Anaphalis?[ Compositce. 27 



sagittate, scarcely tailed ; style-arms of bisexual fl. short, 

 obtuse ; achene triangular-compressed, strongly ciliate on 

 edge, pappus of 2 or 3 strong bristles or none. — Sp. 3 ; 2 in 

 Fl. B. Ind. 



B. petiolare, DC. in Wight., Contrib. 12 (1834). 

 Arn. in Mag. Zool. Bot. ii. 421. Trim, in Journ. Bot. xxiii. 171 ; Syst. 

 Cat. Ceyl. PI. 47. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 276 (not given for Ceylon"). Wight, Ic. t. 1092. 



A straggling shrub climbing by means of its divaricate 

 branches, woody stem attaining nearly i in. diam., bark 

 grey, longitudinally furrowed, twigs glabrous ; 1. 2-4 in., 

 shortly stalked, ovate, rounded or acute at base, tapering to 

 acute apex, entire, margin usually recurved, glabrous above, 

 slightly hairy on veins beneath, thin, bright light green, 

 venation finely reticulate ; compound heads about % in., 

 stalked, 2-5 in a terminal cyme, stalks 4-angled, glabrous, 

 heads numerous, about 100 in each compound head, about 

 \ in. ; cor. of outer fl. very short, style-arms filiform, exserted, 

 cor. of bisexual fl. with 5 recurved lobes, anth. black ; achene 

 shining, dark brown, cilia and pappus-bristles (when present) 

 white. 



Dry region, very rare, and confined to the East of the Island. The 

 original specimens were collected, ' Prope Uganda-malej ' on '29 Feb., 

 1796' — Wight says by Klein; but this is apparently an error for Rottler, 

 who travelled down our East coast in that month and year. The place is 

 now called Ukanda. (The specimens, however, are no longer in Rottler's 

 Herb., having been, as in some other cases, probably transferred to 

 Klein's, who was also a member of the Tranquebar Moravian Mission). 

 About Kirinda, Hambantota, and Tissamaharama frequent. Mr. Nevill 

 tells me he has seen it at Mandagala. Fl. December-February ; 

 greenish-white. 



Also at Courtallum in S. India. 



A very remarkable plant ; the climbing woody stems are as thick as 

 one's finger. 



[i?. subsessile, DC, is also given for Ceylon in Wight, Contrib. 1. c, 

 but Wight's specimens are from Bellary.] 



16. ANAPHAIilS, DC. 



Perennial herbs often semi-shrubby at base, 1. alt, sessile 

 numerous ; heads small, numerous ; corymbose, involucre 

 campanulate or top-shaped, bracts numerous, in several rows, 

 each with a terminal petaloid appendage, receptacle naked, fl. 

 numerous, all tubular, outer ones narrow, female, disk ones 

 bisexual (often sterile) ; anth. -bases sagittate, tailed ; .style- 

 branches of bisexual fl. obtuse or clavate ; achene very small, 



