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Pulneys : by road-sides above Kodaikanal lake, common. 

 Fpon 1061, 3030, 3031, Not elsewhere. Wight Kew Dist. (at 

 Kew) No. 1630. Bourne 418, 918, 1506, 2695, 2696. 



Closely allied to A. brevifolia DC. ■ a Ceylon species, but differing" in 

 its narrower longer leaves not in general closely appressed to the stem and 

 more widely spreading on the scapes. Plants from Kotagiri, Courtallum, 

 and the Anamalais seem to he intermediate between these two. 



Anaphalis ncclgcrriana DC. ; F.B.I, ill 287, XXXIX 

 27; theNilgiri Everlasting. A white very small-leafed 

 shrub characteristic of dry and exposed situations on the 

 Nilgiris. 



At its best 3 or 4 feet high and as broad, with numerous 

 ascending, usually opposite branches, clothed below by 

 the dead leaves : bark of stem rough and corky. Leaves 

 bluey-white, H by 1/20 inch, coated with soft white 

 cotton closely appressed to the surface, with recurved 

 margins and one central vein : when young erect, later 

 spreading, and finally depressed close against the axis 

 and persistent there, very numerous and close set. Heads 

 in open corymbose panicles 2 to 3 inches, across termi- 

 nating erect branches 4 to 5 inches high, clothed to the 

 top with closely appressed leaves : disc % to 1/5 inch, 

 surrounded by a white rim of involucral bracts 1/16 inch. 

 t. 166. Wight Ic. 478. 



In dry and exposed places. Nilgiris : top of Vengadu 7,500 

 feet, abundant, but not on the slopes; hill above Pykara 7,500 

 feet, luxuriant near the cairn but not below ; in crevices on the 

 precipitous rocky face of Vellingiribetta, 8,250 feet ; a few plants 

 on the road-side near Pykara bridge but poor. Not Pulneys. 

 Fyson 2628. Bourne 2694, 4663. 



On the Pulneys this plant is represented by A. bournei. 



Hclichrysum buddlcoidcs DC. ; Wight's Herb. Prop. 

 1465!; F.B.I, iii 290, XLIIIi; broad-leafed Cudweed. 

 Distinguished from all others of this group by its broad 

 five to seven-nerved leaves, and masses of small yellow 

 flower-heads. 



