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2 to 6 inches long, forming a large terminal leafy panicle- 

 Peduncles often with one or two small leaves, then 

 winged, erect but slightly decurved so that the flowers 

 face downwards. Heads conical, Yz^y % inch, with flat 

 base ; lower bracts recurved, stiff. Wight let. IIOI. 



On the open downs of both plateaus, flowering in the winter 

 months. Fyson 2306, 2670, 2672. Bourne 53. 



Gen. Dist. Mountains of India proper, tropical Africa, Java, China 

 and Philippines. 



The stems die down or are burnt down every year, and the young shoots 

 which come up after the first rains have large soft leaves smelling strongly 

 of Black-currant. 



Laggera ptcrodonta Benth. ; RB.L iii 271, XXVII 3. 

 Stem and branches slender, glabrous : wings very irregu- 

 lar, interrupted and deeply toothed. Leaves glabrous, 

 thin, ovate lanceolate or oblanceolate, sessile, toothed or 

 pinnatifid at the base ; on the main stem 5 by 1 to 2 by ^ 

 inch ; on the branches smaller. Flower-heads peduncled 

 in the upper axils, purple. Wight Ic t. 1 100. 



On both plateaus. Bourne 1560. 



Gen. Dist. Mountains of South India, tropical Himalayas, Assam and 

 Burma, tropical Africa. 



Smell of young leaves faint, and rather like that of a Strawberry. 



ANAPHALIS AND HELICHRYSUM. 



F.B.I. 78 XXXIX & XLIII. 

 Cudweed, Everlasting, etc. 

 Characterised chiefly by the scarious glistening 

 bracts which stand up round the flower-head (Cudweed) 

 or spread out as a white border round it (Everlasting) : 

 also by the arrangement of the heads in close masses, 

 and by a cottony covering on all green parts. Florets 

 all tubular, slender : outer ones female only (without 

 stamens but) fertile : inner with stamen and style but 

 infertile. Achenes with pappus of simple hairs. 

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