562 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Elichrysum 



subtended by scales as long as themselves; female florets few, 

 cii'cumferential, filiform ; involucral scales pluriseriate oblong or 

 obovate, glabrous, about -^ in. long, hyaline and whitish except 

 along the midrib near the base ; ovary minutely glandular or 

 glabrous, small ; pappus setose, deciduous; the setfe not numerous, 

 rather shorter than the corolla, minutely setulose ; receptacle 

 without conspicuous fimbrillte. 



HuiLLA. — In very elevated marshy bushy places in Morro de 

 Lopollo ; fl. Dec. 1859. No. 3502. In elevated spongy thickets in 

 Morro de Lopollo, in company with species of Drosera and 

 Lycopodium ; fl. April 1860. No. 3503. 



This is nearly related to E. decJhvitum (Less.). 



3. E. auronitens Schultz Bip. in Flora 1844, p. 680 {Helichrysimi); 

 Harv. & Sond., I.e., p. 247 (//. mireonitens) . 



HuiLLA. — In the very elevated peaty pastures of the Morro (Serra) 

 de Lopollo ; fl. and fr. April 18G0. No. 3489. 



4. E. argyrosphserum DO. Prodr. vi. p. 174 (1837) {Heli- 

 chrysum) ; Harv. in Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 222 (1865). 



HuiLLA. — In fields near Humpata ; fl.-bud April 18G0. No. 3487. 

 Flowers violet-purple. In places previously cultivated with plantations 

 of Sorghum, near Banza de Soba Lopollo ; fl. and fr. May 1860. A 

 subglabrous form, with the capitula clustered a few together especially 

 at the extremities of the branches. No. 3486. 



5. E. roseo-niveum Marl. & 0. Hoffm. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. x. 

 p. 275 (1888) {Helichrysum) ; 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. 

 p. 24 (1896). 



MosSAMEDES. — A prostrate-ascendiug very elegant herb, annual or 

 possibly perennial, the whole plant densely clothed with a snowy- white 

 wool ; stem branched from the base ; branches spreading in all 

 directions, very brittle ; branchlets numerous ; capitula campanulate, 

 homogamous, discoid ; involucral scales pluriseriate, the outer ones 

 narrow, somewhat woolly, the inner ones glabrous oblong and obtuse 

 or abruptly pointed ; flowers bloodred-purple or somewhat greenish ; 

 receptacle nearly naked, not fimbrillate. In sandy places at Cazimba, 

 between Cabo Negro and Praia d' Amelia, a solitary specimen (6 in. 

 high and 15^ in. in diameter), in company with Tumhoa Bainesii 

 Hook. f. ; fl. Sept. 1859. Nearly related to E. H. garieinnum 

 (DC). No. 3485. 



6. E. auriculatum Less. Syn. Gen. Comp. p. 311 (1832); 

 O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 347 ; 0. Hoffm. in Bol. 

 Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 24 (1896) {Helichrysum). 



Gnaplmlium patulum Berg, PI. Cap. p. 249 (1767); nee L. nee 

 Thunb. G. auriculatum Thunb. Prodr. PI. Cap. (ii.) p. 151 (1800). 



GoLiTNGO Alto. — An undershrub, encumbering the lower thickets 

 with its sarmentose branches 'i^ to 6 ft. long, perennial ; the radical 

 leaves the largest, ovate-oblong, thick, whitish-tomentose, fallen or 

 dead at the time of the flowering. In the densest thickets at the base of 

 the mountains of Queta ; also in declivities behind Sange on the same 

 side, not common ; fl. and fr. July 1855. No. 3483. i 



7. E. Kilimanjari Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, ii. p. 338 

 (Oct. 1887) {IMichrysum). 



