Elichrysum'] lxxi. composit/E. . 561 



Var. mossamedense. 



A low wiiy herb, annual or perhaps persisting for several 

 years ; rootstock long, descending in a more or less twisted 

 manner, hard or somewhat woody, giving off at its crown several 

 prostrate or decumbent stems ; stems nearly simple below or more 

 or less branched, floccose-lanate or glabrescent below, rather 

 slender ; leaves alternate, subliuear or oblanceolate, obtuse or 

 somewhat pointed and often nigro-apicuLite at the apex, not 

 very narrow at the sessile non-decurrent base, more or less hoary- 

 woolly on both faces or sub-obsoletely so, nearly flat or with 

 revolute margins, rigid, ^ to 1 in. long, entire or slightly wavy on 

 the margins ; capitula rosy-red when young, yellowish at the 

 time of flowering, campanulate-oblong, i to i in. long, subsessile 

 or sessile, usually with some loose wool at the base, about 

 20-flowered, homogamous, crowded many or several together in 

 sessile terminal hemispherical or subglobose clusters ~ to '^ in. in 

 diameter ; involucral scales pluriseriate, imbricate, obovate or 

 oblanceolate, thinly hyaline and white (in the dry state) except 

 the unguiculate basal part, glabrous, rounded and occasionally 

 cleft at the white apex, suberect or those of the outer capitula 

 often ■with squarrose or revolute tips, usually somewhat rosy 

 about the middle, the innermost ones about equalling the corollas, 

 the outer ones successively rather shorter; florets all hermaphrodite; 

 coi"olla narrowly tubular, glabrous, yellow ; ovary scattered with 

 minute glands, otherwise glabi'ous ; pappus pale-straw-coloured 

 or whitish (in the dry state), setose, equalling the corolla, brittle, 

 the setie slender, nearly smooth, deciduous ; achenes scattered 

 with small glands ; receptacle small, naked or scattered with 

 minute scales, somewhat alveolate. 



MosSAMEDES. — In saady places at the banks of the river Bero, very 

 plentiful ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 3499. In sandy bushy places at 

 the banks of the river Maiombo, sparingly ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. 

 No. 3500. In dry sandy places at the banks of the river Bero, rather 

 rare ; fl. July 1859. A subglabrate elongated form. No. 3494. 



2. E. helodes Hiem, sp. n. 



An erect herb, with the habit of a Filago, 6 to 12 in. high, 

 more or less covered with a creamy-white felt ; root wiry, sinuous, 

 with slender fibres ; stem slender, simple below, branched in the 

 upper part ; branches erect or ascending, leafy, slender ; leaves 

 alternate, sometimes fasciculate, sublinear, obtusely pointed with 

 a minute glabrous dark-brown apiculus at the apex, sessile at the 

 rather broad not or scarcely decurrent base, |- to f in. long, the 

 margin entire and more or less thickened beneath ; capitula 

 broadly campanulate or sub-hemispherical, about -^ to Jg- in. 

 long, woolly at the base, glabrous above, heterogamous, discoid, 

 on very short woolly pedicels clustered in very dense branched 

 erect subglobose cymes ?j to ^ in. in diameter terminating short 

 lateral leafy bi-anches or on short axillary peduncles ; flowers 

 yellowish; hermaphrodite florets tubular, 15 to 18, some of them 



