30 Compositce. [Anaphalis. 



An undcrshrub, stem stout, woody, erect, much-branched, 

 branches densely clothed with cottony wool; 1. very numerous, 

 crowded and deflexed below, scattered on the flowering 

 branches, rather small, 1-I4 in., oblong-spathulate, tapering 

 to broad base, obtuse at apex, very densely covered with 

 white cottony wool on both sides, which with age usually 

 peels off the upper surface leaving it glabrous, 3-nerved, very 

 thick ; heads large, y in., nearly sessile, in dense rounded 

 clusters, forming a close compact infl., involucre top-shaped, 

 bracts large, spreading, pale shining brown, slightly cottony, 

 appendage oblong-lanceolate, acute, pale sulphur-yellow. 



Upper montane zone ; very rare. Horton Plains (Thwaites) ; Pedu- 

 rutalagala. Fl. Peb.-April; yellow. 



Endemic. 



The Fl. B. Ind. quotes also C. P. 204S for this, which is Vandellia 

 Crustacea properly. This is our handsomest species ; the leaves are dis- 

 tinctly 3-nerved when the cotton is removed (not ' nerveless,' as given in 

 Fl. B. Ind.). Easily known by its large spreading heads. 



5. A. oblong'a, DC. Prod. vi. 274 (1837). 



GnapJialiiini oblonguin^ Thw. Enum. 422. G. indicutn, Thw. Enum. 

 166 (non L.). Clarke, Comp. Ind. 112. C. P. 1762. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 283. 



Stem 1-3 ft., erect, very slightly branched, densely covered 

 with thick cottony felt ; 1. numerous, crowded below, distant 

 and much smaller above, 1-2 in., oblong, broad and stem- 

 clasping at base, acute, margin flat or very loosely recurved, 

 densely covered on both sides with persistent cottony wool, 

 I- (rarely 3-) nerved; heads small, -J in., sessile, crowded in 

 globular clusters arranged in a usually close (rarely lax), 

 cottony, corymbose infl., involucre oblong-campanulate, bracts 

 small, not or slightly spreading, narrowly oblong, laxly 

 cottony, appendage acute, bright pink. 



Montane zone, 4000-7000 ft.; very common. Especially abundant on 

 the Uva patanas. Fl. April, Sept.-Nov. ; dark yellow. 



Also in mountains of S. India. 



Generally recognisable by the bright pink bracts, which, however, 

 become white in the herbarium ; a very variable and abundant species. 

 A plant from Horton Plains has the 1. 3- or 5-nerved, and is perhaps var. 

 elliptica, Ilk. f {A. clliptica, DC). 



6. A. zeylanica, Clarke in Fl. B. hid. iii. 286 (1881). 

 Giiaphalium IVii^hliatiiim, Thw. Enum. 166 (in part). Anaphalis 



Wi^htiafia, Clarke, Comp. Ind. in (non DC). C P. 1763. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 286. 



Stems rather slender, 1-2 ft., glabrous below, sparsely 

 cottony above, with few long branches from the base ; 1. 

 numerous and crowded below, more scattered above, f-i in., 

 oblong, broad and rounded at base, obtuse, apiculate, margin 



