390 LXXVIII, COMPOSIT®Æ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Gerbera. 
villous ebracteate, heads rayed, invol. bracts cottony, achenes long with a long 
slender beak scaly, pappus red. Oreoseris ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 2930. G. ovali- 
folia, DC. l.c. 17; Clarke Comp. Ind. 249, Arnica piloselloides, Linn. Amen, 
Acad. vi, 103. 
CENTRAL and EasrERN Hrwaraya; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 7000 ft., J. D. H. 
Kuasa Mrs., alt. 5000 ft., Griffith, Ke, Lower Biema; Karen hills, Masoz.—Dis- 
TRIB. China, S. Africa. 
Crown and young leaves densely woolly. Leaves 2-5 by 1-2 in., narrowed into the 
stout short petiole, glabrous or sparsely hairy above, usually white beneath. Scape 
12-20 in., stout. Head 1-14 in. diam. ; invol. bracts linear-lanceolate, suberect ; ligules 
gin. long. <Achenes } in., very slender; pappus about as long. 
2. G. lanuginosa, Benth. in Gen, PL ii. 497 ; leaves obovate or oblan- 
ceolate acute or acuminate lobulate towards the base or lyrate-pinnatifid or 
petiole auricled rarely entire glabrous and shining above densely cottony beneath, 
scape cottony ebracteate, heads rayed, invol. bracts cottony, achenes slender 
hardly beaked subpapillose, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 249, excl. syn. O. 
pusilla, Oreoseris lanuginosa, DC. Prodr. vii. 17; Deless. Ie, Sel. iv. t. 76. 
Oreoseris lanuginosa, Wall, Cat. 2929 A. C. Chaptalia gossypina, Royle Il. 
251, t. 59, f. 2. 
Western Hiwaraya; from Murree, Fleming, to Kumaon, alt, 4-8000 ft. 
Crown and young leaves silkily woolly, Leaves 2-5 by 3-1} in. (exceptionally 
7-10 by 3-33 in.), petiole long or short, usually sinuately-pinnatifid at the base only, 
lobes rounded, rarely entire or pinnatifidly lobed throughout. Scape 4-12 in., cottony, 
slender. Head 1-23 in., cottony ; outer invol. bracts ovate; inner linear-lanceolato, 
acuminate, suberect; ligules J in. long. Achenes 1 in., ribbed; pappus 3 in. 
Van. pusilla ; leaves 3-1 in., terminal lobe rounded or ovate obtuse or acute, seape 
3-6 in., heads } in. diam. Oreoseris pusilla, DC. Prodr. vii. 17. O. lanuginosa, Wall. 
Cat. 2929 B.— Nipal, Wallich; Kumaon and Garwhal, Jamieson, Thomson. This has 
all the appearance of being a starved state of G. lanuginosa, 
9. G. nivea, Benth. in Gen. PI ii. 497 ; leaves obovate or obovate-spathu- 
late tip rounded pinnatifidly lobed throughout their length, lobes rounded 
obscurely toothed, sinus acute or obtuse glabrous above densely cottony beneath, 
scape cottony ebracteate, invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate long-aeuminate cottony, 
inner large and broad, achenes not seen. Oreoseris ? nivea, DC. Prodr. vii. 17. 
Senecio niveus, Wall. Cat. 3143. Arnica nivea, Wall. le, 
NA, Wallich. 
Leaves petioled, 2-34 by 1-14, gradually narrowed from the rounded tip down- 
wards to the short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above. Scape very slender, cottony, 
longer than the leaves. Heads drooping, 14 in. diam.; invol. bracts with long points, 
glabrate. Flowers too young for examination. 
4. G. Kunzeana, Braun $ Aschers. in App. Plant. nov. ad Cat. Sem. Hort. 
Berol. 1871, 8; dicecious, leaves oblong or ovate acute or mucronate subentire or 
margins lobulate or lyrate-pinnatifid or petiole winged glabrous above densely 
cottony beneath, lobes apiculate, scape glabrous or cottony above with scattered 
filiform bracts, invol. bracts glabrous membranous outer ovate, inner broadly 
lanceolate acuminate, achenes slender hardly beaked scabrid ribbed, pappus 
chestnut-brown. G. nivea, Clarke Comp. Ind. 249. Cleistanthium nepalense, 
Kunze in Bot, Zeit, 1851, 350. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 7-12,000 ft. 
Similar in habit and foliage to G. lanuginosa, but with different invol. bracts and 
pappus, and at once distinguished from it and all others of the genus by the filiform 
bracts on the scape. It is most closely allied to the Chinese G. anandria, Schultz- 
Bip. mss. (Anandria Bellidiastrum, DC A. which differs in the cottony obtuse invol, 
