564 ixxi. COMPOSIT-E. [Elichrysum 



oblong terminal cymes about 12 in. long by 4 to 6 in. broad ; 

 involucral scales pluriseriate, lanceolate or oblong, acute, 

 imbricate, not squarrose, scarious at least on the upper part, the 

 innermost ones the longest,' i in. long, thinly woolly on the back 

 about the middle, thickened in lower half except the scarious 

 lateral margins ; the outer ones successively smaller and more 

 woolly on the back ; the outermost ones about -| in. long ; 

 bracteoles similar, small ; flowers all hermaphrodite, i in. long, 

 the corolla ^ in. long, tubular, shortly lobed, the lobes orange- 

 coloured in the dry state ; achene glandular papillose, otherwise 

 glabrous, somewhat angular or compressed ; pappus uniseriate, 

 whitish, ^ in. long, setose; the setse scabrid, connate into a ring at 

 the base, brittle ; receptacle narrow, without conspicuous fimbrillse. 

 Htjilla. — At the clayey 'sides of the Lopollo stream ; fl. and fr. 

 April and May 1860. No. 3479. 



11. E. Steetzii 0. Hoffm. in Bol. Soc. Brot. xiii. p. 25 (1896) 

 [Helichrysum). 



Achyrocline Steetzii Vatke in Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschr. xxvii. 

 p. 194 (1877). 



HuiLLA. — A shrublet, 2 to 4 ft. high ; branches corymbose ; flowers 

 straw-yellow. Humpata and Mumpulla ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3491. 



This is nearly related to E. hamulosum (DC), but it differs by the 

 obtuseness of the involucral scales. 



12. E. benguellense Hiern, sp. n. 



A slender creamy-white tomentellous undershrub, 1\ ft. high ; 

 stems caespitose, subterete, smooth, the ultimate branches below 

 the inflorescence rather elongated ; leaves alternate, linear, rather 

 obtuse at the apex, slightly contracted towards the rather broad 

 sessile base, entire, uninerved, ranging up to nearly 3 in. long, 

 the margins miich revolute ; capitula homogamous, narrowly 

 conical-oblong, ^-^ in. long, 5-flowered, glabrous above, loosely 

 woolly at the base, sometimes sparingly sessile-glandular about 

 the middle, sessile or on very short loosely woolly pedicels clustered 

 many together in dense repeatedly branched terminal pedun- 

 culate cymes f to 1-| in. in diameter ; involucral scales imbricate, 

 pluriseriate, glumaceous, creamy-white below, subhyaline above, 

 erect, concave, the outer ones ovate obtuse and very short, the 

 inner ones successively longer, more lanceolate and less obtuse, 

 the innermost ones sublinear, ^ to i in. long and subacute ; 

 flowers hermaphrodite, ^ in. long; corolla narrowly tubular, 

 minutely sessile-glandular at the back of the lobes; achene 

 glabrous ; pappus whitish or of a pale straw colour, setose, 

 uniseriate, the setse minutely scabrulous ; receptacle not fimbril- 

 liferous, small. 



Bumbo. — In mountainous rocky places near the Maiombo : in late 

 fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 3493. 

 HuiLLA. — Between Mumpulla and Nene ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3492. 



13. E. subglomeratum Less. Syn. Gen. Compos, p. 283 (1832) 

 (Hdichrymm); Harv, in Harv. & Sond. PI. Cap. iii. p. 235 (1865). 



