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



invol. bracts few in. linear-oblong obtuse somewhat recurved lower half hard 

 green upper white opaque. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 5-10,000 ft., StoliczJca, Jaeschke. 



The only specimen I have seen is the top, 10 in. long, of a stem, which is flexuous 

 and gives off many slender branches terminated by the corymb. Clarke states that 

 its discoverer found it in many places in Tibet. Its nearest ally is A. virgata, which 

 differs in the narrow leaves with revolute margins and the less hardened invol. bracts ; 

 but I suspect it to be a state of that plant. 



16. A. Thwaitesii, Clarke Comp. 2nd. 110; thickly clothed except 

 sometimes the leaves above with dense white or buff cottony wool, stem short 

 stout very woody much branched below, branches 6-10 in. stout below and 

 densely leafy, above slender and sparsely leafy, leaves f-1 in. spreading obovate- 

 oblong or spathulate thick obtuse nerveless, margins flat, upper smaller, heads 

 ^ in. diam. turbinate peduncled, invol. bracts 5 in. elliptic-lanceolate acute white 

 rather spreading. Gnaphalium Wightii, Thwaites Enum. 165, in part (C.P. 528, 

 2048). 



CEYLON ; Central Province, alt. 7-8000 ft., Walker, &c. 



A handsome and very distinct species, with large white heads approaching those 

 of Series I. 



17. A. Notoniana, DC. Prodr. vi. 273; thickly clothed with soft tawny 

 wool, subcorymbosely branched from the base, branches 4-8 in. stout uniformly 

 leafy throughout corymbosely branched at the top, leaves %- % in. often imbricate 

 rect and recurved oblong from a broad ^-amplexicaul base very obtuse equally 

 woolly above and beneath 1-nerved, heads ^ in. diam. campanulate or crowded 

 in branched corymbs, invol. bracts in. erect and densely imbricate in many 

 series oblong obtuse scarious wrinkled yellow or pinkish glistening. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1116; Clarke Comp. 2nd. 109. Helichrysum Notonianum, 2)C. in Wight 

 Contrib. 20. Gnaphalium Notonianum, Wall Cat. 2952. G. Sp., Wall. Cat. 

 2933 (according to De Candolle). 



NILGHERRY Mrs., alt. 8000 ft., Noton, &c. ; at Ootacamund and Cochin, Wight. 



A remarkable species ; the invol. bracts are quite unlike those of any other. The 

 single nerve of the leaf is seen only after removal of the thick wool ; the leaf-margins 

 seem never to be recurved except at the very base. 



18. ? A. cutchica, Clarke Comp. 2nd. Ill; thinly clothed with grey 

 cottony wool, branches 6-10 in. from a woody stock leafy below very slender and 

 nearly leafless above, leaves 1-2 in. slender gradually dilated upwards from a 

 narrow base acute 1-nerved, heads in. long few subcorymbose oblong, invol. 

 bracts in. few erect linear-oblong obtuse hard yellow shining. 



CUTCH, Dr. Sioliczka. 



Very distinct from any foregoing species, but possibly not an Anaphalis, which 

 the involucre is very unlike ; the specimens are insufficient to determine this point. 



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Leaves 3 4 in., 1-nerved; margins usually strongly recurved, but 

 often flat in A. contorta and zeylanica. (See also under ** A. araneosa and 

 oblonga.) 



19. A. contorta, Hook. /. ; stems 4-24 in. stout or slender, branches 

 prostrate or ascending leafy and leaves beneath or on both surfaces cottony, 

 leaves -1 i n sessile ^-amplexicaul often very crowded spreading and twisted 

 narrowly linear or oblong from usually a broad or auricled base acute or obtuse 

 1-nerved, margins often revolute, heads % in. diam. subglobose in dense simple or 

 lobed contracted corymbose clusters, invol. bracts i in. broadly ovate or oblong 

 obtuse white or yellowish, outer often purplish with broad coloured glistening 



