LI 
Anaphalis. j LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 285 
bases. A. tenella, DC. Prodr. vi. 273, excl. Syn. of Don; Clarke Comp. Ind. 
107. A. Falconeri, Clarke, l. c. 107. Antennaria contorta, Don in Bot. Reg. 
t. 605; Prodr. 175; DC. Prodr. vi. 271. Gnaphalium tenellum and simplici- 
caule, Wall. Cat. 2941, 2046. G. contortum, Ham. ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 479. 
TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HIMALAYA, common, from 9—11,000 ft. in Kashmir to 
7-13,000 ft. in Sikkim. Misum1 Hrs, Griffith. Kuasta Mrs., alt. 4-7000 ft. 
Very variable; branches usually woody below, even when slender above, with 
sometimes many very short arrested leafy shoots. Leaves quite linear or narrowed 
downwards, or oblong.—De Candolle’s A. tenella is founded on small young specimens 
of Wallich’s, with linear leaves hardly auricled at the base, and coloured outer invol. 
bracts; but the usual forms of A. contorta have long strict branches clothed with 
almost narrow leaves that taper from a broad cordate base; some Kunawur specimens 
have oblong obtuse leaves with crisped recurved margins, quite unlike the normal 
state of the plant. A very large form from Bhotan and Mishmi approaches A. cinna- 
momea, but has small heads. Some Khasian specimens have leaves somewhat decur- 
rent, and appear to pass into a form of araneosa; others have quite the habit of A. 
brevifolia ; still others from the higher Himalaya resemble small-headed specimens of 
A. Royleana ; and a few forms are with difficulty distinguished from A. virgata, except. 
by the sessile heads. The name tenella is quite inapplicable to this plant in any of its 
forms, and as De Candolle, who first described it under that name, confounded it with 
Don's Helichrysum stoloniferum, his name had better be suppressed for the very appli- 
cable and generally known one of contorta, under which it is well described by Don 
and De Candolle, and figured in the Botanical Register. 
20. A. virgata, Thoms. in Clarke Comp. Ind. 107 ; wholly clothed with 
softly cottony wool, stems many 8-16 in. slender strict erect rigid from a woody 
stock simple or corymbosely branched above, leaves 1-13 in. spreading narrowly 
linear from a broad or narrow base apiculate, margins flat or recurved, heads 3-4 
in. diam. campanulate very numerous peduncled in open branched corymbs, 
invol. bracts 4 in. long linear-oblong obtuse lower half rigid upper white or 
yellowish. 
Kounawtr, Lauur, and Western TinBzr, alt. 8—13,000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson, 
&e. 
A very distinct species; the leaves have usually narrow bases, and vary from AA 
in. diam., in the latter case they are flat and elliptic-laneeolate; the individual heads 
are usually peduncled. A. Stoliczkai may be a form of this. 
21. A. leptophylla, DC. Prodr. vi. 273; clothed with white cottony 
wool, stems 6-18 in. very slender sparingly branched leafy, leaves 1—13 in. sessile 
linear slender apiculate cottony on both surfaces, margins strongly recurved, 
heads few j in. diam. peduncled, invol. bracts 3 in. linear-lanceolate acute or 
acuminate rather spreading white, flowers numerous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 111. 
Helichrysum leptophyllum, DC. in Wight Contrib. 20. 
Nirenerry Mrs., alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 
The eottony white clothing, together with its very slender habit, narrow leaves, 
and usually peduncled heads with spreading invol. bracts (as in Series I.), distinguish 
this from all but 4. brevifolia, which has shorter closer leaves. 
22. A. aristata, DC. Prodr. vi. 274; stem woody below, branches 12-24 
in. stout pubescent or tomentose woolly above leafy, leaves 2-4 in. spreading and 
recurved narrow gradually tapering from a broad auricled $—amplexicaul base to 
a very slender recurved point puberulous or hoary above cottony or woolly be- 
neath, midrib strong beneath, margins recurved, heads 3, in. diam. turpinate in 
densely corymbose globose clusters, invol. bract linear-oblong obtuse erect white 
yellowish or pink glistening. Wight Ic. t. 1119; Clarke Comp, Ind. 112. 
Nirauknny Mrs., Wight, &c. 
The leaves are described by both De Candolle and Wight as shortly decurrent, but 
