120 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [ Vou. I, AHI 4 
PHILIPPINES: 
1836-41, Cuming 9062. 
Luzon: 
Santa Maria, Province of Isabela, June 1902, Merrill 184. 
24. ANAPHALIS DC. 
Perennial, rarely annual herbs, with usually several 
stems from the root. Leaves woolly or cottony, alternate. 
Heads heterogamous, small, in corymbose clusters; involucre 
turbinate, the bracts many, scarious; receptacle naked; outer 
flowers pistillate and fertile, numerous, filiform, 3-toothed; the 
central ones perfect, sterile, tubular, with a 5-toothed sub- 
campanulate limb; anther bases sagittate, the auricles con- 
nate and tailed; achenes very small, oblong; pappus hairs 
of the outer flowers slender, of the inner ones often thick- 
ened at the ends. 
Species 30; in temperate and subtemperate regions of the 
old world, only one species in North America. 
1. A. cinnamomea (DC. Clarke Comp. Ind. 104, 1876. 
Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3; 281, 1881. Antennaria cinnamomea DC. 
Prod. 6; 270, 1837.—A small tufted perennial, 30 to 50 cm. 
high, usually branched from the base. Leaves cauline, linear, 
obtuse not decurrent, entire, the margins recurved, densely 
cottony beneath and slightly so or becoming glabrous above» 
1-nerved. Corymbs small; heads homogamous, the short pedun- 
cles densely cottony; involucral bracts acute. the basal ones 
woolly pubescent, the inner ones rather broad, white petaloid; 
flowers numerous, only a few central ones perfect, the segments 
of the corollas papillose; achenes obscurely striate, very small; 
. pappus light brown, barbellate. 
This genus is here reported for the first time from the 
Philippines, being found in the pine region at and above 
an altitude of 2300 meters. 
DISTRIBUTION: 
In alpine distriets of India, China and Japan. 
