Anaphalis. | LXXVII, composiraz. (J. D. Hooker.) 283 
** Leaves l- (very rarely 3-) nerved, 3-4 in.: margins usually flat, or slightly 
recurved when dry, but strongly recurved in many forms, more rarely tn araneosa. 
(See also A. contorta and zeylanica in ***.) 
2947 A. G.? decurrens, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2939. "OG. villosissima, Don 
Prodr. 175. 
TEMPERATE HriMALAYA; from Marri and Simla, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 
6—10,000 ft. KmuasrA Mrs., alt. 4—7000 ft. 
I find it impossible to limit the varieties of this in respect of glabrousness or 
woolliness. Royle's specimens have a very little cottony wool, but are otherwise 
puberulous or glandular only, and the same form occurs in the Khasia; Wallich's 
semidecurrens has leaves white and cottony beneath, and others are cottony and white 
all over. A Khasian form connects it with A. contorta. The glandular forms are 
sweet-scented like A. subwmbellata, which has never so broadly branched a corymb. 
14. A. oblonga, DC. Prodr. vi. 174; softly cottony and white, stems 
usually many ascending from the root 4-18 in. slender or stout leafy, leaves 2-13 
in. erect and spreading oblong or obovate or linear-oblong acute from a broad 
3-amplexicaul base rarely narrowly linear cottony on both surfaces, margins flat, 
nerves 1 rarely 3 very obscure, heads turbinate 2 in. diam. sessile densely 
crowded in rounded corymbose clusters, invol. bracts à in. linear-oblong white 
or pink glistening. Clarke Comp. Ind. 112. Gnaphalium indicum, Thwaites 
Enum. 166. G. subdecurrens, DC. in Wight Contrib. 21. G. semidecurrens, 
Wall. Cat, 2947 B. 
Western Guats, from the BanmagoonEN to the Putney Mrs., alt. 6-8000 ft., 
Heyne, &e. Cryton; central Province, ascending to 7000 ft. 
The uniform white cottony clothing and usually short broad leaves with flat mar- 
gins and indistinct midrib beneath, small heads, and acuminate bracts, distinguish 
this at once from the others. It is exceedingly variable in habit. Gnaphalium sub- 
decurrens, DC., is no doubt, as Wight states, a state of A. oblonga with perfect disk 
flowers, the styles of which are 2-fid (as indeed they are in most of the Indian species) ; 
it unites Gnaphalium with Anaphalis. I find the same character in Ceylon specimens, 
whence Thwaites technically referred the plant to Gnaphalium, though it is not 
Linneus’s G. indicum. The globose clusters of heads are sometimes disposed in 
forked cymes. 
Var. elliptica; stem stouter more leafy upwards, leaves broader sometimes 1 in. 
diam. obscurely 3-5-nerved. A.? elliptica, DC. Prodr. vi. 274 ; Wight Ic. t. 1118 (bad); 
Clarke Comp. Ind, 112.—Neilgherry Mts., Wight, &c.—I do not see how this is dis- 
tinguished, except by habit, from A. oblonga. Clarke describes the invol. bracts as 
yellow, but they are as often white or pink. Styles of the ¥ fl. deeply cleft. 
Van. Lawii; stout, erect, very cottony and leafy, leaves 1-3 in, linear obtuse or 
acute, invol. bracts white or pale straw coloured.—Bababooden hills, Law; Mercara, 
Hohenacker. 
15. A. Stoliczkai, Clarke Comp. Ind. 108; grey with thin cottony 
pubescence, stem much corymbosely branched leafy, leaves 1-14 in. linear-oblong 
or ovate from a broad base acute l-nerved, margins flat, heads } in. diam., 
peduncles subcampanulate forming small corymbs terminating the branches, 
