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CLIFFORTIA NATALENSIS, J. M. Wood. 



An erect much branched undershrub with dark coloured 

 bark ; young branches and branchlets villous with brownish 

 hairs, older glabrous ; leaves chiefly on short but elongating 

 branchlets, in tufts of 4-8, unifoliolate, subsessile, linear, 

 flat, apiculate, obtuse at base, quite glabrous, 1- veined, 

 thickly glandular on each side of the vein beneath ; 6-lin. 

 broad ; stipules membranaceous, amplexicaul, 2-toothed, 

 glabrous except for a small tuft of rusty hairs at base, 1-lin. 

 long, very persistent, clothing the branchlets long after the 

 flowers have fallen ; female flowers solitary, subsessile in 

 axils of leaves ; bracts 2, semi-amlexicaul, equaling the flower, 

 broadly ovate, acuminate; calyx limb 3-4-parted, tube in fruit 

 hardened, substriate, somewhat wrinkled, lj-lin. long ;stigma 

 broad, compressed, fimbriate on margins ; male flowers not 

 seen. 



Habitat, — Natal, near Curry's Post, 3-4000 feet alt., April, 

 Wood 4449; Mount Gilboa, 5-6000 feet alt, September, J. 

 Wylie, (Wood 10,029). 



HELICHRYSUM ARGENTISSIMUM, J. M. Wood. 



Radical leaves densely rosulate, linear or linear-oblong, 

 l-3£ in. long, lf-2| lin. wide, subamplexicaul, narrowing to an 

 obtuse apex, densely clothed (especially the younger ones) with 

 white woolly matted hairs ; cauline leaves similar but shorter 

 and with hyaline glabrous l-veined tips, the tip in the upper 

 ones J the length of the leaf, in the uppermost ones simulating 

 the involucral scales, in the lower ones much shorter; 

 peduncles erect, 1 -headed, up to 6 inches long, densely 

 woolly ; heads up to 1 inch diam., many flowered ; involucral 

 scales in several rows, lanceolate, acute, spreading ; 4-9 lin. 

 long, the lowest 2\ lin. wide, uppermost 1-lin. wide; all 

 silvery white and shining, quite glabrous, and with trans- 

 verse purplish-red marking above base, the basal portion 

 thickened and of dark colour, receptacle pitted, fimbrilliferous ; 

 corolla shortly 5-toothed, glabrous ; pappus bristles deciduous, 

 barbate, clavato-barbellate at apex ; achenes (immature) 

 turgid, glandular. 



Habitat. — Natal, open stony ground and in crevices of 

 rocks, summit of Mount Gilboa, 5-6000 feet alt., September, 

 J. Wylie (Wood 10,025). 



The collector, Mr. Wylie, states that the plant grows in 

 dense masses of 1-2 feet in diameter. It comes near to H. 

 album (which we have not seen), but according to the descrip- 

 tion it differs in shape of leaves, and by its glandular achenes. 



In age the lowest leaves become glabrous and dark shining 

 brown beneath. 



