Helichrysum.'] LXXVITI. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 291 



late, in. diam. Achenes distinctly scabrid as figured by "Wight (not glabrous as 

 described both by DC. and Wight). 



VAB. 1. buddleioides proper; leaves larger, nerves 5-9 very prominent beneath, 

 heads yellow. H. buddleioides, DC. 1. c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1113 ; Clarke Comp. In<L lie'. 

 <?Tnaphalium cynoglossoides, Schidtz-Bip. in Herb. Hohen. n. 1043, not of Trev. G. 

 sp., Wall. Cat. 2932. Western Peninsula only. 



VAB. 2. Hookeriana; smaller, leaves I$~2 in. 3-5-nerved more densely cottony 

 beneath obscuring the nerves, heads paler. H. Hookerianum, DC. Prodr. vi. 201 ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 116. Grnaphalium Hookerianum and G. Wightianum in part, 

 Thwaites Enum. 126. Travancor, at Courtallam, Wight. Ceylon ; central province, 

 alt. 6-7000 ft., Walker, &c. I can find no specific character for this plant, the 

 tomentum varies, as in the type from white to cinnamon brown. 



2. H. Wig-htii, Clarke mss. ; shrubby, branched, all parts with thick 

 appressed wool, leaves sessile on the flowerless branches linear-lanceolate thick 

 with 5-7 thick close-set parallel nerves tips recurved, those on the flowering 

 "branches smaller linear recurved, heads in subglobose corymbose clusters, invol. 

 tracts oblong acute or subacute scarious. 



NILGHEKKY HIIXS ; Sisparah Ghat, Wight. 



I have seen but one specimen in Wight's Herbarium, it differs from H. buddleioides, 

 in the short leafy branches, the narrower leaves, woolly on both surfaces, the smaller 

 heads and very different invol. bracts. 



44. CJESULI A, Roxb. 



A glabrous marsh-herb. Leaves alternate, serrulate. Heads in sessile, 

 axillary, involucrate balls, each sessile on a broad convex common receptacle, 

 1-fld. , fl. tubular, limb narrowly campanulate, deeply 5-fid. Involucral bracts 

 2, opposite, keeled or winged, and at length adnate to and including the acheue. 

 Anther-bases sagittate, tails branched. Style-arms short, linear-cuneate, sub- 

 truncate. Achenes included in the laterally compressed bracts ; pappus 0. 



C. axillaris, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 62 ; Fl. Ind. v. 482 ; Cav. Ic. i. 64, t. 

 93; DC. in Wight Contrib. 11; Prodr. v. 482; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl, 126; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1102; Wall. Cat. 3183; Clarke Comp. Ind. 116. Meyera orien- 

 talis, Don Prodr. 180. 



Throughout NORTHERN INDIA; common in rice fields, ascending to 3000 ft., from 

 the Punjab to Chittagong and the Deccan ; (absent in Ceylon and the Eastern 

 Peninsula). 



Stems stout, prostrate or suberect, 6-12 in. Leaves 2-4 in., sessile, acuminate at 

 both ends, nerves very numerous, base dilated subauricled. Heads f in. diam. and 

 under. 



45. INUZ.A, Linn. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves radical and alternate. Heads solitary, corym- 

 bose or panicled, heterogamous, radiate, rarely disciform ; ray-fl. $ , l-oo - 

 seriate, fertile, ligule long short or minute, yellow or white, 3-toothed ; disk-fl. 

 , fertile, tubular, vellow, limb elongate 5-toothed. Involucre broad or rather 

 narrow ; bracts oo -seriate, inner usually rigid and narrow, outer herbaceous, 

 outermost often foliaceous ; receptacle flat or tumid, pitted or areolate. Anther- 

 bases sagittate, tails long simple or branched. Style-arms of ty linear, broader 

 upwards, obtuse. Achenes subterete, usually ribbed ; pappus hairs rather short, 

 1-2-seriate, few or many, smooth scabrid or bearded. DISTRIB. Species about 

 56, European, African and Asiatic. 



SECT. I. Corvisartia. Tall stout herbs. Heads large, solitary or race- 



