315 
It will thus be seen that I have divided up into 3 species 
the plants collected together i in the Flora of British India under 
ft. dumetorum, viz.: No. 1 R. dumetorum, Lamk. a stiff shrub 
or small thorny tree of fe dry, scrub forest of the Eastern side 
_ of the Peninsula; No. 2 R. longispina, DC. a small tree of the 
N. Indian Forests extending southwards to the Godavari, and 
No. 3 R. Brandisii, Gamble, a small tomentose tree of the 
Western side of the Peninsula only, 
Lasianthus. Like most of those who have had to deal with 
this genus I have found it difficult, but Dr. Wight’s paper in 
the Calcutta Journal of Natural History vi (1846) p. 494 has 
een a great help. I have had, however, to leave several 
specimens in different Herbaria unidentified. The three species 
L. sirigillosus, Hook. f., L. acuminatus, Wt., and L. parvifolius, 
Wight have been the most difficult, and with them it has been 
necessary to ascertain exactly what is the L. coffeoides described 
P. Fyson in the Kew Bulletin for 1914, as no specimens were 
available that had been written up by the author. I thin k, 
however, that I have correctly judged which of the two specimens 
on the same sheet that Wight included in his Z. acuminatus is 
Fyson’s plant, and the excellent Bourne and Sauliére specimens 
will now well represent the species. I wish, however, here to 
put on record the suspicion that L. coffeoides may prove to be 
only a form of L. strigillosus, to which I think it is nearer than 
it is to L. acuminatus. 
CompositaE. Anaphalis. The distinctions between the genera 
Anaphalis, Gnaphalium and Helichrysum are not very easy to make 
out, at any rate in dry specimens. This was commented on by 
Sir J. D. Hooker in the Fl. Br. Ind. iii. 279, and the subject was 
more fully discussed by Mons. G. Beauverd of the Herbier 
Boissier in the ‘“ Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Genéve ”’ 
. Série, Vol. v. p. 146 (1913) who therein announced an 
early monograph of the genus Anaphalis. Pending the scorned 
as nearly as possible to the arrangement of the Flora of British 
ndia. There is, however, one species which requires some 
ee namely, No. 14 A. oblonga, D 
In “ Contributions to the Botany of India ” by Dr. Wight 
(1834) eral A. P. de Candolle described two species of Gnaph- 
alium, G. subdecurrens and G. ellipticum, both of which have 
been included under Anaphalis oblonga in the Flora of British 
India. In 1837, in Vol. vi of the “‘ Prodromus,’’ Mons. de Candolle 
published his species A. oblonga based on a specimen collected 
in the Nilgiri Hills by Leschenault, and this has been taken 
as the specific name under which Mons. de Candolle’s two 
Gnaphaliums should be placed. But it seems to me that the 
earliest specific name is not A. oblonga but should be A. sub- 
decurrens, and this is the name I have adopted. Gnaphalium 
subdecurrens, DC. was based on Wight’s No. 1469 (Herb. propr.) 
of which there are specimens at Kew in two forms, one as alow 
