Elichrysum] lxxi. composiTjE. 565 



HuiLLA. — Flowers very bright yellow. In elevated bushy pastures, 

 in rocky situations in Morro de Lopollo ; fl. April 1860. No. 3497. 

 Flowers very bright yellow. In elevated bushy pastures in Morro de 

 Monino ; fl. end of April 1860. No. 3498. 



14. E. leiopodium DO. Prodr. vi. p. 200 (1837) {Helichryswm) ; 

 Harv. in Harv. & Send. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 239 (1865). 



HuiLLA. — In the drier bushy pastures annually set on fire in the 

 winter, between MumpuUa and Nene ; fl. Oct. 1859. No. 3472. At 

 MumpuUa ; fl. and £r. Oct. 1859. No. 3473. In bushy pastures near 

 Mumpulla ; fl. June 1860. No. 3474. 



This species is very nearly related to E. nudifolium, and difiicult to 

 be distinguished from it. 



15. E. nudifolium Less. Syn. Gen. Oomp. p. 299 (1832) {Eeli- 

 ckrysum) ; Harv. in Harv. & Send. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 240. 



Gnaphalium nudifolium L. PI. Rar. Afr. p. 19, n. 56 (1760). 



Ambaca. — An erect herb, apparently perennial, very sparingly 

 branched ; flowers deep yellow. In hilly wooded places near Puri 

 Oacarambola ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 3476. 



PuNGO Andongo. — No notes. Fl. and fr. April 1857. No. 3477. 



HuiLLA. — In the more elevated pastures, among low bushes, in 

 Morro de Monino, rather rare ; young fl. April 1860. No. 3475. 



16. E. Mundtii Harv. in Harv. & Send. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 243 

 (1865) {Helichrysum). 



HuiLLA. — Rhizome 1 to 3 ft. long, horizontal ; flowers yellowish, 

 nearly whitish. At the banks of the Lopollo river ; fl. beginning of 

 May 1860. No. 3457. 



17. E. globosum Schultz Bip. in Mohl & Scbleclit. Bot. Zeit. iii. 

 p. 174 (1845) ; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. p. 425 (1847) {Helichryswm) ; 

 O. & H. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 354. 



Gnaphalium, glohoswm Schultz Bip., I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — An erect, apparently biennial herb, with pallid- 

 yellowish flowers. In rocky sparingly grassy moist parts of Quilombo 

 near the prsesidium ; fl. and fr. Jan. 1857. No. 3478. 



30. ST(EBE L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 323. 



1. S. einerea Thunb. Prodr. PL Cap. p. 169 (1800); Harv. in 

 Harv. & Send. Fl. Cap. iii. p. 284 (1865). 



HuiLLA. — A csespitose shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high ; involucral scales 

 scarious, not homy ; florets dark purple ; achene sulcate-striate ; setae 

 of the pappus plumose, connate at the base into a ring. In dry 

 sandy-muddy thickets about Lopollo ; fl. April and May 1860. 

 No. 3482. 



31. ATHRIXIA Ker ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. p. 328. 



1. A. feliciodes Hiern, sp. n. 



A low scabrid perennial plant, 2 to 4 in. high, with the aspect 

 of Phagnalon persicum Boiss. ; rootstock woody, csespitosely 

 branched ; stems wo6dy below, wiry ; branches slender, aumerous, 

 crowded, spreading and ascending, leafy, angular or very 

 narrowly alate by the decurrence of the leaves, dichotomous ; 



