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clothed above and below with close wool, which however 

 does not hide the five, or at the base seven, veins promi- 

 nently raised in the lower side, but impressed in the 

 upper and curving forwards to meet at the tip. Flower- 

 heads in small corymbs, on peduncles, the outer of which 

 are much the longer, so that the whole inflorescence is 

 depressed in the centre; bracts oblong, all close set 

 against the axis, the lowest I inch ; central corymbs 

 opening and fruiting first. Heads small, the involucres 

 campanulate, ^ by % inch : bracts glistening white, 

 oblong or rounded not spreading. Disc i/io inch or more 

 across, florets all tubular. Corolla i/io inch above the 

 minute ovary. Achenes very small, pappus of white 

 hairs. After the fall of the fruits the receptacles appear 

 as small discs 1/16 inch diameter surrounded by a wing 

 J^ inch wide, the inner half brown, the outer glistening 

 white. 



Easily distinguished from A. travancorica, which it 

 much resembles in growth, by the smaller more spread- 

 ing leaves, set at longer internodes, and the small flower- 

 heads in loose corymbs, t. 160. 



On the Pulney downs, common. Fyson 524, 2101, 2074. 

 Bourne 2009, 2697, 2698. 



Named by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker after Col. Beddome luho sent the 

 plant to Kew about 1 880. 



Anaphalis travancorica Smith] XXXIX I2. * Grows 

 in dense whitish tufts, i to 2 feet in height and up to 

 six feet across, of numerous stems that end in closely 

 packed very cottony oblanceolate leaves and are 

 clothed below by the dead ones ; the flower-heads ^3 

 inch across in bunches of 2 inches diameter, raised a few 

 inches only above the general level. 



Main stem woody, an inch thick, decumbent on the 

 ground; upright stems as thick as a lead pencil, clothed 

 for the most part with numerous brownish-grey dead 



