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caducous and pale yellow, about 0*2 cm. long, more or less 

 enwrapping the achenes, and overtopping them (as in the genus 

 Relhania). When the palese fall the receptacle is seen to be foveo- 

 late. I know of no other species of Helichrysum which exhibits 

 such paleae. It will be seen from the above that they are not at all 

 like the fimbrils of the subgenus Lepicline ; for although these are 

 in some species equally as long as, or even longer than, those of our 

 present species, they are not scarious, not caducous, nor in any 

 degree enwrapping the ovaries. 



It may be a question whether this species should not be removed 

 to the genus Cassinia. The only representative of this genus in 

 South Africa {C.phylicoides {DC, sub Bhynea) Benth. d Hook.f.) has 

 a very different appearance ; and, moreover, the paleae in that are like 

 narrower involucral scales with the upper and lower half differentiated 

 from each other in the manner so common in the involucral scales of 

 Helichrysum, Metalasia, &c., whereas in the present plant the palege 

 are not so differentiated, but are uniform throughout ; and in Cassinia 

 do not, as in this species, envelope the ovaries. 



It may be advisable to leave the species in the genus Helichrysum 

 for the present ; but then it should be regarded as forming a new 

 subgenus as above. 



The following additional stations are now known, besides the 

 only one hitherto recorded : Cape Colony ; Perie Mts., near King 

 William's Town, approx. alt. 760 meters, Dec, Tyson, in Herb. 

 Norm. Aust-Afr., 856! Katberg, March, Bev, Baur, 864! district 

 Maclear, alt. 1,800 meters, Jan., Bolus, 10121 ! 



The inflorescence varies from a solitary terminal head to a 3-6- 

 headed loosely fastigiate corymb. 



H. AGROSTOPHiLUM Klatt, in Bull. Herb. Boiss. IV., p. 833, Var. 

 nemorosum Bolus, n. var. (Lepicline § Plantaginea). 



Planta metralis ; folia ovata acuta, radicalia 25-31 cm. longa, 

 9-17 cm. lata ; pedunculus (parte caulis subnuda) 45 cm. longus ; 

 panicula magis evoluta, 15 cm. lata, sub-umbellatim divisa, ramulis 

 primariis 6-7 validis, 5-6 cm. longis, capitulis numerosissimis. 



Hab. : Transvaal Colony, in thick undergrowth in a wood, 

 Houtbosch, distr. Pietersburg, approx. alt. 1,500 met., Febr., Bolus, 

 10991 (in herbb. Kew and Bolus). 



This looks unlike the typical specimens {i.e., Galpin 703, only, for 

 the other number cited by Klatt, viz., Schlechter 6216, is, according 

 to the specimens under that number in my herbarium, received from 

 Schlechter himself, a different species, and apparently H. griseum 



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