Anaphalis.] CompOsitcP . 3 1 



strongly recurved, loosely cottony on both sides, or nearly or 

 quite glabrous, rather thick and stiff, i -nerved; heads about 

 \ in. long, usually considerably broader, nearly sessile, in few 

 rounded clusters rather closely placed and forming a corymbose 

 infl., involucre cup-shaped, cottony at base, bracts spreading, 

 appendage oval, subacute, often erose or toothed, pure white; 

 fl. very numerous. 



Upper montane zone on patanas; common. Fl. June-October; bright 

 yellow. 



Endemic. 



This is very near Anaphalis Wis^Jitiana^ DC. (Wight, Ic. t. 11 17), of 

 the Nilgiris. It is a variable plant in foliage ; the form with the leaves 

 quite glabrous is common about Hakgala, on Horton Plains, &c., and 

 attains a larger size than that with cottony ones. There is also a form 

 with shorter erect involucre-bracts — perhaps a different species. The 

 Fl. B. Ind. quotes C. P. 568 for this, as well as for A. cinnauiontea, to 

 which it rightly belongs. 



7. A. znarcescens, Clarke, Comp. Ind. no (1876). 

 Gnaphaliwn marcesce^is, Wight, Thw. Enum. 166. C. P. 1765, 3522. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 286. Wight, Ic. t. 11 15 {Gnaphaliuni). 



Semi-shrubby, stems slender, much branched, elongated, 

 clothed when young with a cottony skin ; 1. numerous, crowded 

 below, ij-i| in., linear or narrowly lanceolate-linear, much 

 tapering below, acute, apiculate, or with a recurved mucro, 

 margin strongly recurved, glabrous and dark green above, 

 densely white-cottony beneath, i-nerved; heads under \ in. 

 long and less wide, nearly sessile, numerous, crowded in 

 globose clusters, forming a close roimded infl., involucre 

 oblong or top-shaped, very cottony at base, bracts narrow, 

 not spreading, appendage narrowly oblong-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, acute or obtuse, snow-white. 



Var. /3, sulphurea, Trim. 



L. broader, spathulate, cottony on both sides till old, when 

 the upper surface becomes glabrous, pale sulphur-yellow be- 

 neath; heads more congested. 



Upper montane zone in rocky places to highest elevations ; rather 

 common. Var. /3, Horton Plains. Fl. Oct.-Feb., April; dull yellow. 



Also in Nilgiri Mountains, S. India. 



This often much resembles A. cinnamomea. C. P. 3522 connects the 

 type with var. \i. 



8. A. brevifolia, DC. Prod. vi. 273 (1837). 

 Gnaphaliutn brevifolium, Thw. Enum. 166. C. P. 1761. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 286. 



Very much branched below, 6-18 in. high, branches slender, 

 divaricate, ascending, clothed with a thin cottony pellicle, 



