COMPOSITE. 231 



Heads in compact masses, arranged in broad depressed 

 terminal corymbs : involucral scales shining white or 

 pink. Very variable as regards size of leaf. t. 162, 



Common everywhere on the plateaus, especially on rather 

 poor soil and then often only 3 to 4 inches high. Fyson 274, 

 1062, 1069, * 2906, 2987. Bourne 710, 578, ioo2,"^ io39»'^' 

 2699, 1561, 2699, 5247- 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats and Ceylon. 



Anaphalis Icptophylla DC. ; F.B.L iii 285, XXXIX 

 21 ; White Everlasting. Distinguished from A. oblonga 

 by its much narrower leaves and larger flower-heads. 



Stem slender, usually unbranched, silvery white with 

 closely appressed hairs. Leaves linear or linear oblan- 

 ceolate, ^ to I inch, mucronate : midrib strong : margin 

 revolute. Heads when fully open Ys inch, pure white 

 with yellow centre : lower half of bracts scarious with 

 green nerves, glistening : upper half spreading outward 

 as a fringe round the disc: disc M inch yellow : recep- 

 tacle glabrous. Achenes ovoid. Pappus hairs feathery 

 towards the base. 



Pulneys : in damp places and on poor ground, on the 

 downs. Nilgiris. Fpon 474, 1069. Bourne 5205, 5228. 



Anaphalis aristata DC. ; Herb. Wight's Prop. 1470 ! ; 

 F.B.L iii 285, XXXIX 22 ; Green Cudweed. A green 

 plant with sticky leaves and small flower-heads. 



Stem woody at the base with numerous, erect, flower- 

 ing branches, glandular-pubescent but not cottony. 

 Leaves clasping the stem with acute auricles, oblong, 

 acute or tapering from the clasping base to the apex, 

 l^ to 2 inches by % to J4 inch ; margin recurved ; lower 

 side white with single midrib ; apex mucronate and 

 turned downwards. Heads very numerous y% inch, 

 bunched in more or less compact lumpy corymbs; bracts 

 glistening rounded, with minute teeth rose coloured 



