234 COMPOSITiE. 



Stem 2 to 4 feet, white above, % inch thick. Leaves 

 elliptic lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, spreading, 2 to 

 4 by J^ to I inch, green and glabrous above, white, as are 

 all the other green parts, with thick adpressed tomen- 

 tum, underneath ; nerves five to seven raised. Corymbs 

 terminal, 4 to 8 inches across ; clusters of flower-heads 

 globose /^ to I inch. Heads yellow, Ye inch, outer bracts 

 woolly inner glistening. Anthers with long slender tails. 

 Achenes scabrid, with pappus of scabrid hairs, t. 167. 

 c. tubular floret; d. filiform floret [E.T.B.]. Wight Sp. 

 Nilg. t. Ill ; Ic. t. I113. 



Nilgiris : on Snowdon ; flowers in January. Coonoor. 

 Pulneys : at lower levels — Shembaganur. Fyson 660, 1026, 

 2405. 



Gen. Dist. Western Ghats, Mysore, Bababooduns, Anamalais and 

 Ceylon. 



GNAPHALIUM. f.b.i. 78 xlii. 



Gnaphalium lutco-album Linn. ; F.B.I. iii 288, XLII i. 

 A small herb with very much the habit and general 

 appearance of narrow leafed specimens of Anaphalis 

 oblonga DC, but with dense leafless clusters of small 

 golden glistening flower-heads, of which all the florets 

 are fertile, may be found on the Ootacamund downs but 

 is not, I believe, common. Bourne 5099- 



Gen. Dist. Distributed all over India. 



CARPESIUM. F.B.I. 78 XLViii. 



Herbs with alternate leaves and fairly large yellow 

 drooping unrayed flower-heads, distinguished among 

 our COMPOSITE by the large, leaf-like, outer bracts, 

 and the long sticky achenes. Florets all tubular but 

 the outer without stamens. Anther cells with slender 

 tails, stylar arm linear obtuse connivent. No pappus. 



Species under 10 in Europe, temperate and sub-tropical Asia. 



