Helichryswm.] ` Les, composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) 291 
late, in. diam. Achenes distinctly scabrid as figured by Wight (not glabrous as 
described both by DC. and Wight). 
Var. 1. buddleioides proper; leaves larger, nerves 5-9 very prominent beneath, 
heads yellow. H. buddleioides, DC. l.c.; Wight Ic. t. 1113; Clarke Comp, Ind. 116. 
Gnaphalium cynoglossoides, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohen. n. 1043, not of Trev. G. 
sp., Wall. Cat. 2932.— Western Peninsula only. 
Van. 2. Hookeriana ; smaller, leaves 13-2] in. 3-5-nerved more densely cottony 
beneath obscuring the nerves, heads paler. . Hookerianum, DC. Prodr, vi. 201 ; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 116. Gnaphalium Hookerianum and OG. Wightianum in part, 
Thwaites Enum. 126.—Travaneor, at Courtallam, Wight. Ceylon; central province, 
alt. 6-7000 ft., Walker, &c. I can find no specific character for this plant, the 
tomentum varies, as in the type from white to cinnamon brown. 
2. H. Wightii, Clarke mss.; shrubby, branched, all parts with thick 
appressed wool, leaves sessile on the flowerless branches linear-lanceolate thick 
with 5-7 thick close-set parallel nerves tips recurved, those on the flowering 
branches smaller linear recurved, heads in subglobose corymbose clusters, invol. 
bracts oblong acute or subacute scarious. 
Nitcuerry Hrs: Sisparah Ghat, Wight. 
I have seen but one specimen in Wight's Herbarium, it differs from H. buddleioides, 
in the short leafy branches, the narrower leaves, woolly on both surfaces, the smaller 
heads and very different invol. bracts. 
44, CHESULIA, Roxb. 
A glabrous marsh-herb. Leaves alternate, serrulate. Heads in sessile, 
axillary, involucrate balls, each sessile on a broad convex common receptacle, 
1-fld.; fl. tubular, limb narrowly campanulate, deeply 5-fid. Involueral bracts 
2, opposite, keeled or winged, and at length adnate to and including the achene. 
Anther-bases sagittate, tails branched. Style-arms short, linear-cuneate, sub- 
truncate. -Achenes included in the laterally compressed bracts ; pappus 0. 
C. axillaris, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 62; Fil. Ind. v. 482; Cav. Ic. i. 64, t. 
93; DC. in Wight Contrib. 11; Prodr. v. 482; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 126; 
Wight Ic. t. 1102; Wall. Cat. 3183; Clarke Comp. Ind. 116. Meyera orien- 
talis, Don Prodr. 180. 
Throughout NogTHERN Ten ; common in rice fields, ascending to 3000 ft., from 
the Punjab to Chittagong and the Deccan; (absent in Ceylon and the Eastern 
Peninsula). 
Stems stout, prostrate or suberect, 6-12 in. Leaves 2—4 in., sessile, acuminate at 
both ends, nerves very numerous, base dilated subauricled. Heads $ in. diam. and 
under. 
45. INULA, Linn. 
Herbs, rarely shrubs. eaves radical and alternate. Heads solitary, corym- 
bose or panicled, heterogamous, radiate, rarely disciform; ray-fl. 9, l-o- 
seriate, fertile, ligule long short or minute, yellow or white, 3-toothed ; disk-fl. 
9 , fertile, tubular, yellow, limb elongate 5-toothed. Involucre broad or rather 
narrow ; bracts oo-seriate, inner usually rigid and narrow, outer herbaceous, 
outermost often foliaceous ; receptacle flat or tumid, pitted or areolate. Anther- 
bases sagittate, tails long simple or branched.  Style-arms of Y linear, broader 
upwards, obtuse. .4cAenes subterete, usually ribbed ; pappus hairs rather short, 
1-2-seriate, few or many, smooth scabrid or bearded.— DrsrRrs. Species about 
56, European, African and Asiatic. 
Secor, I. Corvisartia. Tall stout herbs. Heads large, solitary or race- 
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