560 Lxxi. COMPOSITE. [Gnaphalium 



2. G, indicum L. Sp. PL, edit. 1, p. 852 (1753). 



G. niliacym Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 480 (1826); 0. & H., Z.c.,p. 344. 



LoANDA.— Involucral scales ovate-lanceolate, straw-yellowish or 

 very pallid, hyaline, the midrib from the base to the middle always 

 green and broad. By muddy drying-up pools between Loanda and 

 Camama near the Calumba road ; fl. and fr. June 1858. No. 3462. 



Barra do Dande. — Leaves, even the cauline ones, distinctly 

 petiolate; capitula whitish-yellowish, with straw-yellowish rather 

 shining involucral scales. In drying-up marshes about lakes near Bombo 

 at the river Dande, not common ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1858. No. 3463. 



GrOLUNGO Alto.— At the outskirts of thickets and in gravelly places 

 by the Chixi rivulet, not common ; fl. and fr. Sept. 1854. No. 3459. 



MossAMEDES.— In sandy-muddy damp places at the banks of the 

 river Bero, abundant ; fl. and fr. July 1859. No. 3460. 



HuiLLA. — In pastures flooded in the rainy season between MumpuUa 

 and Neue ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3461. 



29. ELICHRYSUM Adans. Fam. PL ii. p. 122 (1763) ; Gaertn. 

 Fruct. ii. p. 404 (1791). 



Trichandrum Neck. Elem. Bot. i. p. 84 (1790). Eelichrysum Pers. 

 Syn. PL ii. p. 414 (1807) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL ii. p. 309. 



1. E. pachyrhizum Harv. in Harv. & Sond. FL Cap. iii. p. 222 

 (1865), {Helichrysum) ; 0. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 346. 



HuiLLA. — In rocky hilly places between MumpuUa and Nene ; fl. 

 and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3484. 



Our specimens are of a low stunted habit, 3 to 4 in. high, more like 

 the South African form from the Aapjes river in the Transvaal cited 

 by Harvey than that from South Central Tropical Africa mentioned 

 in Oliver's Flora ; the latter approaches nearer to the following forms, 

 which are here considered as varieties ; — 



Var. huillense. 



A perennial herb, silvery-tomentose throughout; rootstock 

 thick, many-headed; stems numerous, crowded in a Cisspitose 

 manner, 8 to 12 in. long, mostly straight and unbranched for 

 about half their length except the base, leafy, often glabrate in 

 lower part ; branches mostly straight or nearly so, densely leafy ; 

 leaves sublinear, obtuse, sessile, alternate, crowded, entire, more 

 or less spreading or recurving, |- to i in. long, not decurrent, 

 rather thick ; capitula purple, campanulate-oblong, sessile or 

 subsessile, ^ to i in. long, several together crowded in sub- 

 hemispherical head ^^ to i in. in diameter, about 20-flowered, 

 homogamous, with some loose wool at the base ; involucral scales 

 pluriseriate, mostly hyaline except the midrib near the base, 

 usually purple about the middle ; the inner ones oval or obovate, 

 obtuse, glabrous, exceeding the corollas ; the outer ones oblong, 

 obtuse or subacute, shorter than the inner, often somewhat woolly 

 at the back ; florets all hermaphrodite ; corolla yV in. long, yellow, 

 glabrous except the minutely glandular lobes ; ovary glabrous or 

 nearly so ; pappus rather longer than the corolla, setose, white, 

 the setse uniseriate, very nearly smooth ; receptacle naked. 



HuiLLA. — In very elevated pastures in Morro de LopoUo : fl. end of 

 April 1860. No. 3501. 



