A.naplialis.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 287 



Tery many - in. 1-nerved and cottony on both surfaces, lower spreading- 

 linear-oblong" obtuse with recurved margins, upper erect often imbricate narrower, 

 heads ^ in. diam. peduncled, invol. bracts f in. oblong-lanceolate obtuse rather 

 spreading and incurved white opaque. Clarke Comp. 2nd. 110. Gnaphalium 

 brevifolium, Thivaites Enum. 166, excl. syn. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Anamallay hills, Wight. CEYLON ; central province, alt. 

 6-7000 ft., Macrae, &c. 



A very distinct plant, if not a slender very elongate var. of A. neelgerriana (some 

 specimens have similar flowerless, short, leafy branches), it appears, however, to be 

 an annual, or at most a biennial, and has usually much larger heads than the last 

 named. A Khasian form of A. contorta resembles this a good deal. 



27. A. neelg-erriana, DC. Prodr. vi. 272; wholly clothed with cottony 

 wool, branches very many crowded on a stout perennial woody stock, some 

 very short densely leafy flowerless, others 4-10 in. long and flower-bearing, 

 leaves - in. narrowly linear those on the flowerless branches and base of the 

 flowering most dense spreading and reflexed, on the upper part of the 

 flowering branches erect, all acute with recurved margins, heads - in. diam. 

 sessile most densely crowded or solitary or in corymbose clusters, invol. bracts 

 ^ in. long elliptic-oblong or lanceolate obtuse or acute white opaque. Wight Ic. 

 t. 478; Clarke Comp. Ind. 110. Gnaphalium neelgerrianum, DC. in Wight 

 Contrib. 21. G. nilagiricum, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack, n. 1038. 



NILGHERRY Mrs. ; alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 



Under A. brevifolia, its only near ally. I have indicated the differences between 

 that plant and this, but they are far from satisfactory. 



40. LASIOPOGON, Cass. 



Minute, much branched, densely woolly annuals. Leaves alternate, quite 

 entire. Heads in crowded clusters, heterogamous, disciform ; fl. all fertile, 

 outer , 2-seriate, filiform, toothed ; disk-fl. 5 , few or many, slender, limb 

 dilated 3-toothed. Involucre campanulate ; bracts few-seriate, inner subhyaline, 

 outer woolly; receptacle small, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, tails slender. 

 Style-arms of slender, truncate. Achenes subfusiform ; pappus-hairs 1 -seriate, 

 separately caducous, feathery. DISTRIB. Species 2, oriental and African. 



Xi. 1 ana turn, Cass. in Diet. So. Nat. xxv. 302 ; branches many from 

 the root filiform prostrate, leaves linear-oblong or spathulate, heads in globose 

 villous clusters subtended by floral leaves of their own length, invol. bracts 

 linear obtuse scarious. L. muscoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 246 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iii. 224. Gnaphalium muscoides, Desfont. FL Atlant. ii. 267, t. 231. 



The PUNJAB; Peshawur, Vicary, Aitchison. DISTRIB. "Westwards to Algeria and 

 Spain. South Africa. 



"Whole plant 1-2 in. diam., looking like a cluster of cottony balls on the ground, 

 both leaves and flowers being hidden by the woolly clothing ; the leaves are ^-\ in. 

 long, and the heads about in. long. 



41. FHAGNAXiON, Cass. 



Shrubs, cottony or woolly, rarely perennial glabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 entire or sinuate-toothed. Heads solitary or fascicled, yellow, heterogamous, 

 disciform, flowers all fertile ; outer fl. $ , GO -seriate, filiform, minutely 2-3- 

 toothed; slender, tubular, limb hardly dilated 5-fid. Involucre campanulate 

 or ovora ; bracts oo -seriate, dry, subulate or ovate-lanceolate, tips scarious, outer 

 smaller; receptacle flat, naked or pitted. Anther-bases entire or sagittate, 



