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Gnaphalium. POLYGAMJA SUPERFLUA, 425 
2. G, orixensis, Roxb, 
Annual, erect, simple. Leaves sessile, linear, wedge-shap- 
ed, downy. Flowers in sessile and peduncled heads. Flo- 
rets yellow, with woolly calyx. 
3. G. multicaule, Willd. Sp. Pl. iii, 1888. 
Is a native of similar places with the former, also.annual, 
and flowers during the same season. 
Stem and leaves like those of G. strictum. Flowers also 
similar, but collected in several, small, terminal umbellets, or 
heads, which is the only specific difference. 
4, G, dephatwuté Roxb. 
Annual, procumbent. Radical leaves weilgesliipied ; 3 cau- 
line ones sub-opposite. Head terminal, involved in white 
wool, and involucred. Florets yellow. 
A very minute, prostrate annual; a native of the bottom 
of dried up ponds, in exposed situations. 
Stemnone. Branches many, prostrate, filiform, three or four 
inches long. Leaves few, sub-sessile, wedge-formed or lanceo- 
late, woolly. Flowers exceedingly minute, collected in many, 
glomerate, terminal heads, surrounded with white, very wool- 
ly, leafy involucres, Florets yellow. Female numerous in 
the circumference; hermaphrodite from four to five in the 
centre. . 
5. G, albo-luteum. R. 
Annual, ramous, sub-erect, woolly. Leaves half stem-clasp- 
ing, woolly on both sides; the _— ones Seite 
Flowers conglomerated. 
A native of Boutan, and the banks of rivers issuing from that 
country. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season. 
_ Siem ascending in a winding direction, with few or no 
_ branches, round and clothed with white, soft wool; whole 
height about one foot. Leaves half stem-clasping, theiinie! 
rior ones wedge-shaped, and obtuse, above they are linear, or 
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