286 



Plants of the Punjab. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Entire. 



Anaphalis contorta, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 284. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



Petals united. 



Flowers minute in heads, all tubular. 



small to medium size, branches often prostrate, 

 leaves |-1 by | in., linear, heads -| in. diam. in dense ter- 

 minal flat-topped clusters, outer bracts of the heads often 

 purple ; for other characters see the last species. 



Phagnalon niveum, 



Composit.^. 

 F. B. I. iii. 288. 

 Himalaya, 

 6-8,000ft. 

 Kashmir. 



small, annual, snow-white with dense cottony- 

 wool, branches short and leafy or slender and less leafy ; 

 leaves 1-1| in., ovate with a broad tip to ohlong with 

 rounded ends or linear-oblong, sometimes toothed ; flowers 

 minute, yellow and tubular in axillary solitary or clus- 

 tered heads^ i-| in. diam., on slender stalks, 1-3 in., bracts 

 of the heads awl-shaped, straight, ending in a needle-like 

 point, purplish, outer smaller, grey cottony, pappus hairs 

 slender, rigid, corollas, inner 5-nd, outer 2-3- toothed, 

 anther-bases forked or entire ; achenes small, not ribbed. 



Gnaphalium 

 luteo-album, 

 Jersey cudweed, 

 Bal rahsha. 



COMPOSIT.^. 



F. B. I. iii. 288. 

 The Plains to 

 10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



small, annual, very variable, woolly, much branch- 

 ed ; leaves 1-2 by | in., oblong with blunt tips, base often 

 half stem-clasping, both surfaces woolly, upper leaves 

 lanceolate, short-pointed : flowers minute, whitish, yel- 

 lowish or brownish in heads, |- in. diam., in leafless dense 

 ghstening flat-topped clusters, bracts of the heads oblong, 

 blunt, transparent, yellowish glistening, pappus hairs 

 scanty, short, outer corollas 3-4-toothed, inner larger, 

 5-toothed, anther-bases forked,- cells with slender tails ; 

 achenes oblong, slender, rough with tubercles or minute 

 curved bristles. 



Gnaphalium 

 hypoleucum, 



COMPOSIT.^. 



F. B. I. iii. 288. 

 Himalaya, 

 3-7,000 a 

 Simla (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



very like the last species, but taller and stouter 

 leaves longer, long-pointed, only woolly beneath and often 

 with widely projecting bases. *" 



