Anaphalis.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 283 



** Leaves 1- (very rarely 3-) nerved, -4 in. ; margins usually flat, or slightly 

 recurved when dry, but strongly recurved in many forms, more rarely in araneosa. 

 (See also A. contorta and zeylanica in ***.) 



13. A. araneosa, DC. Prodr. vi. 109; stem 1-3 ft. erect usually muck 

 branched more or less winged by the decurrent leaf-bases pubescent and glan- 

 dular or cottony or woolly leafy, leaves suberect or spreading 1-4 in. tapering 

 from a narrow or broad ^-amplexicaul often auricled and sometimes decurrent 

 base to an acuminate point, margins generally recurved at the base only pu- 

 berulous or cottony beneath or on both surfaces 1-nerved, heads - in. diam. 

 subglobose in subglobose clusters or in large open much branched corymbs, 

 invol. bracts ^^ in. elliptic obtuse white opaque. Clarke Comp. Ind. 109. 

 Gnaphalium Busua, Ham. in Don Prodr. 173. G. semidecurrens, Wall. Cat. 

 2947 A. G. ? decurrens, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 2939. ?G. villosissima, Don 

 Prodr. 175. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Marri and Simla, alt. 5-8000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 

 6-10,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-7000 ft. 



I find it impossible to limit the varieties of this in respect of glabrousness or 

 woolliness. Koyle's specimens have a very little cottony wool, but are otherwise 

 puberulous or glandular only, and the same form occurs in the Khasia ; Wallich's 

 semidecurrens has leaves white and cottony beneath, and others are cottony and white 

 all over. A Khasian form connects it with A. contorta. The glandular forms are 

 sweet-scented like A. subumbellata, which has never so broadly branched a corymb. 



14. A. oblong- a, DC. Prodr. vi. 174; softly cottony and white, sterna 

 usually many ascending from the root 4-18 in. slender or stout leafy, leaves f-l 

 in. erect and spreading oblong or obovate or linear-oblong acute from a broad 

 |-amplexicaul base rarely narrowly linear cottony on both surfaces, margins flat r 

 nerves 1 rarely 3 very obscure, heads turbinate in. diam. sessile densely 

 crowded in rounded corymbose clusters, invol. bracts in. linear-oblong white 

 or pink glistening. Clarke Comp. Ind. 112. Gnaphalium indicum, Thwaites 

 Enum. 166. G. subdecurrens, DC. in Wight Contrib. 21. G. semidecurrens, 

 Wall. Cat. 2947 B. 



WESTERN GHATS, from the BABABOODEN to the PULNEY MTS., alt. 6-8000 ft., 

 Heyne, &c. CEYLON ; central Province, ascending to 7000 ft. 



The uniform white cottony clothing and usually short broad leaves with flat mar- 

 gins and indistinct midrib beneath, small heads, and acuminate bracts, distinguish 

 this at once from the others. It is exceedingly variable in habit. Gnaphalium sub- 

 decurrens, DC., is no doubt, as "Wight states, a state of A. oblonga with perfect disk 

 flowers, the styles of which are 2-fid (as indeed they are in most of the Indian species) ; 

 it unites Gnaphalium with Anaphalis. I find the same character in Ceylon specimens, 

 whence Thwaites technically referred the plant to Gnaphalium, though it is not 

 Linnseus's G. indicum. The globose clusters of heads are sometimes disposed in 

 forked cymes. 



VAR. elliptica ; stem stouter more leafy upwards, leaves broader sometimes 1 in. 

 diam. obscurely 3-5-nerved. A. ? elliptica, DC. Prodr. vi. 274 ; Wight Ic. 1. 1 1 18 (bad) ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 112. Neilgherry Mts., Wight, &c. I do not see how this is dis- 

 tinguished, except by habit, from A. oblonga. Clarke describes the invol. bracts as 

 yellow, but they are as often white or pink. Styles of the $ fl. deeply cleft. 



VAR. Lawii ; stout, erect, very cottony and leafy, leaves 1-3 in. linear obtuse or 

 acute, invol. bracts white or pale straw coloured. Bababooden hills, Law ; Mercara, 

 Hohenacker. 



15. A. Stoliczkai, Clarke Comp. Ind. 108; grey with thin cottony 

 pubescence, stem much corymbosely branched leafy, leaves 1-1^ in. linear-oblong 

 or ovate from a broad base acute 1-nerved, margins flat, heads in. diam.,. 

 peduncles subcarnpanulate forming small corymbs terminating the branches,. 



