MUNERE C e, ds 
Anaphalis. | LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 287 
very many i-i in. l-nerved and cottony on both surfaces, lower spreading 
linear-oblong obtuse with recurved margins, upper erect often imbricate narrower, 
heads 4 in. diam. peduncled, invol. bracts 3 in. oblong-lanceolate obtuse rather 
spreading and incurved white opaque. Clarke Comp. Ind. 110. Gnaphalium 
brevifolium, Thwaites Enum. 166, excl. syn. 
Western PrNiNSULA ; Anamallay hills, Wight. Cryton; central province, alt. 
49-7000 ft., Macrae, &c. 
A very distinct plant, if not a slender very elongate var. of A. neelgerriana (some 
specimens have similar flowerless, short, leafy branches), it appears, however, to be 
an annual, or at most a biennial, and has usually much larger heads than the last 
named. A Khasian form of A. contorta resembles this a good deal. 
27. A. neelgerriana, DC. Prodr. vi. 272; wholly clothed with cottony 
wool, branches very many crowded on a stout perennial woody stock, some 
very short densely leafy flowerless, others 4-10 in. long and flower-bearing, 
leaves ł—4 in. narrowly linear those on the flowerless branches and base of the 
flowering most dense spreading and reflexed, on the upper part of the 
flowering branches erect, all acute with recurved margins, heads 4-1 in. diam. 
sessile most densely erowded or solitary or in corymbose clusters, invol. bracts 
4 in. long elliptie-oblong or lanceolate obtuse or acute white opaque. Wight Ic. 
t. 478; Clarke Comp. Ind. 110. Gnaphalium neelgerrianum, DC. in Wight 
Contrib. 21. G. nilagiricum, Schultz- Bip. in Herb, Hohenack, n. 1038. 
Nirecuerry Mrs.; alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight, Ee, 
Under A. brevifolia, its only near ally, I have indicated the differences between 
that plant and this, but they are far from satisfactory. 
40. LASIOPOGON, Cass. 
Minute, much branched, densely woolly annuals. Leaves alternate, quite 
entire. Heads in crowded clusters, heterogamous, disciform; fl. all fertile, 
outer 9, 2-seriate, filiform, toothed ; disk-fl. D, few or many, slender, limb 
dilated 3-toothed. —Znvolucre campanulate ; bracts few-seriate, inner subhyaline, 
outer woolly; receptacle small, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, tails slender. 
Style-arms of Y slender, truncate. -Achenes subfusiform; pappus-hairs 1-seriate, 
separately caducous, feathery.—DIsTRIB. Species 2, oriental and African. 
L. lanatum, Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xxv. 302; branches many from 
the root filiform prostrate, leaves linear-oblong or spathulate, heads in globose 
villous clusters subtended by floral leaves of their own length, invol. bracts 
linear obtuse scarious. L. muscoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 246; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 
ii. 224, Gnaphalium muscoides, Desfont. Fl. Atlant. ii. 267, t. 231. 
The Punsas; Peshawur, Vicary, Aitchison.—DisrRrs. Westwards to Algeria and 
Spain. South Africa. 
Whole plant 1-2 in. diam., looking like a cluster of cottony balls on the ground, 
both leaves and flowers being hidden by the woolly clothing; the leaves are 44-1 in. 
long, and the heads about 4 in. long. 
4l. PHAGNALON, Cass. 
Shrubs, cottony or woolly, rarely perennial glabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, 
entire or sinuate-toothed. Heads solitary or fascicled, yellow, heterogamous, 
disciform, flowers all fertile; outer fl. 9, oo-seriate, filiform, minutely 2-3- 
toothed; § slender, tubular, limb hardly dilated 5-fid. Znvoluere campanulate 
or ovoid ; bracts oo -seriate, dry, subulate or ovate-lanceolate, tips scarious, outer 
smaller; receptacle flat, naked or pitted. -Anther-bases entire or sagittate, 
