278 LXXTni. coMPOSiTiE. (J. D. Hooker.) [_Antennaria. 



acute, heads 2-3-nate nestling amongst the leaves throughout the length of the 

 branches reddish, invol. bracts scarious aristate. I. cauliflora, Clarke Comp^ 

 Ind. 99. I. spicata, iSchultz-Bip. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 248. Trichogyn& 

 cauliflora, DC. Prodr. vi. 266. GnaphaUum spicatum, Vahl. G. anemophilum. 

 Wall. Cat. 2943. 



Uppek Gangbtio plains, from Saharunpore westwards to the frontier. — Disteib.. 

 Westward to the Canaries. 



Woolly or glabrate. Branches 4-6 in. high, 1 in. diam. across the leaves, 

 densely clothed with leaves and heads. Heads ^ in. long, glistening, glabrous ; invol. 

 bracts and pappus red. 



37. ANTENNA RX A, Gaertn. 



Tufted perennial herbs, woolly or tomentose. Leaves spathulate, quite 

 entire, radical, often rosulate. Heads solitary or in terminal corymbs, disciform,, 

 dioecious; fl. 2 all fertile, filiform, truncate or minutely toothed; g sterile,, 

 tubular, limb campanulate 5- rarely 4-fid. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; 

 bi-acts cx) -seidate, scarious, innermost woolly ; recept. convex or nearly flat, 

 pitted, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles connate caudate. Styles of g 

 imdivided or 2-fid., tips obtuse or truncate. Achenes of $ small, oblong, terete 

 or sub-compressed, not ribbed ; pappus-hairs of 5 copious, slender, connate at 

 the base ; of fl. g fewer, crisped. — Disirib. Species about 10, mountain plant* 

 of various countries. 



The dioecious flowers are the only character that distinguishes this genus from 



1. A. nana, Hook. f. Sr Thorns.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 100; stemless, 

 leaves spreading J-1 in., heads subsessile solitary, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate 

 acute upper half and margins hyaline. 



Western Tibet ; Nubra and Shayut valleys, &c., alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson. 



A densely tufted woolly herb, 1-3 in. high. Leaves linear spathulate or oblaueeo- 

 late, woolly on both surfaces. Heads small, sessile amongst the leaves or shortly 

 pedunoled, i in. diam., dioecious. Pappits copious, white, hairs slender, tips not dilated, 

 or bearded. — An anomalous Antennaria, the pappus of the $ not being bearded or 

 dilated at the tip. 



2. A. muscoides, Hook. f. Sr Thorns.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 100; leaves 

 minute densely imbricate, heads solitary sessile, invol. bracts lineai'-oblong 

 subacute almost wholly hyaline. 



SncTtTM Himalaya in the interior ranges ; alt. 16-18,000 ft., J. D. H. 



There are two forms of this, one is quite moss-like, very compactly tufted, forming- 

 great white cushions on the bare ground ; its leaves are about i in. long, closely im- 

 bricated with the rounded blade spreading starlike on the surface of the mass ; the 

 other grows more loosely, with spathulate spreading leaves J in. long. Pappus hairs 

 connate at the base, as are those of A. nana. 



38. ZiEONTOFODZUnX, Br. 



Perennial tufted woolly herbs, with simple leafy flowering stems. Leaves 

 quite entii-e. Heads small, sessile in involucrate clusters, disciform, unisexual 

 or 2-sexual with the ? flowers outermost ; fl. 5 fertile, filiform, truncate or 

 minutely toothed; fl. 5 tubular, sterile, limb campanulate 6-fld. Involucre' 

 campanulate, bracts 00 -seriate, scarious, inner acute or with a spreading petaloid. 

 limb, outer smaller, outermost woolly; recept. convex, naked. Anther-bases 

 sa.gittate, auricles with slender tails. Styles of g usually entire, obtuse or trun- 

 cate. Achenes of ? small, oblong, subterete, not ribbed ; pappus haii-s slender. 



