30 ' LXXI. COMPOSIT,"E. 



luvol. -bracts linear, obtuse, scarious. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 287 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648. 

 Eare. Sind : Kirtbar mountains, Woodrow. 



21. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. 



Hoary or woolly herbs. Leaves alternate, usually quite entire. 

 Heads small, in terminal or axillary corymbs or fascicles, heterogamous, 

 disciform ; outer flowers § , fertile, 2-ao - seriate ; disk-flowers ^ , 

 fewer, fertile. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; bracts oo - seriate, 

 imbricate, all scarious, or with a white, yellow, or brown, more or less 

 scarious blade. Eeceptaele naked or pitted. Corollas of 5 flowers 

 filiform, minutely dentate or shortly 3-4-fid at the apex, those of the 

 ^ flowers regular, tubular, slender, the limb slightly enlarged, shortly 

 5-fid. Anther-bases sagittate, finely tailed. !Style-arms of ^ flowers 

 slender, truncate. Achenes oblong or obovate, subterete or slightly 

 compressed. Pappus-hairs 1-seriate, slender or thickened towards the 

 tip, separately caducous or more or less connate at the base into a 

 ring. — DiSTKiB. Cosmopolitan ; species about 100. 



Heads in corymbose leafless clusters 1. G. luieo-alhum. 



Heads in leafy spikes 2. G. indicum. 



Heads in rounded leafy axillary or terminal clusters 3. G. 'pulvinatum. 



1. Gnaphalium luteo- album, Linn. >Sp. PL (1753) p. 851. 

 Herbaceous, 6-18 in high, sometimes woody at the base, erect, ascending 

 or decumbent ; steiu simple or branched and as well as the branches 

 softly woolly. Leaves sessile, 1-2| by g-i in., spathulate- oblong or 

 linear-oblong, usually obtuse, sometimes muerouate, the upper i-ani- 

 plexicaul, smaller than the lower, all woolly on both surfaces, especially 

 the lower one (the upper surface sometimes glabrate), entire or very 

 rarely obscurely toothed. Elowers in dense leafless corymbose clusters 

 of yellow glistening heads. Invol.-bracts shining, straw-colored, the 

 outer ovate, subobtuse, the innermost linear, acute or subobtuse, all 

 with a subherbaceous nucleus near the base, thinly scarious and trans- 

 parent in the upper part. Pappus shorter than the involucre. Achenes 

 oblong, papillose. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 288 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 

 p. 114 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 517. — Flowers : Mar. 



KoNKAN : Matheran, Woodrow I Deccan : Dehu (Poona districts), Woodrow I ; 

 Wadgaou, Woodrow I Sind: Coo/cel — Distrib. Tbrougbout India; most hot and 

 warm temperate countries. 



2. Gnaphalium indicum, Linn. S^). PL (1753) p. 852. Her- 

 baceous, 4-12 in. high ; stem usually much-branched from near the base, 

 erector decumbent, more or less white-woolly. Leaves v-H by g-^ in., 

 narrowly linear-obovate or spathulate, obtuse, apiculate, the upper 

 leaves sessile, the lower usually shortly petioled, \\oolly, especially on 

 tlie margins and beneath, sometimes glabrate above, particularly when 

 grown in shady places. Heads small, g in, in diam., sessile, in small 

 dense terminal and subterminal spiciform clusters. Invol.-bracts usually 

 straw-colored, linear-oblong, subacute, the outer woolly, the inner 

 nearly glabrous, Achenes oblong, slightly papillose. PI. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 289 ; Grab. Cat. p. 97 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 130 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. 

 Ind. p. 114. — Flowers: Dec-Mar. 



