Artemisia.] composite. 187 



terminal leafy panicle. In each head are about 8 hermaphrodite but sterile 

 florets, and about as many females, their corolla dilated at the base. 



At Saywan and some other plaees, but not common in the island, Champion. On the 

 adjacent continent and in Japan. It is nearly allied to, but I believe distinct from, the more 

 glabrous forms of A. parviflora, Roxb. {A. glabrata, Wall.), a common N. Indian species. 



2. A. vulgaris, Linn.; DC. Prod. vi. 112. An erect herb, \\ to near 3 ft. 

 high. Stem-leaves 2 or 3 in. long, deeply pinnatifid with 3, 5, or 7 linear- 

 lanceolate lobes, green on the upper side, white with a close tomentum under- 

 neath ; the upper* leaves often entire. Flower-heads ovoid, about 2 lines 

 long, in short spikes, forming a long terminal leafy panicle. In each head 

 are about 10 or 12 hermaphrodite and fertile florets and about as many fe- 

 males ; their corollas slender from the base. — A. indica, Willd. ; DC. 1. c. ' 

 114 ; Wight, Ic. t. 1112. A. leptostachys, DC. 1. c. 113. 



Hongkong, Hance. The species ranges over nearly the whole area of the genus, and is in 

 many places very common, in others, as probably in Hongkong/only as an introduced plant, 

 along roadsides and near habitations. 



3. A. annua, Linn.; DC. Prod. vi. 119. An erect, branching, glabrous 

 annual, 1 to 2 ft. high. Leaves small, bipinnately divided into short, narrow, 

 toothed or pinnatifid segments. Flower-heads globular, about a line in dia- 

 meter, very numerous, forming a pyramidal leafy panicle occupying nearly the 

 whole plant. In each head are about 20 hermaphrodite and fertile florets, 

 and nearly as many slender females. 



Hongkong, Hance. "Widely spread over temperate Asia, from Asia Minor to eastern Si- 

 beria, China, and Chusan. Cultivated by the Chinese to mix with their tea. 



Tribe VIII. GNAPHALIEM 



Leaves alternate. Mower-heads homogamous or heterogamous ; the florets 

 all tubular. Anthers with simple fine points or tails at the base. Style- 

 branches in the disk-florets truncate. Pappus of capillary bristles or very 

 seldom wanting. — Most of the species cottony or woolly, at least on the under 

 side of the leaves. 



31. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. 



Flower-heads heterogamous. Florets of the circumference numerous, fe- 

 male, filiform. Disk-florets few, hermaphrodite, 5 -toothed. Involucre im- 

 bricate; the bracts scarious and coloured. Eeceptacle flat, without scales. 

 Achenes oblong, nearly cylindrical, often papillose. Pappus of a single series 

 of capillary bristles. — Herbs, more or less white-cottony or woolly. Leaves 

 alternate, mostly soft, narrow and entire. Flower-heads usually clustered, 

 either in the upper axils or in terminal spikes or corymbs. 



A large genus, distributed over nearly the whole globe. 



Flower-heads in terminal corymbs. 



Leaves linear, glabrous above 1. G. hypoleucum. 



Leaves linear-spathulate, white on both sides 2. G. multiceps. 



Flower-heads in axillary clusters or a terminal spike. 



Flower-heads about 2 lines long 3. G.purpureum. 



Flower-heads about 1 line long 4. G. indicum. 



1. G. hypoleucum, DC. Prod. vi. 422; Wight, Pc. t. 1114. An erect 



