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It has the general appearance of some species of the § Imbricata, 

 Harvey, and although it lacks the usually more numerous and 

 squarrose involucral scales of that section, yet I know of no more 

 suitable position, and I would place it there as a somewhat aberrant 

 member of that group, next to H. fastigiatum Harvey. 



H. ScHLECHTEEi Bolus, u. sp. (Euhelichiysum § Eriocephala). 



H. hahitu § Plantaginearum, foliis utrinque glahris, capitulis cam- 

 pamdatis, involucri sguamis acutis araneoso-tomentosis fuscis vel 

 interclum primulinis, receptaculo foveolato foveolis parum depressis, 

 achcBuiis ellipticis suhcompressis tuherculatis. 



Herba rhizomatica 25-37 cm. alta ; caulis unicus vel plures sim- 

 plex adscendens foliatus griseo-tomentosus, sursum pedunculoideus ; 

 folia radicalia oblanceolata acuta, utrinque 3-5-nervia, supra saepe 

 resinosa vernicatave, basi in petiolum alatum 2-2*5 cm. longum 

 attenuata, cum petiolo 8-15 cm. longa, 1 -5-2-5 cm. lata, caulina 

 pauca, sensim minora angustioraque, semiamplexicaulia lanceolata, 

 marginibus reflexis revolutisve, superioribus distantibus linearibus 

 longe acuminatis, in bracteas corymbi conformes transeuntibus ; 

 capitula subsessilia vel breviter pedicellata homogama campanulata, 

 9-12-fl., circa 0-5 cm. longa, in corymbos laxiusculos vel interdum 

 laxissime patentes, 2-11 cm. latos, disposita ; involucri squamae 

 3-4-seriat8e erectae acutae araneoso-tomentosae, extimae ovatae, 

 0*2 cm. longae, interiores oblongae, longiores, intimae apice patentes, 

 fuscae, vel, in duobus exemplaribus, pallide flavidae primulinaeve, 

 ad 0*5 cm. longae ; receptaculum breviter foveolatum, foveolis 

 parum depressis ; corollae segmenta extus papillosa ; pappi setae 

 scabridae, basi brevissime concretae, corolla breviores; achaenia 

 elliptica subcompressa tuberculata, 0*1 cm. longa. 



Hab. : Transvaal Colony ; Drakensberg Eange : at the Devil's 

 Kantoor, approx. alt. 1,600 meters, Sept., Bolus, 7810 ! (in herb. 

 Kew) ; near Barberton, 1,200 meters, Oct., Galpin, 1128 ! ; Eland's 

 Spruit-berg 2,070 meters, Dec, Schlechter, 3852 ! Swazieland ; near 

 'Mbabane, 1,370 meters, Jan., Bolus, 11969 ! 



This has the habit of the § Plantaginea, in which it resembles 

 H. leiopodium DC; from this it may be at once known by its acute 

 involucral scales. But its foveolate receptacle obliges its exclusion 

 from the subgenus Lepicline, and for want of a better place it may 

 be put, by virtue of the tomentose involucral scales, in the some- 

 what artificial § Eriocephala. 



