390 LXXVIII. COMPOSITJB. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Gerlera. 



villous ebracteate, heads rayed, invol. bracts cottony, aclienes long with a long- 

 slender beak scaly, pappus red. Oreoseris ovalifolia, Wall. Cat. 2930. G. ovali- 

 folia, DC. I.e. 17; Clarke Comp. Ind. 249. Arnica piloselloides, Linn. Amwn. 

 Acad. vi. 103. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 7000 ft., J. 1). H. 

 KIIASIA MTS., silt. 5000ft., Griffith, &c. LOWER BIRMA; Karen hills, Mason. Drs- 

 TRIB. China, S. Africa. 



Crown and young leaves densely woolly. Leaves 2-5 by 1-2 in., narrowed into the 

 stout short petiole, glabrous or sparsely hairy above, usually white beneath. Scape 

 12-20 in., stout. Head l-l in. diam. ; invol. bracts linear- lanceolate, suberect ; ligules 

 in. long. Aclienes \ in., very slender; pappus about as long. 



2. G. lanug-inosa, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 497 ; leaves obovate or oblan- 

 ceolate acute or acuminate lobulate towards the base or lyrate-pinnatifid or 

 petiole auricled rarely entire glabrous and shining above densely cottony beneath, 

 scape cottony ebracteate, heads rayed, invol. bracts cottony, achenes slender 

 liardly beaked subpapillose, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 249, excl. syn. O. 

 pusilla. Oreoseris launginosa, DC. Prodr. yii. 17; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 76. 

 Oreoseris lanuginosa, Wall. Cat. 2929 A. C. Chaptalia gossypina, Eoyle 111. 

 251, t. 59, f. 2. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Murree, Fleming, to Kumaon, alt. 4-8000 ft. 



Crown and young leaves silkily woolly. Leaves 2-5 by f-1^ in. (exceptionally 

 7-10 by 3-3^ in.), petiole long or short, usually sinuately-pinnatifid at the base only, 

 lobes rounded, rarely entire or pinnatifidly lobed throughout. Scape 4-12 in., cottony, 

 slender. Head 1-2 1 in., cottony ; outer invol. bracts ovate; inner linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, suberect ; ligules ^ in. long. Achenes \ in., ribbed ; pappus in. 



VAR. pusilla ; leaves ^-1 in., terminal lobe rounded or ovate obtuse or acute, scape 

 ^-6 in., heads ^ in. diam. Oreoseris pusilla, DC. Prodr. vii. 17. 0. lanuginosi, Wall. 

 Cat. 2929 B. Nipal, Wallich ; Kumaon and Garwhal, Jamieson, Thomson. This has 

 all the appearance of being a starved state of G. lanuyinosa. 



3. G-. nivea, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 497 : leaves obovate or obovate -spathu- 

 late tip rounded pinnatifidly lobed throughout their length, lobes rounded 

 obscurely toothed, sinus acute or obtuse glabrous above densely cottony beneath, 

 scape cottony ebracteate, invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate cottony, 

 inner large and broad, achenes not seen. Oreoseris ? nivea, DC. Prodr. vii. 17. 

 Senecio niveus, Wall. Cat. 3143. Arnica nivea, Wall. I. c. 



NIPAL, WaUich. 



Leaves petioled, 2-3^- by 11 IT, gradually narrowed from the rounded tip down- 

 wards to the short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above. Scape very slender, cotton}-, 

 longer than the leaves. Heads drooping, 1 in. diam. ; invol. bracts with long points, 

 glabrate. Floicers too young for examination. 



4. C3-. XLunzeana, Braun $ Aschers. in App. Plant, nov. ad Cat. Sem. Hort. 

 Bc-rol. 1871, 3 ; dioacious, leaves oblong or ovate acute or mucronate subentire or 

 margins lobulate or lyrate-pinnatifid or petiole winged glabrous above densely 

 cottony -beneath, lobes apiculate, scape glabrous or cottony above with scattered 

 h'liform bracts, invol. bracts glabrous membranous outer ovate, inner broadly 

 lanceolate acuminate, achenes slender hardly beaked scabrid ribbed, pappus 

 chestnut-brown. G. nivea, Clarke Comp. Ind. 249. Cleistanthiuni nepaleuse, 

 Kunze in Bot. Zeit. 1851, 350. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 7-12,000 ft. 



Similar in habit and foliage to G. lanuginosa, but with different invol. bracts and 

 pappus, and at once distinguished from it and all others of the genus by the filiform 

 bracts on the scape. It is most closely allied to the Chinese G. anandria, Schultz- 

 Bip. mss. (Anandria 'Bcllidiastrum, DC.), which differs in the cottony obtuse invol. 



