Zeontopodivm.] ixxTin. composi'm. (J. D. Hooker.) 279 



1-seriate, shortly lieai'ded, bases sub-conuate. — Dibteib. Species 5, on the 

 mountains of Europe and Asia. 



Xi. alplnum, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 275 ; Meichb. Ic. Fl. Oei-m. t. 947; 

 •Clarke Comp. Ind. 100. L. himalayanum,Z)CW. e. L. monocephalum, -EWijfew. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soe. xx. 73. Gnaphalium pulchellum, Wall. Cat. 2945. 



Alpine Himalaya and Tibet, ascending from 10,000 to nearly 18,000 ft. — ^Disteib. 

 Alps of Europe and Central Asia. 



This, the Edel-Weiss of the European Alps, is very variable in habit and in the 

 length of foliage, amount of TvooUiness and size of the involucriform leaves ; the 

 rosulate lower leaves vary from obovate-oblong and J in. long, to linear and l-lj in. 

 long, equally woolly on both surfaces or less so or almost glabrate above ; flowering 

 stem 1-8 in., erect or ascending, slender or stout, sparingly or densely leafy or woolly ; 

 cauline leaves sessile or ^-amplexicaul, linear or linear-oblong, rarely obovate, obtuse 

 or acute; involucriform leaves j-1 in. long, linear or dilated upwards, spreading or 

 recurved, almost always densely clothed with yellowish wool, always longer than the 

 cluster of heads. Heads monoecious, j in. long ; invol. bracts erect, scarious, oblong- 

 Janceolate, acuminate, tipped with purple. Achenes papillose if fertile, smooth if 

 sterile ; pappus hairs of ? filiform, of S thickened towards the tips. 



Vae. Stracheyi; stem 12 in. filiform nearly glabrous, radical leaves 0, cauline lan- 

 ceolate acuminate base auricled cobwebby above, snow-white and woolly beneath. — 

 Kumaon at Tola, alt. 11,500 ft.. Sir. Sf Winterb. Nipal, J. Scully. This appears to 

 me to be a state of L. alpina, drawn up amongst rocks, but it is a very peculiar one. 



39. ANAFKAIiXS, DC. 



Perennial, rarely annual, erect, cottony or woolly, rarely pubescent or glabrate 

 herbs. Leaves alternate. Heads small, corymbose, heterogamous vrith the $ 

 fl. outermost, or unisexual or subdioecious, disciform ; fl. $ numerous, filiform, 

 fertile, 2^^toothed ; fl. 5 usually sterile, tubular, limb subcampanulate 6-fid. 

 Involucre campanulate turbinate or sub-globose ; bracts oo nseriate, scarious, 

 inner with a petaloid limb, outer shorter, outermost woolly ; receptacle naked. 

 Anther-bases sagittate; aimcles connate, tailed. Style of § filiform, obtuse, 

 subcapitate or 2-cleft. Achenes very small, oblong; pappus hairs of J 1-seriate, 

 slender, scabrid, quite free and caducous, of § often thickened at the tips. — 

 DisiKlB. Species about 25, chiefly temperate and mountain plants of Asia and 

 America. 



It is difScult to conceive a more troublesome as.'semblage of plants to discriminate 

 and describe than this genus presents, 'ihe following arrangement of the Indian 

 species is quite artificial. I have vainly sought good characters in the nuniber of the 

 flowers and of 5 and ? flowers in a head ; these vary much in the same plant, and in 

 diflferent plants of the same species, and I suspect that the size of head which diflfers 

 in very similar plants and which is relied on as a specific character in often only a 

 sexual one. In some (as A. oblonga) the disk-flowers are all fertile, thus breaking 

 down the character between this genus and (rnaphalium ; in fact the differences be- 

 tween these genera and Heliehrysum, Antennaria and Leoniopodmm are artificial and 

 hardly sufficient for practical purposes. 



Sekies I. Heads large, ^-f in. diam, (except in A. xylorhiza and Royleana), 

 more or less stellately spreading, acute or acuminate, white. — All Himalayan 

 and mostly Alpine. 



1. A. tmhiseiia,, DC. Prodr. vi. 272 ; dwarf, softly woolly or cottbny, 

 stems simple tufted 1-8 in., leaves elliptic or lanceolate or lowest obovate-spathu- 

 late 1-nerved acute or with a naked point or awn, base contracted, heads 1 or 

 few J-1 in. diam., invol. bracts lanceolate obtuse or subacute \ to more than ^ 

 in. long. . 



