Helichrysum infaustum, Wood & Evans. 



Stems, many from a woody root, diffuse or sub-erect, simple 

 or branching, pubescent, naked below, leafy above, 4-8 inches 

 long. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear, obtuse, entire, cob- 

 webby above, densely white tomentose beneath, 3-8 lines long, 

 1-lf line wide. Cymes on elongated peduncles, globose, 

 crowded, 50-100 headed, 6-15 lines in diameter. Heads cylindri- 

 cal, 4-8 flowered, If lines long, flowers all hermaphrodite, corolla 

 5 dentate. Involucre scales in many series, scarious, imbricate, 

 yellow, outer ovate, inner ovato-lanceolate. Receptacle flat, 

 honey-combed. Pappus and achenes not seen. 



Habitat. Natal. Near Van Reenen's Pass, Drakensberg 

 Mts., 5-6,000 feet altitude. March ; J. Medley Wood, No. 6973. 



Near H. hamulosum E.M., but a smaller and apparently less 

 erect plant with much smaller cymes and heads, more woolly 

 leaves which are not " hook-pointed." Differs from H. Kraussii 

 Sch., Bip. in having all its florets perfect, also in habit and 

 size ; and from both in indument of leaves. After examination 

 of numerous heads, we have not been able to find any trace of 

 pappus. 



Berkheya latifolia. Wood & Evans. 



Herbaceous, 1-2 feet high,racemoso-paniculate at apex. Lower 

 leaves 12-14 inches long, 6-7 wide, ovato-oblong, narrowed to 

 base, acute, petiolate; intermediate ones smaller, narrow oblong, 

 decurrent on both sides of the stem, becoming rapidly smaller 

 upwards, margin spinous, and with a few adpressed dark pilose 

 hairs above, cobwebby below. Heads few (in our specimens 3.) 

 Pedicels erect 2f-4 inches long. Involucral scales 100 or more, 

 in many series, diffuse, rigid, margin spinous, densely covered 

 with minute stalked glands beneath. Spines 1-2 lines long. 

 Ray florets about 40, f-1 inch long, 6-8 striate, lobes bifid. 



Receptacle deeply honeycombed, cells lacerate at apex, teeth 

 few often long acuminate. Achenes glabrous. Pappus scales, 

 lacerate at apex, interior ones narrow. Flowers yellow. 



Habitat. Natal. On side of a grassy hill near De Beer's 

 Pass, Drakensberg Mts., 5-6,000 feet Alt. March. J. Medley 

 Wood. No. 5,960. 



Berkheya montana, Wood & Evans. 



Herbaceous, erect, stems striate, spinous, minutely pubescent, 

 3-4 feet high. Radical leaves none, stem leaves oblong, the 

 margin a little undulate or angulate, spinoso-ciliate finely hispid 

 above, somewhat cobwebby beneath, lower ones 6-9 inches long 

 including the petiole, 3-4 inches wide. Petioles of lower leaves 

 sub-amplexicaul, not decurrent, j-J inch long gradually becoming 



