; inner 

 rather exceeding the florets, linear, coriaceous below, scarious above ; 

 intermediate lanceolate-spathulate ; outer ovate, subobtuse, shorter, 

 woolly at base outside. Receptacle flat, areolate, naked. $ fl. very 

 numerous. 5 A- numerous. Achenes oblong, very small, glabrous. 

 Pappus barbellate. — Bot. Mag. tt. 1987, 5431. H. glutinosum, A. Br. 

 in Flora xxiv. i. p. 277 (1841). H. Mannii^ Hook. fil. in Joum. Linn. 

 Soc. vi. p. 12. Gnaphalium Buchingeriy Schultz Bip. ! in Schweinf. 

 Beitr. Fl. ^thiop. p. 285. n. 2453. G. fcetidum, Linn. Sp. PI. 851 

 (1753). 



There are 3 forms of this species, varying chiefly in the size of the capitula and 

 the denseness of the foliage. 



ITpper Guinea. Fernando Po and Cameroon Mountains, 4-13,000 ft. alt., 

 Mann! Old Calabar! 



mie l^aud. Abyssinia, Schivvper! Petit! Roth! 



Occurs also south of the Tropic. 



19. K. g-erbereDfolium, Schultz Bip. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, sect, 

 i. n. 203. Perennial herb, 1-1^ ft. high ; stem slender, terete, lanate, 

 naked above ; stock thick. Leaves narrowly elliptical, acute, acumi- 

 nate, more or less cottony beneath and subglabrate above, narrowed at 

 the base, 5-nerved ; cauline sessile, clasping, 1-2 in. long by ^-^ in. 

 wide, upper lanceolate or linear ; radical narrowed at base into cylin- 

 drical petiole, dilated and sheathing at base, ranging up to 6 in. long. 

 Capitula campanulate, ^ in. long, 30-flowered, on very short pedicels, 

 in dense small globose clusters, forming a branched terminal cyme 

 2-2^ in. long by 1^2 in. wide. Scales of the involucre pluriseriate, 

 obtuse, of straw colour ; innermost linear-oblong ; intermediate oval- 



