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In addition there is perhaps an ecological difference between the two: while H . 

 milne»redheadii is normally a plant of the miombo or Cryptosepalum pseudotaxus 

 zones, H. patulifolium appears to be a plant of montane grasslands at normally 

 higher altitudes, usually above 2000 m. From H. kirkii Oliv. & Hiern, another 

 though not so close relative, H. milne-redheadii differs in the denser, shorter, 

 spreading or recurved linear leaves ± densely asperulous above, and in the red- 

 dish-yellow or brownish-yellow outer phyllaries — a colour which in H. kirkii is 

 found only in the var. lute o-rube Hum (Bak.) Moeser. Although Moeser (Bot. Jahrb. 

 44: 331. 1910) describes the leaves of this variety as "supra nuda, scabm," 

 Baker's type has the leaves rather cottony above but otherwise smooth, and is 

 obviously H t kirkii. The mention of scabridity is possibly due to confusion with 

 forms of H. patulifolium with reddish phyllaries. 



Helichrysum (§ Polylepidea) flammeiceps Brenan, sp. nov. 



H. patulifolio Baker ut videtur cognata, capitulis majoribus insigniter turbina- 

 tis valde distincta. 



Herba perennis 30-50 cm. alta, valde ramosa; caules complures e caudice 

 lignoso incrassato exorientes, erecti, 1-2.5 mm. diametro, araneosi necnon pilis 

 nonnullis patentibus glandulosis inconspicue instructi, serius brunnei, dense 

 foliosi, foliis marcidis ut videtur persistentibus; internodia brevissima, usque ad 

 3 mm. longa. Folia rigidula, patentia, sursum curvata, subtus albido-araneosa 

 sed hoc indumento marginibus revolutis plus minusve occulto, supra praesertim 

 in parte revoluta pilis haud numerosis brevibus rigidis glandulosis asperula nec- 

 non primo parce araneosa mox glabrescentia et siccitate griseo-viridia, linearia, 

 basi sessilia et praesertim in foliis inferioribus dilatato-auriculata, ad apicem 

 acuta et brunnea, 5*13 mm. longa, medio 0.8-1 mm. lata, suprema parum reducta, 

 inferiora nonnunquam basim versus 4-5 mm. lata; costa supra canaliculato- 

 impressa, subtus prominula, nervis aliis vix cernendis. Inflorescentiae laxe co- 

 rymbosae. Capitula satis numerosa, pedunculos foliosos usque ad 6 cm. longos 

 terminantia, heterogama; involucrum 1-2 cm. altum, 1—1.5 cm. latum, insigniter 

 turbinatum; foliola glabra, scariosa, haud squarrosa, circiter 13*=serialia, extima 

 et infima 1.5 mm. longa, 0.7 mm. lata, pallide brunnea vel brunneo°rubella, ut 

 videtur stipitem involucri efformantia; mediana sensim majora, rubella, superiora 

 ad basim laminae pallide rubello-tincta excepta lutea, ovato=lanceolata, usque 

 ad 9 mm. longa, 2 mm. lata, intima minora; omnia apice acuto et margine minute 

 eroso°denticulata; capitula nonnunquam magis rubescentia vel omnino lutea. 

 Flores lutei, extimi $ uniseriati, 3.5 mm. longi, anguste tubulosi, ad apicem 

 minute 5-lobati; <jT numerosissimi, 4 mm. longi, tubulosi, ad apicem minute 5-lobati; 

 antherae 2 mm. longae. Ovarium glabrum, pappi setis 4 mm. longis coronatum. 

 Achaema nondum matura. 



North Nyasa District: Nyika Plateau, common in open grasslands, often gre° 

 garious, perennial herb 30-50 cm. high, dense, bushy, stems erect from a large 

 woody stock, florets yellow, lower bracts red, upper yellow, 2340 m., Aug. 14, 

 1946, 17218 (TYPUS); ibid., Van der Post s.n. (Herb. Kew.); ibid., Kasaramba, in 

 the grasslands of the wetter side of the Nyika, tufts scattered evenly in grass- 

 land, colour variation at random, yellow through to bronze°red, with intermediates, 

 June 28, 1952, G. Jackson 875 (Herb. Kew.). 



A gaudily coloured and unusually attractive new species. . The involucres of 

 the type, purplish-red below and slowly shading into butter-yellow above, the im- 

 agination may liken to little gusts of flame bursting forth from the ends of the 

 shoots. The shape of the involucre is most odd and distinctive: it tapers to its 

 base, but there the phyllaries, instead of ending abruptly, continue downwards 

 so as to form a stalk-like extension of the capitulum up to 0.5 cm. long. Here 



