290 LXXYiii. COMPOSITJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) J_Onaph.a'U'um. 



Throughout the plains of India, from the Punjab and Seind to Pegu, Ava and the 

 Deocan. — Distbib. Egypt. 



This closely resembles the G. crispatidtim, Del., also a Nile Valley plant, but is 

 ■distinguished by the narrow acute invol. bracts. 



6. G. Thomson!, Hook. f. ; softly cottony, stems rather stout erect 

 simple or many from the root erect leafy, leaves linear acute, heads J in. diam. 

 in sessile globose terminal clusters subtended by slender leaves, invol. bracts 

 linear-oblong obtuse scarious brown shining with a strong green central nerve 

 half way down, achenes minutely papillose, pappus-haira not coherent at the 

 base. G-. uliginosum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 115, not of linn. 



Westbrn Himalaya. ; Kashmir, alt. 5-7000 ft., Thomson, Stewart, Srandis. 



A very distinct annual ? species. Stem 4-6 in. Leaves 1-1 J in. Heads in pale 

 globose clusters an inch in diameter, subtended by spreading leaves ; flowers 

 numerous. 



7. Ct. flaccldum, Kurx in Clarke Comp. Ind. 115 ; Joum. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 182 ; sparingly cottony, stem simple or branching from the root erect 

 flexuous, leaves obovate-spathulate flaccid, tips rounded, heads minute ^ in. 

 crowded into a terminal peduncled globose cluster subtended by leaves shorter 

 than itself, invol. bracts hyaline outer broadly oblong or obovate obtuse, inner 

 narrower yeHow glistening. 



Bengax ; Purwal, near Maldah, Clarice. Pegu, Kwre. 



A flaccid green annual, 4-6 in. high. Leaves 1-2 in. long, very flaccid. Clusters 

 of Tieads quite globose, 1-lJ in. diam. pale yellow. Achenes immature. 



43. KEX.ICKRYSVIII, Gc^n. 



Herbs or shrubs, often wooUy or tomentose. Leaves alternate (the lower 

 rarely opposite), quite entire. Heads solitary or coi-ymbose, few or many fld., 

 homogamous (or heterogamous with few outer 5 fl.) ; flowers aU fertile, or 

 rarely the central sterile ; $ filiform, minutely toothed ; g tubular, limb 4-5- 

 toothed. Involiicre of various forms ; bracts 00 -seriate, scarious, appressed or 

 loose, or with a spreading yellow red white or brown long or short scarious 

 limb ; receptacle various, naked or pitted or with the margins of the pits vrith 

 bristles or pales. Anther-bases sagittate, tails simple or branched. Style-arms 

 of g truncate or subcapitate. Achenes small, terete, 5-angled or subeompressed ; 

 pappus-hairs 1- rarely 00 -seriate, free or connate below, dilated and bearded or 

 feathery above. — ^Distkib. About 260, species chiefly of temperate and sub- 

 tropical regions. 



The Indian species are not distinguishable by habit from Anaphalis. Gnapha- 

 Irnin macranihiim, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenaek. u. 1023 and G. chrysanthnm, 

 Schultz-Bip. I.e. 1020 are both S. African HeUchrysa and garden escapes. Ana- 

 phalis Beddomei may be a species of HeUchrysvm. 



1. K. buddleioides, DC. in Wight Contrib. 20 ; Prodr. vi. 201 ; shrubby, 

 stem robust leaves beneath and corymbs densely cottony, leaves large sessile 

 elliptie-lanceolate acuminate 3-9-nerved, heads subcampanulate yellow in many 

 globose corymbose clusters, invol. bracts oblong, inner with a short rounded 

 scarious blade, achenes scabrid. 



Westben PsHmsuLA; on the Ghats from Bombay to Cochin. Ceylon, alt. 

 7-8000 ft. 



Stems 4-6 ft. high and branches as thick as a goose- or swan's-quill, tomentose, 

 white grey or cinnamon-brown. Leaves 2-5 by ^-1^ in., nerves parallel, grooved 

 above. Corymbs 4-8 in. diam., the globose clusters \-\ in. diam. ; heads campanu- 



