Gnaphalium. polygamia superflua. 425 



2. G. orixensis. Roxb. 



Annual, erect, ^simple. Leaves sessile, linear, wedge-shap- 

 ed, downy. Flowers in sessile and ped uncled heads. Flo- 

 rets yellow, with woolly calyx. 



3. G. multicaule. Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1888. 



Is a native of similar places with the former, also annual, 

 and flowers durini> the same season. 



Stem and leaves like those of G. strictiim. Flowers also 

 similar, but collected in several, small, ternu'nal umbellets, or 

 heads, which is the only specific difference. 



4. G. depressum, Roxb. 



Annual, procumbent. Radical leaves wedge-shaped ; can- 

 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. 



Stem none. Branches many, prostrate, filiform, three or four 

 inches long. Leaves (ew, sub sessile, wedge-formed or lanceo- 

 late, woolly. Flowers exceedingly minute, collected in many, 

 glomerate, teruunal heads, surrounded with white, very wool- 

 ly, leafy involucres. F/ore/« yellow. Fem«/e numerous in 

 the circumference; hermaphrodite from four to five in the 

 centre. 



5. G. albo-luteum. R. 



Annual, ramous, sub-erect, woolly. Leaves halfstem-clasp- 

 ing, woolly on both sides; the inferior ones sword-shaped. 

 Flowers conglomerated. 



A native of Boutan, and the banks of rivers issuing from that 

 country. Flowering time the beginning of the hot season. 



Stem 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, the infe- 

 rior ones wedge-shaped, and obtuse, above they are linear, or 



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