290 LXXVIII, COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) ` [Gnaphalium. 
Throughout the plains of Inpra, from the Punjab and Scind to Depu, Ava and the 
Deccan.—Disrris. Egypt. 
This closely resembles the G. erispatulum, Del., also a Nile Valley plant, but is 
distinguished by the narrow acute invol. bracts. 
6. G. Thomsoni, Hook. f.; softly cottony, stems rather stout erect 
simple or many from the root erect leafy, leaves linear acute, heads 4 in. diam. 
in sessile globose terminal clusters subtended by slender leaves, invol. bracts 
linear-oblong obtuse scarious brown shining with a strong green central nerve 
half way down, achenes minutely papillose, pappus-hairs not coherent at the 
base, G. uliginosum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 115, not of Linn. 
Western Himaraya; Kashmir, alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson, Stewart, Brandis. 
A very distinct annual? species. Stem 4-6 in. Leaves 1-1} in. Heads in pale 
globose clusters an inch in diameter, subtended by spreading leaves; flowers 
numerous. 
7. G. flaccidum, Kurz in Clarke Comp. Ind. 115; Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 
ii, 182; sparingly cottony, stem simple or branching from the root erect 
flexuous, leaves obovate-spathulate flaccid, tips rounded, heads minute j in. 
crowded into a terminal peduncled globose cluster subtended by leaves shorter 
than itself, invol. bracts hyaline outer broadly oblong or obovate obtuse, inner 
narrower yellow glistening. 
Beneat; Purwal, near Maldah, Clarke. ` Dron, Kurz. 
A flaccid green annual, 4-6 in. high. Leaves 1-2 in. long, very flaccid. Clusters 
of heads quite globose, 1-13 in. diam. pale yellow. Achenes immature. 
43. HELICHRYSUM, Gertn. 
Herbs or shrubs, often woolly or tomentose. Leaves alternate (the lower 
rarely opposite), quite entire. Heads solitary or corymbose, few or many fld., 
homogamous (or heterogamous with few outer 9 fl.); flowers all fertile, or 
rarely the central sterile; 9 filiform, minutely toothed; % tubular, limb 4-5- 
toothed.  Znvoluere of various forms; bracts œ -seriate, scarious, appressed or 
loose, or with a spreading yellow red white or brown long or short scarious 
limb; receptacle various, naked or pitted or with the margins of the pits with 
bristles or pales. Anther-bases sagittate, tails simple or branched. Style-arms 
of O truncate or subcapitate. Achenes small, terete, 5-angled or subcompressed ` 
pappus-hairs l- rarely œ -seriate, free or connate below, dilated and bearded or 
feathery above.—Disrris. About 260, species chiefly of temperate and sub- 
tropical regions. 
The Indian species are not distinguishable by habit from Anaphalis. Gnapha- 
lium macranthum, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1023 and G. chrysanthum, 
Sehultz-Bip. l.e. 1020 are both S. African Helichrysa and garden escapes. Ana- 
phalis Beddomei may be a species of Helichrysum. 
l. H. buddleioides, DC. in Wight Contrib. 20; Prodr. vi. 201 ; shrubby, 
stem robust leaves beneath and corymbs densely cottony, leaves large sessile 
elliptic-lanceolate acuminate 3-9-nerved, heads subcampanulate yellow in many 
globose corymbose clusters, invol. bracts oblong, inner with a short rounded 
scarious blade, achenes scabrid. 
WESTERN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from Bombay to Cochin. Cryton, alt. 
7-8000 ft. 
Stems 4-6 ft. high and branches as thick as a goose- or swan's-quill, tomentose, 
white grey or einnamon-brown. Leaves 2-5 by }-14 in. nerves parallel, grooved 
above. Corymbs 4-8 in. diam., the globose clusters 1-1 in. diam. ; heads campanu- 
