280 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Anaphalis. 
ALPINE Himaraya and Ter, alt. 12-16,000 ft. The following forms have very 
unstable characters. 
Van. 1. nubigena proper ; stems 3-8 in. slender, leaves narrow and scattered usually 
1-3 in., heads solitary rarely 2-3 $-1 in. diam, A. nubigena, monocephala and 
mucronata, DC. l. c. A. nubigena amd mucronata, Clarke Comp. Ind. 105, 106. 
Gnaphalium nubigenum, Wall. Cat. 2935. 
Var. 2. intermedia; slender, 3-8 in., leaves longer 1-i in. as in var. 1., heads 
1-5 corymbose smaller often crowded. A. nubigena 8. polycephala, Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 106. Antennaria triplinervis y. intermedia, DC. l.c. 270. Gnaphalium inter- 
medium, Wall. Cat. 2936, in part, —This passes insensibly into A. cuneifolia. There 
is a great mixture of this and Var, 1 in Wallich's Herbarium, and from the description 
I suspect that De Candolle had specimens of the following under his eye when 
describing A. triplinervis, var. intermedia, 
2. A. cuneifolia, Hook. f.; softly woolly or cottony, stems several 
ascending slender 6-12 in. often stoloniferous, leaves 1-2 in. linear-oblong or 
obovate-oblong or the lower spathulate 4-amplexicaul acute and aristate, heads 
ia in. diam. corymbose, invol. bracts j in. lanceolate acute or obtuse white. 
naphalium cuneifolium, Wall. Cat. 2934, except. left-hand specimen. Anten- 
naria triplinervis var, cuneifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 270, Helichrysum stoloniferum 
and ? elegans, Don Prodr. 176. Elichrysum nepalense, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 
485. 
TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from 812,000 ft. in Kashmir, and from 
9—13,000 ft. in Sikkim, abundant. 
It is impossible to distinguish small states of this from large ones of nubigena, 
var. intermedia, though on the whole this retains its characters throughout the length 
of the Himalaya. 
3. A. Royleana, DC. Prodr. 272; stems many from tke root 4-6 in. 
woody below leafy, leaves }—1+ in. sessile linear or linear-oblong obtuse or acute 
woolly beneath or on both surfaces 1-nerved flat or margins recurved, heads 4—4 
in. diam. in rounded corymbs, invol. bracts 3-} in. ovate obtuse or acute 
white. 
ALPINE Himataya, alt. 9-15,000 ft.; Kunawar, Royle, &e. 
Van. 1, Royleana proper ; leaves puberulous or scaberulous above, A. Royleana 
and polylepis, DC. l.c. A. polylepis, Clarke Comp. Ind. 104. Pangi and Werang 
Pass, alt. 10-13,000 ft.—Royle's specimens do not show the woody base of the stem, 
which is the only described difference between this and A. polylepis, DC., except the 
size of the heads, which vary much, being sometimes as small as in A. contorta. The 
invol. bracts vary in length and acuteness, and the outer have a broad thickened 
coloured claw as in A. xylorhiza, A. Royleana of Clarke (Comp. Ind. 104) is A. 
Griffithii. 
Var. 2, concolor; leaves uniformly clothed on both surfaces with soft white or 
grey tomentum rarely apiculate. A. chionantha, Herb, Ind. Or. H. F. & T. Gnapha- 
lium canum, Wall. Cat. 2942, in part.—Alpine Himalaya, alt. 913,000 ft. Kunawar, 
Jacquemont, &e. Mana, Edgeworth. Sikkim, alt. 13-15,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Var. 3. cana; stems very numerous and slender, leaves 1-1j in. more or less 
woolly or cottony on both surfaces very narrow margins often revolute. Antennaria 
chionantha, var. cana, DC. l. c. Gnaphalium canum, Wall. Cat. 2942, in part.— 
Specimens with broader leaves not revolute at the margin are with difficulty distin- 
guished from forms of A, cuneifolia. 
4. A. Griffithii, Hook. f.; stems 12-18 in. erect or ascending slender 
leafy, leaves beneath densely clothed with white or sub-cinnamomeous wool, 
leaves 1-1} in. linear acute or apiculate j-amplexicaul above white or grey 
woolly or cobwebby 1-nerved margins flat or revolute, heads many }-in. diam. 
in usually open corymbs, invol. bracts 2 in. ovate or elliptic-ovate subacute 
white. A. Royleana,? Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. & T.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 104, 
