i3^ COMPOSITiE. 



when young, afterwards bleaching at the tips. t. 163. 

 h. fertile pistillate flower ; c. staminate flower. [E.T.B.] 

 Wight Ic. 1 1 19. 



Pulneys : Kodaikanal downs, etc. Nilgiris : Avalanche, 

 Qic. {Wight). Fyson 1063. Bourne iiii, iiii.* 



Anaphalis wightiana DC. ; F.B.I iii 286, XXXIX 23 ; 

 Green Everlasting. Distinguished from A. aristata by 

 its larger (% inch) flower-heads and its thicker, shorter, 

 blunter and more numerous leaves. 



Stem to 12 inches woody below and clothed with dead 

 leaves; branching corymbosely above. Leaves white 

 underneath, green on the upper side, oblong obtuse, 

 one-nerved, with short recurved tip, revolute margin, 

 and broad stem-clasping base : upper leaves erect and 

 closely appressed to the stem and those near the 

 flower-heads cottony. Heads % inch rather long, with 

 several rows of bracts, cottony : disc % inch, margin 

 of acute bracts 1/16 inch: peduncles and lower part 

 of involucres densely cottony or tomentose. t. 164. 

 Wight Ic. t. II17. 



In damp and cool places, on banks of streams, etc. Nilgiris : 

 on the downs common especially towards Pykara. Pulneys : 

 near Kodaikanal. Fyson 662>, 1086. Bourne 419, 2700, 2701. 



Anaphalis bournci Fyson, Sp. Nov. ; F.B.I, included 

 in A. brevifolia DC, iii 286 ; XXXIX 26^; Bourne's 

 Everlasting. 



Stem shrubby below and much branched, the whole 

 plant as a rounded lump with the habit of A. beddomei 

 and A. travancorica : covered with a closely appressed 

 felt of white hairs. Leaves /^ to /^ by 1/12 inch, acute ; 

 upper erect and appressed to the stem, lower spreading : 

 margin revolute ; midrib distinct. Flowering branches 

 6 to 10 inches, somewhat less leafy upwards. Heads % 

 inch ; border of white scales 1/12 inch. t. 165. 



