286 Lxxviii. COMPOSITJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [AnapJialis. 



they are not so in the very numerous specimens examined. In habit, pubescence, 

 foliage, colour, and inflorescence this very much resembles A. Wightiana, but the 

 heads are quite minute turbinate and few-flowered, and the leaves usually taper to a 

 very fine point. 



23. A. Wl^btiana, i)C. Prodr. vi. 273; stems woody and branched 

 below, branches stout ascending leafy loosely cottony and woolly, leaves f-1^ in. 

 erect and recurved broadly linear from a ^-amplexicaul base obtuse soabrid 

 above loosely cottony and whitish beneath, midrib strong beneath, margins 

 strongly recurved, heads \ in. diam. sessile turbinate densely packed in rounded 

 corymbose clusters, invol. bracts J in. long linear-oblong subacute white glisten- 

 ing. Wight Ic. t. 1117; Clarke Comp. Ind. 111. GnaphaJium Wightianum, 

 DC. in Wight Contrib. 21 ; Wall. Cat. 2940 B. 



NiiGHEBEY Mrs., alt. 6-7000 ft., Wight, See. 



A good deal like A. aristata, but the heads are much larger, with numerous flowers, 

 and the invol. bracts are acute. Leaves usually rounded at the tip, hut with some- 

 times a recurved awn. 



24. A. zeylanica, Clarke mss. ; stem 6-18 in. ascending puberulous or 

 glabrate below cottony above, leaves 1-1^ in. linear-oblong from a broad J-am- 

 plexicaul base obtuse or apiculate 1-3-nerved, glabrous on both surfaces or 

 cottony beneath rarely above, margins recurved often decurrent, heads turbinate 

 |-J in. diam. sesaUe or peduncled, invol. bracts ^ in. spreading oblong subacute 

 or obtuse white opaque with a slender dark claw. A, Wightiana, Thwaites 

 Enum. 166 (O.P. 1763 and 568). 



Ceylon ; Central Province, alt. 6-6000 ft,, in rocky places, Walker, Thwaites, &c. 



A very variable plant ; the colour and habit is that of A. aristata, but the large 

 usually peduncled heads are quite diiferent, and resemble more those of A. byevifolia. 

 Thwaites himself is puzzled by it, and sends it under three forms — 1, from Newera 

 EUia, with usually glabrous leaves ; 2, from Pedrolatagala, with the young leaves 

 woolly on both surfaces, and broader more obtuse invol. bracts ; 3, a^form from Newera 

 EUia, referred to G. semidecvrrens, with very narrow acuminate leaves 2 in. long, cot- 

 tony beneath, and invol. bracts as in 2. This last Clarke inclines to regard as a form 

 of A. marcescem, in which the bracts are usually scarious and undulated, and the 

 leaves broader beyond the middle and cinnamoneous beneath ; it may be a hybrid. 



25. A. marcescens, Clarke Comp. Ind. 110; stems slender woody much 

 branched leafy and leaves beneath densely clothed with fulvous cottony wool, 

 leaves 1-1^^ in. spreading recurved or reflexed very narrow linear from a narrow 

 base or slightly dilated upwards glabrous above 1-nerved, margins strongly re- 

 curved, heads J in. diam. turbinate sessUe or peduncled in very dense rounded 

 subcorymbose clusters, invol. bracts ^ in. obovate-oblong, outer with rounded 

 tips very membranous transversely waved glistening, inner spreading with a short 

 white subacute or obtuse limb. A. linearis, DC?; Schvltz-Bip. mss. in Herb. 

 JIohen.,n. 649. Gnaphalium marcescens, Wight Ic. t. 1116. Q-. cinnamomeum, 

 Schvltz-Bip. I. c, n. 134. 



NrLGHEEEY Mis., Wight, &o. Ceylon; Central Province, alt. 7-8000 ft., 

 Walker, &c. 



The slender, woody, much branched, twiggy habit, coriaceous narrow leaves, 

 glabrous above, with revolute margins, and dose, usually fulvous-brown cottony 

 tomentum, well distinguish this species. The heads of the Ceylon specimens are rather 

 larger than the continental. A. fruticosa may be a very large state of this. 



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Leaves J-J in. long, very narrow, margins revolute. 



26. A. brevifolia, BC. Prodr. vi. 273 ; clothed with white cottony wool, 

 stem much branched below, branches very slender erect densely leafy, leaves 



