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tomentose ped., in the shape, size, substance, colour and ar- 
rangement of the scales, and indeed in everything, agrees pre- 
cisely with the heads of II. obconicum DC. 
The supposed u Cape of Good Hope P ” habitat of II. hemi- 
sphcericmn DC. was not at all an unusual one loosely attributed 
by horticulturists formerly to pi. really belonging to Mad. and 
sent thence originally probably by Masson. 
Sect. 2. Acliyraniha Lowe ( Virginea DC. partly). Heads 
hemispherical ; scales erect but lax and finally spreading 
or subradiant brown or w. often tinged with* crimson 
or purple. Pappus simple equally rough or pubescent 
throughout, not clavellate or bearded upwards. — Shr. 
subproliferously branched with w. or grey cottony 1. 
and branches. FI. in terminal cymes. 
2. H. Monizii Lowe. 
Snowv-tomentose except the heads ; 1. lanceolate or elongato- 
lanceolate acute or attenuate at both ends 4-5 times as long as 
broad (including the petiole) somewhat thickly and closely cot- 
tony-tomentose obscurely 3 -nerved very entire ; cyme rather 
large and somewhat lax or spreading 20-30 or 40-fld. terminal 
rising a little above the 1. slenderly branched often compound ; 
heads rather small hemispherical broader than long, freely and 
distinctly stalked on snowy tomentose ped. longer than them- 
selves, smooth shining purplish-brown ; scales membranous at 
the tip not numerous subequal lax finally erecto-patent ligu- 
late or linear-oblong acute, the lower ovate obtuse, all pale 
drab-brown or greenish-brown edged with purple or crimson 
except their scarious pale tips. — Shr. per. Mad. reg. 1, rrr. 
Iiocky sides of ravines near the sea and sea-cliffs; Rib. da 
Praia Formosa, W. of Funchal, above the bridge; Pico do 
Rancho and thence all the wav to Campanario profusely ; Bra- 
zen Head sparingly ; first observed and distinguished by S r J. 
M. Moniz 1858. Nov.-Febr. — A low shr. with quite the ge- 
neral aspect and w. or snowy cottony foliage of II. obconicum 
DC., so that when not in fl. it has been often probably over- 
looked as a mere luxuriant state of it, this species is a larger 
more loosely less regularly proliferously branched pi. 2 or 3 ft, 
high, with longer looser somewhat flaunting or declining less 
stout and stiffly erect branches. L. very different in shape and 
less stiff or coriaceous in substance. Fl. scentless. Cymes 
larger more loosely or freely branched and compound, with 
the heads much smaller squarrosely or loosely scaly and of a 
fine warm purplish light brown, all distinctly stalked, 2 lines 
long and broad, the scales loosely or squarrosely erecto-patent 
