Spec. Char. Whole plant covered -with pure white down : steni 

 '^suffruticose at the base, low, branched : leaves elliptic, mucronuliite, 

 ■^uite ejttjre, downy, 5-7-nerved, adnata Or shortly decurrentt ca- 

 ipitula collected into an ovate terminal corymb thickly surrounded 

 by leaves : ih'vblucral spales oval, acute, scariose lat the apex, fed* 

 dish-white. 



^eilgherries. 



(10) A. ARISTATA. (Dec.) 



kdent. Dec. prod. VI. p. 274. 



Syn. Gnaphaliiim aris\atum, Wight's Contrib. p. 21. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1119. 



Spec Char. Stem suffruticulose at the base, branched, erect,' 

 scabrous from the apex to the leafy base, tomentose at the apex : 

 leaves linear, elongated^ aristately mucronate : margins subrevolute, 

 dilated and cordate at the base, shortly decurrent, scabrous above, 

 'with the middle nerve somewbat tomentose, below hoary-tomentose^ 

 \»ith the middle nerve scabrous : capitula condensed into a very 

 thick composite terminal corymb : involucral scales dVal, obt'usei 

 ■white and rose-coloured, glabrous-. 



Nei'lgherries. 



(11) A. ADNATA. CWall.) 



ident. Wall. Cat. No. 2948.— -Dec. prod. "VI. p. 274. 



Spec Chak. Whole plant white with woolly down : stem suf- 

 fruticose at the base, ascendent, erect, somewhat simple : loWer 

 •leaves oval-oblong, attenuated at the base, upper ones linear or 

 lanceolate, adnate, acute ; lower flowering branchlets axillarj^, 

 shorter than thB leaf^ bearing a small corymb at the apex, upper 

 tjnes longer, bearing a foil composite corymb : involucral scales 

 oblong or oval, obtuse, white-coloured, inner ones longer. 



PundliB, Silhet. 



GENUS LVni. CARPESIUM. 

 Syn. Pol. ^qnallsi Sex: Systt 



Deriv. From Carpesion, a bit of straw ; alluding to the appear* 

 Jance of the involucii-al leaves. 



Gen. Char. Capitula heterogamous, discoid, marginal florets 



.iemale, several series, disk ones hermaphrodite : anthers caudate : 



^achsenia oblong, compressed, rostrate : beak beset with viscid glands : 



pappus none. — Herbaceous erect plants With alternate leaves : ca-« 



pitula solitary on the ends of the branches : involucrum many^ 



oeriesj imbricate, outer ones somewhat leafy : flowers yellow. 



