Gnaphalium.] composite, 461 



dilated and 5-toothed. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; bracts many- 

 seriate, all scaiious or with a white yellow or brown more or less 

 scarious blade. Receptacle naked or pitted. Anther-bases sagittate 

 and with slender tails. Style-arms of herm. flowers truncate or 

 capitate. Achenes oblong or obovoid, not ribbed. Pappus-hairs 

 1-seriate, slender or thickened at the tip, caducous, connate at the 

 base or not. Species about 100, cosmopolitan. 

 Heads in corymbose leafless clusters . . 1. 6f. luteo-alhum. 

 Heads in leafy spikes. 

 Pappus hairs not coherent at the base . 2. 6r. indicum. 

 Pappus hairs coherent at the base . . 3. (?. purpureum,. 

 Heads in rounded leafy axillary or terminal 

 clusters 4. G. pulvinatum, 



1. G. luteo-album, Linn. Sp. PI. 851 ; F. B. I. Hi, 288 ; Watt E. D.; 

 Collett Fl. Siml. 257 ; Coolce Fl. Bomb, ii, 30. G- orixense and G. albo- 

 luteum, Boxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 425. 



A very variable more or less woolly annual, 4-18 in. high. Stems simple 

 or corymbosely branched above. Leaves sessile, 1-2 in. long, rarely more 

 than i in. broad, oblong-spathulate, obtuse, usually woolly on both 

 surfaces ;, upper lanceolate, acute, i-amplexicaul. Heads leafless, 

 whitish-yellow or brownish, arranged in dense corymbose glistening 

 clusters. Invol-hracts oblong, obtuse, hyaline except near the base. 

 Achenes papillose. Pappus shorter than the involucre. 



The European type with pale straw-coloured heads has not been found 

 east of Afghanistan. The two following varieties occur, however, 

 abundantly within the area of this flora. 



V AB. 1. multiceps, Wall, (sp.) Heads golden-yellow. Sub-Himalayan 

 tracts from the Jumna eastwards, and in the hilly parts of Merwara 

 and Bundelkhand. Disteib. Himalaya up to 10,000 ft., Mt, Abu in 

 Kajputana, Upper Burma, Tenasserim extending to China and Japan. 



Vab. 2. pallidum, Buch.-Ram. (sp.) Heads pale-brown. Common within 

 the area and throughout India, extending to China and Japan and to 

 most hot and warm temperate countries. 



2. G. indicum, Linn. 8p. PI. 852; Boyle III. 248; F.B. I. Hi, 289 ; 

 Cooke, Fl. Bomb, ii, 30. G. striatum and multicaule, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. Hi 

 424, 425. 



A slender weed, more or less clothed with white wool. Stems 6-12 in. 

 high, many from the root, ascending, leafy. Leaves |-li in. long, linear- 

 obovate or spathulate, apiculate, usually woolly on both surfaces ; lower 

 leaves shortly petioled.^ Heads^ ^ in. in diam., in simple or branched 

 ieafy spikes or crowded into ovoid clusters. InvoUhracts linear-oblong, 

 acute, pale reddish-brown or straw-coloured, the inner nearly glabrous! 

 Achenes minutely papillose. Pappus-hairs not coherent at the base. 



