290 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Gnaplialium. 



Throughout the plains of INDIA, from the Punjab and Scind to Pegu, Ava and the 

 Deccan. DISTRIB. Egypt. 



This closely resembles the Gr. crispatulum, Del., also a Nile Valley plant, but is 

 distinguished by the narrow acute invol. bracts. 



6. Or. Thomson!, Hook. f. ; softly cottony, stems rather stout erect 

 simple or many from the root erect leafy, leaves linear acute, heads in. diani. 

 in sessile globose terminal clusters subtended by slender leaves, invol. bracts 

 linear-oblong obtuse scarious brown shining with a strong green central nerve 

 half way down, achenes minutely papillose, pappus-hairs not coherent at the 

 base. G. uliginosum, Clarke Comp. I&l. 115, not of Linn. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir, alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson, Stewart, Brandis. 



A very distinct annual ? species. Stem 4-6 in. Leaves 1-1^ in. Heads in pale 

 globose clusters an inch in diameter, subtended by spreading leaves ; flowers 

 numerous. 



7. Gr. flaccidum, Kurz in Clarke Comp. 2nd. 115 ; Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 182 ; sparingly cottony, stem simple or branching from the root erect 

 flexuoiis, leaves oboyate-spathulate flaccid, tips rounded, heads minute ^ in. 

 crowded into a terminal peduncled globose cluster subtended by leaves shorter 

 than itself, invol. bracts hyaline outer broadly oblong or obovate obtuse, inner 

 narrower yellow glistening. 



BENGAL ; Purwal, near Maldah, Clarke. PEGU, Kurz. 



A flaccid green annual, 4-6 in. high. Leaves 1-2 in. long, very flaccid. Clusters 

 of heads quite globose, 1-1 in. diam. pale yellow. Achenes immature. 



43. HELICHRYSUirc, Gcertn. 



Herbs or shrubs, often woolly or tomentose. Leaves alternate (the lower 

 rarely opposite), quite entire. Heads solitary or corymbose, few or many fld., 

 homogamous (or heterogamous with few outer $ fl.) ; flowers all fertile, or 

 rarely the central sterile ; <j> filiform, minutely toothed ; $ tubular, limb 4-5- 

 toothed. Involucre of various forms ; bracts QO -seriate, scarious, appressed or 

 loose, or with a spreading yellow red white or brown long or short scarious 

 limb ; receptacle various, naked or pitted or with the margins of the pits with 

 bristles or pales. Anther-bases sagittate, tails simple or branched. Style-arms 

 of truncate or subcapitate. Achenes small, terete, 5-angled or subcompressed ; 

 pappus-hairs 1- rarely oo -seriate, free or connate below, dilated and bearded or 

 feathery above. DISTKIB. About 260, species chiefly of temperate and sub- 

 tropical regions. 



The Indian species are not distinguishable by habit from Anaphalis. Gnapha- 

 lium macranthum, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1023 and Gr. chrysanthu/n, 

 Schultz-Bip. I.e. 1020 are both S. African Helichrysa and garden escapes. Ana- 

 phalis Beddomei may be a species of Helichrysum. 



1. XX. buddleioides, DC. in Wight Contrib. 20 ; Prodr. vi. 201 ; shrubby, 

 stem robust leaves beneath and corymbs densely cottony, leaves large sessile 

 elliptic-lanceolate acuminate 3-9-nerved, heads subcarnpanulate yellow in many 

 globose corymbose clusters, invol. bracts oblong, inner with a short rounded 

 scarious blade, achenes scabrid. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from Bombay to Cochin. CEYLON, alt. 

 7-8000 ft. 



Stems 4-6 ft. high and branches as thick as a goose- or swan's-quill, tomentose, 

 white grey or cinnamon-brown. Leaves 2-5 by -l in., nerves parallel, grooved 

 a*bove. Corymbs 4-8 in. diam., the globose clusters \~l in. diam. ; heads campanu- 



