HELICHRYSUM. 
479 
also my friend Mr. Newbould lias occasionally found to be the 
case in Pulicaria dysenterica (L.). Hence there remains no 
constant char, to distinguish Cupularia from Inula but the 
ribless or unstriated ach. 
This pi. was first observed in Mad. by the late I)r. Lippold 
in Sept. 1838. It is quite confined to a narrow belt along the 
south sea-coast, of not more than l|-2 miles in length, and yet 
apparently is perfectly indigenous. In the Canaries, and espe- 
cially in Tenerife, where it is called Altavaca , it is one of the 
commonest and most universal plants. , 
Tribe XV. Gnaphaliece Less. 
The Everlasting-dower Tribe. 
24. Helichrysum DC. 
The Everlastings. 
Sect. 1. Carpantha Lowe ( Clavellata DC.). Heads obconic 
or turbinate compact berry-like ; scales numerous regu- 
larly imbricate erect and always compactly close-pressed 
never lax or radiant, yellowish-gr. or golden-brown. 
Pappus subcompresso-clavellate i. e. compressedly peni- 
cillate or bearded towards the tip. — Low stithy proli- 
ferously branched slir. with w. or grey cottony 1. and 
branches. FI. in dense terminal cymes. 
1. II. obconicum DC. Murrdo or Morrao. 
Snowy tomentose except the heads ; 1. shortly and broadly 
obovato-lanceolate or elliptic subacute or subobtuse attenuate 
downwards times as long as broad (including the pe- 
tiole) thickly and clo-elv cottony or velvety-tomentose sub- 
coriaceous obscurely 3-nerved very entire ; cyme 15-25-fid. 
small simple dense compact crowded terminal scarcely rising 
above the 1. hemispherical or convex ; heads rather large and 
at least as long as broad, very shortly and stoutly stalked or sub- 
sessile on the short stout divaricate snowy-tomentose branches, 
naked smooth and shining, at first yellowish gr. then golden- 
brown ; ped. very short imbricate scaly upwards at the base 
of the heads ; scales membranous at the tip and edges, very nu- 
merous, gradually larger upwards and compactly imbricate, 
obtuse, entire, the lower very small and running down the 
ped., the upper gradually larger, the inner uppermost more or 
less acute. — DC. ! vi. 181 ; Lowe Novit. p. 1(5 or 538. Gnaplui- 
lium crassifolium Ducli ! 194. no. 255 • Lowe in Hook. J. of 
