602 BENGAL PLANTS. [Gnaphalium. 
457. Gnaphalium Linn. 
Hoary or woolly herbs; leaves alternate, quite entire. pest 
heads small, heterogamous, disciform, in terminal or 1 
corymbs or fascicles; outer florets female, 2- or more- spun , 
inner fewer, hermaphrodite, all fertile ; involucre ovoid or ¥ 
panulate ; bracts many-seriate, all scarious, or with a aac 
yellow, or brown, more or less scarious lamina; receptacle a a 
or pitted. Calyz-limb setose. Petals of female florets connate 5 
liform corollas, 3-4-toothed at apex ; of hermaphrodite etre! 
connate in ian slender, tubular corollas, with dilated, 5-to0o atl 
imb. S ms syngenesious ; anthers with sagittate base ; ¢ # 
with slender ‘eile, Style of hermaphrodite florets with paren 
or capitate arms. Cypsela oblong or obovoid, smooth ; pi 
airs aren slender or thickened at tip, connate or not ai ’ 
caducou 
Heads in leafless, corymbose clusters :— fie 
Stems usually many from the root ; heads golden-yello 
‘ : luteo- site var. multiceps. 
Stems corymbosely branched above; heads ts 
se 4 uteo- ee var. pallidum. 
Heads leafy :— AP SES 
Heads arranged in simple or branched leafy spikes... Jae indicu 
Heads in rounded axillary or terminal leafy clusters i 
Densely woolly ; leaves small, spathulate ; cals of oe the est 
lanceolate, green with straw-coloured ti LPS -veeseseeeseceees aaa: 
Sparingly cottony ; leaves obovate-spathulate, rather ars i 
bracts of involucre broadly oblong, with glistening whi ihe 
coloured tips fia 
oeeeersnceets®, 
teens eee 
1063. GNAPHALIUM LUTEO-aALBUM Linn. var. vig Hae B. 1. 
iti. 288; E. D. G. 802. G. orixense F. I. iii 
ie Bes | om Orissa. 
annual weed. : 
1063/2. Vee pattipum FP, B. I. iii, 288; E. D. G. 302. albo 
luteum F., I. iii. 425. 
In most of the provinces. 
annu 
1064. GwarHatium inpicum Linn. ; F. B. I. iii. 289. G. simictu™ 
F. I. iii. 424. G. ri aes te I. iii. 425, 
In all the provinces. 
A slender cottony weed. 
