77 
peculiar, seeming to be partly at least at the base of the corolla- 
tube, but the material is imperfect ; and for the same reason i 
cannot be said whether the sexes are completely diclinous. 
The specific name refers to the very remarkable edie of 
the phyllaries, which is quite unlike that in any known species 
of Leontopodium, except the next, though having analogies in 
Gnaphalium, 
557. Leontopodium paradoxum, J. &. Drummond [Compositae- 
Inuloideae-Gnaphalinae]; species nulli Leontopodii speciei arcte 
affinis, habitu nonullas species Filaginis revocans, ob pappum 
omnino liberum in eadem sectione cum praecedente locanda, et, 
praeter ene ab omnibus Leontopodiis eodem charactere dis- 
tinguenda 
Herba uvana vel procumbens, i Ee de (dioica ?), rhizomate 
perenni ligneo-fibroso in caules 2 vel plures sarmentosos, infra 
denudatos, superne  saepius oe et lanatos, capitulorum 
glomeris seu foliorum verticillis terminatos subito diviso. Folia 
radicalia pauca vel omnino biggest sparsa vel rosulatim (internodis 
abbreviatis) congesta, margin ro vix undulato, ex angusta 
basi sessili linesri-spathulats, ee obtusiusculo, nervo ‘unico ex 
acutiora, superiore pagina villis candidis vel demum talesmesions 
laxe intertextis quasi incunabulum conformantibus copiose munita. 
Capitula [6 tantum in speciminibus hodiernis visa ?] exigua, sub- 
cylindrica, pauciflora, glabra, quatuor vel plura super incunabulum 
circa 12°5 mm. latum laxe disposita ; receptaculum minutum 
umbonatum late alveolatum. Phyllaria quinque vel plura, gla- 
berrima, basi angustata, supra late spathulata, ungue subpellucido 
atro-lineato arguto, limbo ample rotundato plus minus sub marginem 
lacerato sub-purpureo, demum stellulatim patentia ; [flosculi ete. in 
speciminibus hodiernis non visi]. Pappi setae liberae. 
Inpia. Eastern ae Ge. hill behind Tangu Bungalow, 
4360 m., Younghusband, T. Tangu 3660 m., Prain. Also 
collected (in Tibet) by 1 Waddell, and at Wallanchon (border of 
Nepal) by Str J. D. Hook 
* Sir Jose ph Hooker gave thisplan the f Anaphalis 
sessiliflora, with regard to the distinct pappus poem ; but if the 
present specimens baling to the same species the — should 
apparently be Leontopodium. He has observed (FI. Brit. Ind. os 
a 
Gnaphalium, and adds, “in fact the differences between these 
genera and Helichrysum, esprit and me SH are artificial, 
and hardly sufficient for practical purpos 
That characters mainly Fatal on a pappus are of less value 
than was formerly supposed in this group of Jnuloideae appears 
certain, but the structure of the inflorescence is a sufficient mark 
for the very natural genus Leontopodium, of et several or 
eae chiefly tec m KE. Asia, have been rec 
e Compositae Wie described for the Fl. Brit. Ind. The habit 
of ths peaeat ape is remote from nearly all the various types of 
