3 2 Covipositce. {Ilelichrysutn. 



young parts extremely cottony; 1. very numerous, small, 

 \-h in., closely placed, imbricate, spreading or deflexed and 

 concealing the stem, oblong-lanceolate, acute, margin recurved, 

 densely cottony on both sides, i -nerved ; heads \ in. long, 

 over I in. broad, slightly cottony at base, sessile or shortly 

 stalked, in small clusters, closely placed and forming a rather 

 dense rounded or flat-topped infl., bracts spreading, appendage 

 large lanceolate, subacute, white. 



Upper montane zone in patanas; very common. Fl. Sept.-Nov. ; 

 yellow. 



Also in Anamalai Hills, S. India. 



This is very near A. jnelghefriana, DC. (Wight, Ic. t. 478). It is 

 easily distinguished from all our other species by its slender, much- 

 branched habit, and small, very numerous imbricated leaves ; it is not 

 at all variable. 



Gnaphaliuni multicaule^ Willd. {G. ifidiciaii^ Auct. plur. non L.), has 

 recently become a common weed on estates in the hill districts, having 

 apparently been introduced about 1880. Thwaites says in 1864 (Enum. 

 422) that he has never seen it here. The planters call it ' Wild migno- 

 nette.' \G. indictim of Linnaeus is quite a different plant. It is Fl. Zeyl. 

 n. 307, but Hermann's specimens were erroneously referred to Ceylon. 

 They were collected at the Cape, and are Amphidoxa gnaphalodes^ DC. 

 (see Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 148).] 



17. HEXiZCHRVSUM, GaerUi. 



Perennial, semi-shrubby, 1. alt., sessile, numerous ; heads 

 small, very numerous, in a large cor},^mbose infl., involucre 

 campanulate, bracts in several rows, loose, scarious, the inner 

 with broad obtuse appendages, receptacle small, flat, pitted 

 and minutely bristly, fl. few, small, all tubular, outer row 

 female, disk ones larger, bisexual ; anth.-bases sagittate, tailed ; 

 style-arms of bisexual fl. truncate; achene small, pappus long. 

 — Sp. 260 (mostly S. African and Australian); 2 in Fl.B.Ind. 



This with the species oi Anapluilis form the 'Everlastings' of our 

 Hills. 



K. buddleoides, DC. in Wight., Contrib. 20 (1834). 

 //. H<wkcria/iui/i, \V. and A. in DC. Prod. \\. 201 ; Clarke, Comp. 

 Ind. 116. Cnapha/iion Hookerianujti, Thw. Enum. 166. C. P. 681. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 290. W'ight, Ic. t. 11 13. 



Semi-shrubby, stems 2-5 ft. long, stout, cylindrical, densely 

 covered with a thick felt of white (rarely cinnamomeous) 

 cottony wool, slightly branched ; 1. very numerous, crowded, 

 the lower ones deflexed and concealing the stem, I4-2J in., 

 linear-oblong, broad and stem-clasping at base, tapering to 



