838 LXV. COMPOSITiB. [Helichrysvm. 



varying in length, but the longest intermediate ones always exceeding the florets. 

 Florets exceedingly numerous, all hermaphrodite or a very few outer ones female. 

 Achenes glabrous. Pappus-bristles numerous, fine, minutely serrulate. 



Hab.: Bare ridges of Endeavour Eiver, and around Port Bowen, A. Cunninghc^i; Harvey's 

 Bay, Sandy Cape (with smaller flower-heads), E. Brown ; also inland border of H.S.W. 



9. H. rupicola (a rook species), DC. Prod. vi. 190; Benth. Fl. Amtr. iii. 

 628. Apparently an undershrub, with the habit, foliage, and nearly all the 

 characters of H. collinum, of which it may be a variety ; but the almost leafless 

 woolly peduncles are usually 6 to 9in. long, the flower-heads rather smaller and 

 flatter, the appressed claws of the involucral bracts very woolly and their laminse 

 smaller and revolute, the longest intermediate ones, although exceeding the 

 florets, are yet much shorter than their claws. Florets and pappus of H. colUnum. 



Hab.: Cape Gtaiion, Banhs and Solander ; rocky shores of Cleveland Bay, A. Cunninglmm ; 

 Dunk and Goold Islands, M' Gilliiray ; Eookingham Bay, Dallachy. 



10. H. podolepideum (like a Podolepis), F. c M. Fep. Babh. Expecl. 13; 

 Benth. Fl. Aiistr. iii. 624. An undershrub or perhaps a low shrub, densely, 

 clothed with a cottony wool. Leaves petiolate, obovate or oblong, 1 to 2in. long, 

 soft and thick. Flower-heads on almost leafless peduncles of 2 to 4in. Invo- 

 lucre broadly campanulate, J to nearly fin. diameter, the bracts numerous, 

 appressed, narrow, with narrow, acute or slightly jagged scarious laminae, the 

 longest slightly exceeding the' florets, of a pale straw-colour or dirty white. 

 Florets exceedingly numerous, all (or nearly all?) hermaphrodite. Achenes 

 glabrous. Pappus-bristles not very numerous, shortly barbellate. 



Hab.: Southern inland localities. 



The species, as well in habit as in characters, connects the subsectiqn Oxylepis with Ixiolana 

 tomentosa. — Benth. 



11. H. apiculatum (leaves tipped with a small point), DC. Prod. vi. 195 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Austr. iii. 624. A perennial or perhaps annual, usually branching and 

 hard at the base, with several erect stems, attaining 1 to 2ft., clothed with a soft 

 silvery tomentum, which rarely disappears from the older leaves. Badioal and 

 lower leaves oblong-cuneate and petiolate, the upper ones lanceolate or linear, or 

 sometimes all narrow, the larger ones 1 to 2in. long. Flower-heads in more or 

 less dense terminal corymbs. Involucres in the original form broadly turbinate 

 or nearly globose, about ^in. diameter, of a bright golden colour, but sometimes 

 much smaller. Bracts small and very numerous, the laminse lanceolate, 

 more or less ciliate, the outer ones sessile, the inner ones on woolly claws, 

 all acute or the innermost obtuse, appressed or more rarely squarrose. 

 Florets often as long as the involucre, those of the circumference in 1 . or 

 sometimes 2 rows, female, slender, with a reduced or abortive pappus, those of 

 the disk very numerous. Achenes glabrous. Pappus of the disk of 4 to 10 fine 

 bristles, strongly barbellate or almost plumose towards the end. — Hook. f. Fl. 

 Tasm. i. 212 ; GnapJialmrn apiculatiivi, Labill. PI. Nov. Holl. ii. 43 t. 188 ; Bot. 

 Keg. t. MO; G. flavissimum, Sieb. PI. Exs.; Heliehrysum flavissimum, DC. Prod, 

 vi. 195 ; H. odorum, DC, I.e. 196 ; Chrijsocephaltim helichi-ysoidex, Walp. in Linntea 

 xiv. 503 ; C. apicidatum, Steetz in PI. Preiss. i. 474 ; C. litcllimtm, Sond. and 

 Muell. in LinnfEa sxv. 514 (the root apparently annual). 



Hab.: All parts. 



Some plants have broader leaves and larger flower-heads than others, but the smaller forms 

 are also mixed with them. 



Var. minor. Leaves narrow but woolly, flower-heads smaller but not numerous, connecting 

 this with H. lemipappomm.^Ii, r«?Hosi's8MKMm,-Hook. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 83,— Chiefly in dry 

 barren situations. 



