Elichrysuin\ lxxi. composite. 563 



HuiLLA. — A perennial herb ; primary stem erect, with the basal 

 branches ascending, 1 to 1^ ft. high ; capitula more or less corymbose ; 

 involucral scales sulphur-coloured, very much shining ; florets of a 

 deep orange colour. On bushy hills near Lopollo, rather rare ; fl. 

 beginning of March 1860. No. '3490. 



8. E. fulgidum Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 1904 (1800); Harv. in 

 Harv. & Send. FI. Cap. iii. p. 232 (1865) {Helichrysum). 



Var. monocephalum DC. Prodr. vi. p. 188 (1837). 



H. decorum, Krauss in Flora 1844, p. 679 ; vix DC. 



HuiLLA. — Broadly csespitose, very beautiful. In elevated rocky 

 thickets in Morro de Monino, only in a few spots ; fl. April 1860. 

 No. 3495. 



The white wool on the lower face of the leaves in our specimens is 

 often loose and deciduous ; and the stems occasionally bear two 

 capitula. 



Var. nanum DC, I.e. 



HuiLLA. — In very elevated pastures in Morro de Lopollo, root-leaves 

 with flowering stems, April 1860 ; in the same locality with stems 4 

 to 6 in. high and rather young solitary capitula, only one specimen. 

 May 1860. No. 3496. 



9. E. Mechowianum Klatt in Ann. Hofmus. Wien, vii. p. 101 

 (1892) {Helichrysum) ; 0. Hoffm. in Bel. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 24. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A low herb, perennial, with woody rootstock 

 developing its flower-heads before the leaves, after the fashion of 

 some species of Tussilago ; flowers golden- or deep-yellow, the capitula 

 occasionally turning reddish. In the more elevated reed-beds among 

 the mountains of Queta, flowering soon after the burning of the 

 plains, plentiful ; leaves. May 1855 and 1856 ; fl. Oct. 1855. No. 3454. 

 Leaves large, argenteo-tomentose. At Catomba Queimada ; fl. July 

 1856. No. 3455. 



HuiLLA. — Flowers yellowish. In bushy rocky pastures near 

 Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1859. The radical leaves, which probably appear 

 after the flowers, were not seen here. No. 3456. 



10. E. stramineum Hiern, sp. n. 



A perennial or possibly biennial herb, with a thick somewhat 

 woody rootstock, 3 to 4 or even 5 ft. high ; stems several ; leaves 

 of the short radical shoots plantaginoid, obovate or oblanceolate, 

 subobtusely pointed and apiculate at the apex, cuneate-attenuate 

 towards the petiolate base, erect, toughly herbaceous, thinly and 

 appressedly woolly on both faces, pale yellowish-tawny beneath, 

 rather darker or greener above, entire, unequally triplinerved at 

 the base with the strong midrib trichotomous near its middle, 

 5 to 8 in. long by 1 J to 2f in. broad besides the petiole of 2 to 3 in. 

 long ; upper part of the flowering stems pale-yellowish -tawny or 

 somewhat cinereous, rather slender, loosely branched, thinly and 

 appressedly woolly ; leaves of the branches smaller than the root- 

 leaves, obovate-oblong, apiculate at the apex, the base rather 

 broad and somewhat clasping, entire ; capitula homogamous, 

 narrowly turbinate, straw-coloured, ^ in. long or nearly so, sessile 

 or subsessile or very short bracteolate pedicels, 11- or 12-flowered, 

 several together in small clusters arranged in loosely branched 



