280 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Anaphalis. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA and TIBET, alt. 12-16,000 ft. The following forms have very 

 unstable characters. 



VAE. 1 . nubigena proper : stems 3-8 in. slender, leaves narrow and scattered usually 

 - in., heads solitary rarely 2-3 f-1 in. diam. A. nubigena, monocephala and 

 mucronata, DC. 1. c. A. nubigena and mucronata, Clarke Cornp. 2nd. 105, 106. 

 Gnaphalium nubigenum, Wall. Cat. 2935. 



VAR. 2. intermedia; slender, 3-8 in., leaves longer ^-f in. as in var. 1., heads 

 1-5 corymbose smaller often crowded. A. nubigena j8. polycephala, Clarke Cmnp. 

 Ind. 106. Antennaria triplinervis 7. intermedia, DC. I.e. 270. Gnaphalium inter- 

 medium, Wall. Cat. 2936, in part. This passes insensibly into A. cuneifolia. There 

 is a great mixture of this and Var. 1 in "Wallich's Herbarium, and from the description 

 I suspect that De Candolle had specimens of the following under his eye when 

 describing A. triplinervis, var. intermedia. 



2. A. cuneifolia. Hook, f.; softly woolly or cottony, stems several 

 ascending slender 6-12 in. often stoloniferous, leaves 1-2 in. linear-oblong or 

 obovate-oblong or the lower spathulate ^-amplexicaul acute and aristate, heads 

 - in. diam. corymbose, invol. bracts ^ in. lanceolate acute or obtuse white. 

 Gnaphalium cuneifolium, Wall. Cat. 2934, except left-hand specimen. Anten- 

 naria triplinervis var. cuneifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 270. Helichrysum stoloniferum 

 and ? elegans, Don Prodr. 176. Elichrysum nepalense, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 

 485. 



TEMPERATE and ALPINE HIMALAYA ; from 8-12,000 ft. in Kashmir, and from 

 9-13,000 ft. in Sikkim, abundant. 



It is impossible to distinguish small states of this from large ones of nubigena, 

 var. intermedia, though on the whole this retains its characters throughout the length 

 of the Himalaya. 



3. A. Royleana, DC. Prodr. 272 ; stems many from the root 4-6 in. 

 woody below leafy, leaves f-l in. sessile linear or linear-oblong obtuse or acute 

 woolly beneath or on both surfaces 1-nerved flat or margins recurved, heads |- 

 in. diam. in rounded corymbs, invol. bracts 5- in. ovate obtuse or acute 

 white. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 9-15,000 ft. ; Kunawar, Ttoyle, &c. 



VAR. 1. Eoyleana proper ; leaves puberulous or scaberulous above. A. Boyleana 

 and polylepis, DC. 1. c. A. polylepis, Clarke Comp. Ind. 104. Pangi and Werang 

 Pass, alt. 10-13,000 ft. Royle's specimens do not show the woody base of the stem, 

 which is the only described difference between this and A. polylepis, DC., except the 

 size of the heads, which vary much, being sometimes as small as in A. contorta. The 

 invol. bracts vary in length and acuteness, and the outer have a broad thickened 

 coloured claw as in A. xylorhiza. A. Eoyleana, of Clarke (Comp. Ind. 104) is A. 

 Griffithii. 



VAR. 2, concolor; leaves uniformly clothed on both surfaces with soft white or 

 grey tomentum rarely apiculate. A. chionantha, Herb. Ind. Or. H. F. $ T. Gnapha- 

 lium canum, Wall. Cat. 2942, in part. Alpine Himalaya, alt. 9-13,000 ft. Kunawar, 

 Jacquemont, &c. Mana, Edgeworth. Sikkim, alt. 13-15,000 ft., J. D. H. 



VAR. 3. cana ; stems very numerous and slender, leaves 1-1| in. more or less 

 woolly or cottony on both surfaces very narrow margins often revolute. Antennaria 

 chionantha, var. cana, DC. 1. c. Gnaphalium canum, Wall. Cat. 2942, in part. 

 Specimens with broader leaves not revolute at the margin are with difficulty distin- 

 guished from forms of A. cuneifolia. 



4. A. G-riffithii, Hook. f. ; stems 12-18 in. erect or ascending slender 

 leafy, leaves beneath densely clothed with white or sub-cinnamomeous wool, 

 leaves 1-1 1 in. linear acute or apiculate ^-amplexicaul above white or grey 

 woolly or cobwebby l-nerved. margins flat or revolute, heads many -in. diam. 

 in usually open corymbs, invol. bracts ^ in. ovate or elliptic-ovate subacute 

 white. A. Royleana, ? Herb. Ind. Or. Hf.fyT.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 104. 



