460 COMPOSITE. [InoGA. 



F. sermanica, Linn. Bp. PI. Add. ed. II, 1311; F. B, I. Hi, 277; 



Collett Fl. Siml. 254. F. spathulata, Presl, var. prostrata, ParL (sp. 

 Onaplialiuin hardwaricnm, Wall. Cat. 2951, 



An erect or prostrate woolly annual. Stem 2-6 in., long, simple or 

 dichotomonsly branched from the base. Leaves sessile or petioled ; 

 about i in. long, obovate-oblong, apiculate. Clusters of heads sessile it 

 the forks of the branches, g-^ in., in diam, surrounded by leaf-like 

 bracts. Hea,ds 6-20, f in. long, yellowish, glistening, Invol'hracts erect 

 in fruit, acuminate, scarious, outer awned. Corolla of outer florets 

 very slender. J cTiewes rough. 



Dehra Dun and Sub-Himalayan tracts of Eohilkhand. Disteib. 

 Westwards through the plains of N. Punjab and the N. W. Frontier 

 districts to Afghanistan and the Canary Islands, ascending to 8,000 ft. 

 in Kashmir and W. Tibet. 



17. IFLOGA, Cass. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 277. 



Herbs or small shrubs. Leaves alternate, small or slender, often 

 clustered. Heads small, solitary or clustered, sessile, forming leafy 

 spikes, heterogamous, disciform. Outer-flowers female, 1-many- 

 seriate, fertile, very slender, obscurely toothed. Disk-Jlowers her- 

 maphrodite, sterile, limb 5-toothed. Invol-hracts few. Receptacle 

 cylindric below or slightly elevated ; top flat, naked, with an outer 

 ring of scarious pales as long as the bracts. Anther-hases sagittate, 

 tails very slender. Achenes glabrous, of fern, flowers small, oblong. 

 Tap^ius ; of herm. flowers scanty, 1-seriate, feathery. — Species S, 

 one in India, the rest in N. Africa. 



I. Fontanesii, Cass: in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxiii, M; F. B. I. iii, 277. 



A woolly or glabrate annual, branched from the base. Branches 4-6 in. 

 long, ascending, densely leafy. Leaves spreading, narrowly linear, 

 acute, margins involute. Clusters of heads ^ in. long, sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves throughout the length of the branches, reddish, 

 glistening, glabrous. Invol-hracts, scarious, aristate. Achenes oblong, 

 smooth. Pappus reddish. 



Sub-Himalayan tract from Moradabad westwards. Flowers in Feb. 

 DisTBiB. Punjab Plain and westward through Afghanistan to the 

 Canaries. 



18. GNAPHALIUM, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 288. 



Hoary or woolly herbs. Leaves alternate, quite entire. Heads 



-small, in terminal or axillary corymbs or fascicles, heterogamous, 



disciform. Flowers all fertile ; outer female, 2-many -seriate, filiform, 



.3-4-toothed ; those of the disk hermaphrodite, fewer, slender, limb 



