286 
Plants of the Punjao. 
Heres, EReEcT, WITH ALTERNATE EXSTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES. 
Anaphalis contorta, 
Composit ™®. 
F. B. I. iii. 284. 
Himalaya, 
7-10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Phagnalon niveum, 
CoMPposIT”#. 
F. B. I. i. 288. 
Himalaya, 
6-8,000 ft. 
Kashmir, 
Gnaphalium 
luteo-album, 
Jersey cudweed, 
Bal raksha. 
CoMPosIT™#®. 
BOB, %. 111.7288. 
The Plains to 
10,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir. 
Baluchistan (Lace). 
Gnaphalium 
hypoleucum, 
ComposiT™®. 
Hea. he 11.200. 
Himalaya, 
8-7,000 ft. 
Simla (Collett). 
Kashmir, 
LeaF Marcins ENTIRE. 
PETALS UNITED. 
FLOWERS MINUTE IN HEADS, ALL TUBULAR. 
small to medium size, branches often prostrate, 
leaves 4-1 by 4 in., linear, heads % in. diam. in dense ter- 
minal flat-topped clusters, outer bracts of the heads often 
purple ; for other characters see the Jast species, 
small, annual, snow-white with dense cottony 
wool, branches short and leafy or slender and less leafy ; 
leaves 1-14 in., ovate with a broad tip to oblong with 
rounded ends or linear-oblong, sometimes toothed ; flowers 
minute, yellow and tubular in axillary solitary or clus- 
tered heads, 4-} in. diam., on slender stalks, 1-3 in., bracts 
of the heads awl-shaped, straight, ending in a needle-like 
point, purplish, outer smaller, grey cottony, pappus hairs 
slender, rigid, corollas, inner 5-fid, outer 2-8-todthed, 
anther-bases forked or entire ; achenes small, not ribbed. 
small, annual, very variable, woolly, much branch- 
ed; leaves 1-2 by 41in., oblong with blunt tips, base often 
half stem-clasping, both surfaces woolly, upper leaves 
lanceolate, short-pointed ; flowers minute, whitish, yel- 
lowish or brownish in heads, } in. diam., in leafless dense 
glistening flat-topped clusters, bracts of the heads oblong, 
blunt, transparent, yellowish, glistening, pappus hairs 
scanty, short, outer corollas 8-4-toothed, inner larger, 
5-toothed, anther-bases forked, cells with slender ‘tails ; 
achenes oblong, slender, rough with tubercles or minute 
curved bristles. 
very like the last species, but taller and _ stouter 
leaves longer, long-pointed, only woolly beneath and often 
with widely projecting bases, 
