282 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 4-9000 ft. to Sikkim and Bhotan, 

 alt. 5-10,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. CEYLON; central province, alt. 

 5-8000 ft., Thwaites. DISTRIB. Upper Birma, N. China and Japan. 



Very similar to the American. A. maraaritacea, but the leaves are 3-nerved and 

 usually cinnamomeous beneath ; they vary from - in broad, and when very narrow 

 are only 1 -nerved, margins generally flat. Corymbs usually much branched. 



9. A. Hookeri, Clarke mss. ; stem 1-2 ft. simple or corymbosely branched 

 glandular-pubescent leafy, leaves 2-4 in. spreading narrowly lanceolate tapering- 

 from the auricled ^-ainplexicaul base to the acuminate point 3-nerved sparsely 

 cobwebby or cottony and subglandular both surfaces greenish-brown when dry 

 margins flat, heads very small in. diam. globose in broad much-branched 

 corymbs, invol. bracts in. long broadly ovate obtuse white opaque. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen andLachoong valleys, alt. 9-11,000 ft., J. D. H. 

 A very distinct looking species, but allied to A. subumbellata in its glandular 

 pubescence and habit. 



10. A. adnata, DC. Prodr. vi. 274; stem simple stout leafy 2-4 ft. 

 densely clothed with white silky or cottony wool, leaves 2-5 in. suberect 

 obovate oblong sub-spathulate or lanceolate acute or obtuse leathery 1-3-nerved 

 narrowed to the ^-amplexicaul base, heads numerous -3- in. diam. subglobose 

 in dense rounded clusters on the stout branches of a large corymb or in a simple 

 terminal cluster, invol. bracts in. long rounded-ovate obtuse white opaque. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 108. Gnaphalium adnatum, Wall. Cat. 2948. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-8000 ft., from Simla eastwards to Bhotan. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. MARTABAN, alt. 5-7000 ft. 



In its fullest development much the largest, stoutest, and largest-leaved Indian 

 species, with stem as thick as the middle-finger, and obovate- spathulate 3-nerved 

 leaves attaining 1 in. diam. ; it, however, grows more slender with leaves \ in. diam. 

 and 1 -nerved. The white woolly clothing is very uniform ; the root appears annual. 



11. A. fruticosa, Hook. f. ; shrubby, branches stout terete woody 

 covered below with persistent leaf-bases produced beyond the leaves into a 

 long slender cottony flowering branch, leaves 1-2 in. crowded spreading oblan- 

 ceolate obtuse narrowed from beyond the middle 3-nerved coriaceous margins 

 flat glabrous above beneath clothed with appressed cinnamomeous wool, heads 

 many in. diam. campanulate in a large branched open corymb, longer invol. 

 bracts in. narrowly obovate-oblong obtuse recurved white shining. Gnapha.- 

 lium Wightianum, Thwaites Enum. 166 (C.P. 132). 



CEYLON ; Adam's Peak, Thwaites. 



Apparently a very distinct species, but I have seen only one specimen ; it differs 

 wholly from Wightiana in habit, form and colour of foliage, and in the campanulate 

 heads. The woody terete branch is nearly as thick as a goose-quill, the leaves are 

 widest beyond the middle and coloured underneath like A. cinnamomea, which differs 

 in the globose heads with broader shorter bracts. It is most like a very large form 

 of A. marcescens, but the large heads and bracts are quite different. 



12. A. Beddomei, Hook. f. ; clothed with appressed grey cottony wool, 

 stem stout 1-2 ft. leafy simple, leaves 2-3 in. elliptic-lanceolate from a sessile 

 ^-amplexicaul narrowed base strongly 5- (upper 3-) nerved, heads in. diam. 

 sessile subglobose in dense rounded corymbose clusters, invol. bracts in. elliptic- 

 oblong obtuse white glistening. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, Beddome. 



A beautiful species, just received from Colonel Beddome without locality, easily 

 recognised by the elliptic lanceolate 5-ribbed leaves. There are about as many ? as 

 hermaphrodite flowers, and it may be referable to Gnaphalium. 



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