StEc. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, whitish- tomentose : leaVel 

 linear, acuminated, roucronulate-, 1-nerved, cobweb-like abo^e; to- 

 inentose below, shortly decumbent at the base : corymb composite ; 

 involucral sCales pure white, sub-obtuse. 



Bindigul hills. 



(3) A. coNTORTA. {Don.^ 



Ideht. Dec. prod. VI. p. 271. — Don. prod. fl. Nep. p. 175. 



Syn. Gnaphaliiim simplicicaule, Tf^all. Cat. Nd. 3946. — Gf. 

 contortum, Spreng^. Si/St. lU, j>. 499. 



Engrav. Don. in Bot. Reg. t. 605. 



Spec. Char. Stem sufiruticose, brafached, el-ect : leaves liiiear^ 

 mucronate, sessile, younger ones toraentose, incurvied, rtevolute at 

 the margin, adult ones twisted : capitula aggregated in somewhat 

 capitate simple or composite corymbs : involucral scales oblongj 

 lightly obtuse. 



Pundua, Silhet. 



QfENUS iiVlt. ANAPHALIS; 

 Sylk. Poll Superflua; Sex: Syst: 



t)eriv. the name ef a plant classed by the ancient Greeks hexi 

 to Onaphalium. 



GiKi Char. Capitula heterogamoUSj discoid; marginal florets 

 few or masy-series) female^ disk ones hermaphrodite, sterilej 5- 

 toothed : styles of the marginal florets loi^^xsertedj bifid, of the 

 disk undivided : achaenia glabrous, sessile^ beakless : pappus 1 i 

 series, uniform, bristles i-Ough.-^^Herbaceous or suffrnticose, woolly 

 or tomentose plants: stems sometimes l-headed^ oftener ffiany-- 

 headed, corymbose : involucral scales niveo-scariose^ lanceolate^ 

 several-series, the middle ones with a brownish claw : receptacle 

 convex, alveolate. 



(1) A. Neilgherryana. (Bee.)' 



Identi itec. prod. VI. p. 272.^Wight's Contrib. p. 21. 



Spi. Gnaphalium Neilgherryanum, R. W. 



Engrafi. Wight*s Icon. t. 478. 



Spec Char. Stem suffruticosej many-headed^ low : flowering 

 branches eredt, tomentose : lower leaves very densely clustered, im- 

 bricated backwards, linear, subobtlise, lower ones glabrous, upper- 

 inost ones as far as the flowering branches erect, tomentose, acute^ 

 somewhat distant : capitula closely clustered in a terminal corynib : 

 involucral sdales oblong-linear, subacute, longer- than the disk^ 

 white-eoloured. 



Neilgherries. 



