LXX. COMPOSITE. 189 



double row, copious, of very slender caducous bristles. — Fl. 

 Cap. iii. p. 205. 



Densely woolly, herbaccoiis or half-shrubby, small plants, differing from 

 Ilelichrysum only by their more copious pappus. — 5 species, dispersed. 



78. HELICHRYSUM, Ycaill. 



Heads many- or few- flowered, discoid, either homogamous, 

 all the flowers tubular, 5-toothed, bisexual ; or heterogamous, 

 the marginal flowers filiform, female, very few or in a single row. 

 Involucre imbricating, dry and membranous. Eeceptacle with- 

 out palea>, either nude, honeycombed, toothed or fimbrillife- 

 rous. Achenes beakless, sessile, usually minutely granulated 

 (in H. ericoides silky). Pappus in 1 row, of many or few, 

 slender, scabrous or serrulated bristles. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 207. 



A vast genus of herbs or undershrvibs. Stem and leaves mostly woolly. 

 Involucre either white rosy horn -colour or yellow. Corolla yellow, very 

 rarely purple. — 137 South African species, dispersed. 



79. HELIPTERUM, DC. 



Characters as in Ilelichrysivm, except : Pappus plumose. 

 Heads homogamous. Eeceptacle honeycombed. — Fl. Cap. iii. 

 p. 256. 



Undershrubs or herbs, with woolly stems and leaves, resembling the more 

 sliowy species of HelicJirysum. Involucral scales either white yellow red 

 or purple, glossy. — 12 Cape species, dispersed. 



80. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. 



Characters as in Heliclirysum, except : Marginal female, 

 flower filiform, in many rows, or much more numerous than 

 the central, bisexual flowers. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 2G0. 



Herbs, often annual, resembling the small-flowered species of HelicJiry- 

 sum. Leaves woolly. Involucral scales, in the Cape species, either white 

 pale horn-colour or straw-colour. — 10 Cape species, dispersed. 



81. AMPHIDOXA, DC. 



Characters as in Onaphalium, except : Marginal female 

 flowers without i^appus ; disk-flowers with 5-6 caducous 

 pappus-bristles, barbellate at the apex only. — Fl. Cap. iii. p. 

 263. 



A. gnaphaloides, DC, found in Uitenhage and Albany, is a small, de- 

 cumbent or trailing plant, resembling a Gnaphalium. Leaves oblong-spa- 

 thulate, undulate, thinly silky or cobwebbed. Heads corymbose ; inner 

 involucral scales milk-white, obtuse, radiating. 



82. ERIOSPHJERA, Less. 



Heads crowded in globose, densely woolly gloiiicrules, about 

 10-flowered, homogamous. Corolla 5-tootlied, terete, glabr-uiis. 



