286 LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Anaphalis. 
they are not so in the very numerous specimens examined. In habit, pubescence, 
foliage, colour, and inflorescence this very much resembles A. Wightiana, but the 
heads are quite minute turbinate and few-flowered, and the leaves usually taper to a 
very fine point. 
23. A. Wightiana, DC. Prodr. vi. 273; stems woody and branched 
below, branches stout ascending leafy loosely cottony and woolly, leaves 2-13 in. 
erect and recurved broadly linear from a }-amplexicaul base obtuse scabrid 
above loosely cottony and whitish beneath, midrib strong beneath, margins 
strongly recurved, heads } in, diam. sessile turbinate densely packed in rounded 
corymbose clusters, invol. bracts à in. long linear-oblong subacute white glisten- 
ing. Wight Ic. t. 1117; Clarke Comp. Ind. 111. Gnaphalium Wightianum, 
DC. in Wight Contrib, 21; Wall. Cat. 2940 B. 
Nireuerry Mrs., alt. 6-7000 ft., Wight, Ze, 
A good deal like A. aristata, but the heads are much larger, with numerous flowers, 
and the invol. bracts are acute, Leaves usually rounded at the tip, but with some- 
times a recurved awn. 
24. A. zeylanica, Clarke mss.; stem 6-18 in. ascending puberulous or 
glabrate below cottony above, leaves 1-13 in. linear-oblong from a broad 4-am- 
plexicaul base obtuse or apiculate 1-3-nerved, glabrous on both surfaces or 
cottony beneath rarely above, margins recurved often decurrent, heads turbinate 
i-i in, diam. sessile or peduncled, invol. bracts } in. spreading oblong subacute 
or obtuse white opaque with a slender dark claw. A. Wightiana, Thwaites 
Enum. 166 (C.P. 1763 and 568). 
Cryton ; Central Province, alt. 5-6000 ft., in rocky places, Walker, Thwaites, &c. 
A very variable plant; the colour and habit is that of A. aristata, but the large 
usually peduncled heads are quite different, and resemble more those of A. brevifolia. 
Thwaites himself is puzzled by it, and sends it under three forms—1, from Newera 
Ellia, with usually glabrous leaves; 2, from Pedrolatagala, with the young leaves 
woolly on both surfaces, and broader more obtuse invol. bracts; 3, a;form from Newera 
Ellia, referred to G. semidecurrens, with very narrow acuminate leaves 2 in. long, cot- 
tony beneath, and invol. bracts as in 2. This last Clarke inclines to regard as a form 
of A. marcescens, in which the bracts are usually scarious and undulated, and the 
leaves broader beyond the middle and cinnamoneous beneath; it may be a hybrid. 
25. A. marcescens, Clarke Comp. Ind. 110; stems slender woody much 
branched leafy and leaves beneath densely clothed with fulvous cottony wool, 
leaves 1-13 in. spreading recurved or reflexed very narrow linear from a narrow 
base or slightly Vaated upwards glabrous above l-nerved, margins strongly re- 
curved, heads A in. diam. turbinate sessile or peduncled in very dense rounded 
subcorymbose clusters, invol. bracts A-Z in. obovate-oblong, outer with rounded 
tips very membranous transversely waved glistening, inner spreading with a short 
white subacute or obtuse limb. A, linearis, DC, P: Sehultz- Bip. mss. in Herb. 
Hohen., n. 649. Gnaphalium marcescens, Wight Ic. t. 1115. OG. cinnamomeum, 
Schultz-Bip. l. c., n. 134. 
Nonn Mrs, Wight, &c. Cryton; Central Province, alt. 7-8000 ft., 
Walker, &c. 
The slender, woody, much branched, twiggy habit, coriaceous narrow leaves, 
glabrous above, with revolute margins, and close, usually fulvous-brown cottony 
tomentum, well distinguish this species. The heads of the Ceylon specimens are rather 
larger than the continental. A. fruticosa may be a very large state of this. 
**** Teaves 4-1 1n. long, very narrow, margins revolute. 
H 3 
260. A. brevifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 273 ; clothed with white cottony wool, 
stem much branched below, branches very slender erect densely leafy, leaves 
