liXxviii. coMPOSiTiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 285 



■bases. A. tenella, DC. Prodr. vi, 273, excl. Syn. of Don; Clarke Comp. Ind. 

 107. A. Falooneri, Clarice, I. e. 107. Antennaria contorta, Don in Bet. Reg. 

 t. 605; Prodr. 175; DC. Prodr. yi. 271. Gnaphalium tenellum and simplici- 

 caule, WttU,. Cat. 2941, 2946. G. eontortum, Sam. ; Spi-eng. Syst. Veg. iii. 479. 



Temperate and Subalpine Himalata, common, from 9-11,000 ft. in Kashmir to 

 7-13,000 ft. in Sikkim. Mishmi Hills, Griffith. Khasu. Mts.„ alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Very variable; branches usually woody below, even when slender above, with 

 sometimes many very short arrested leafy shoots. Leaves quite linear or narrowed 

 downwards, or oblong. — De CandoUe's A. tenella is founded on small young specimens 

 of Wallich's, with linear leaves hardly auricled at the base,, and coloured outer invol. 

 bracts ; but the usual forms of A. contorta have long strict branches clothed with 

 almost narrow leaves that taper from a broad cordate base ; some Kunawur specimens 

 have oblong obtuse leaves with crisped recurved margins, quite unlike the normal 

 state of the plant. A very large form from Bhotan and Mishmi approaches A. cmma- 

 momea, but has small heads. Some Khasian specimens have leaves somewhat decur- 

 rent, and appear to pass into a form of araneosa ; others have quite the habit of A. 

 hrevifolia ; stiU others from the higher Himalaya resemble small-headed specimens of 

 A. Boyleana ; and a few forms are with difficulty distinguished from A. virgata, except 

 by the sessile heads; The name tenella is quite inapplicable to this plant in any of its 

 forms, and as De CandoUe, who first described it under that name, confounded it with 

 Don's Heliehrysium sioUmiferum, his name had better be suppressed for the very appli- 

 cable and generally known one of oontorta, under which it is well described by Don 

 and De Candolle, and figured in the Botanical Begister. 



20. A. vlrg^ata, Thorns, in Clarke Comp. Ind. 107; whoUy clothed ■with 

 softly cottony wool, stems many 8-16 in. slender strict erect rigid from a woody 

 stock simple or corymbosely branched above, leaves 1-1^ in. spreading narrowly 

 linear from a broad or narrow base apiculate, margins flat or recurved, heads ^-^ 

 in. diam. campanulate very numerous peduncled in open branched corymbs, 

 invol. bracts J in. long linear-oblong obtuse lower half rigid upper white or 

 yellowish. 



KjiNAwrnE, Lahul, and 'Wbsteen Tibet, alt. 8-1 3,000 ft., Jacguemont, Thomson, 

 &c. 



A very distinct species ; the leaves have, usually narrow bases, and vary from ^L_^ 

 in. diam., in the latter case they are flat and elliptic-lanceolate; the individual heads 

 are usually peduncled. A. Stolicziai may be a form of this. 



21. A. leptopbylla, DC. Prodr. vL 273 ; clothed with white cottony 

 wool, stems 6-18 in. very slender sparingly branched leafy, leaves 1-1 J in. sessile 

 linear slender apiculate cottony on both surfaces, margins strongly recm'ved, 

 Heads few ^ in. diam. peduncled, invol. bracts | in. linear-lanceolate acute or 

 acuminate rather spreading white, flowers numeroxis. Clarke Comp. Ind. 111. 

 Helichrysum leptophyUum, DC. in Wight Contrib. 20. 



NiLGHEBEY Mts., alt. 6-8000 ft., Wi^ht, &e. 



The cottony white clothing, together with its very slender habit, narrow leaves, 

 and usually peduncled heads with spreading invol. bracts (as in Series I.), distinguish 

 this from all but A. brevifolia, which has shorter closer leaves. 



22. A. aristata, DC. Prodr. vi. 274 ; stem woody below, branches 12-24 

 in. stout pubescent or tomentose wooEy above leafy, leaves 2-4 in. spreading and 

 recurved narrow gradually tapering from a broad auricled ^-amplexicaul base to 

 a very slender recurved point puberuloue or hoary above cottony or woolly be- 

 neath, midrib strong beneath, margins recurved, heads Jg in. diam. turoinate in 

 densely corymbose globose clusters, invol. bract linear-oblong obtuse erect white 

 yellowish or pink gUstening. Wight Ic. t. 1119 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 112. 



NiLGHEBET Mrs., Wight, &c. 



The leaves are described by both De Candolle and Wight as shortly deourrent, but 



