~ Syn. Gnaphalium semidecurrens, Wail, Cat, No. 2947,—G,
Subdecurrens, Aight’s Contrib, p. 21,


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Spec. Cuar. Stem herbaceous, erect, whitish-tomentose: leaves
inear, acuminated, mucronulate, 1-nerved, cobweb-like above; to-
mentose below, shortly decumbent at the base: corymb composite :
involucral scales pure white, sub-obtuse.
Dindigul hills.
(3) A. contortA. (Don.)


Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 271.—Don. prod. fi. Nep. p. 175.
Syn. Gnaphalium simplicicaule, .Wall, Cat. No. 8946.—G,
contortum, Spreng. Syst. IIL. p. 499.
Engrav. Don. in Bot. Reg. t. 605.
Spec. Cuar. Stem suffruticose, branched, erect: leaves liriear;
mucronate, sessile, younger ones tomentose, incurved, revolute at
the margin, adult ones twisted: capitula aggregated in somewhat
capitate simple or composite corymbs: involucral scales oblong;
stightly obtuse.
Pundua, Silhet.
GENUS LVII. ANAPHALIS.
Syn. Pol. Superflua: Sex: Syst:


Deriv. The name of a plant classed by the ancient Greeks next
to Gnaphalium.
Gen. Caan. Capitula heterogamous, discoid; matginal flotets
few or many-series, female, disk ones hermaphrodite, sterile, 5-
toothed: styles of the marginal florets long-exserted, bifid, of the
disk undivided: achznia glabrous, sessile; beakless : pappus 1+
series, uniform, bristles rough.—Herbaceous or suffruticose, woolly
or tomentose plants: stems sometimes 1-headed, oftener many~
headed, corymbose: involucral scales niveo-scariose, lanceolate,
several-series, the middle ones with a brownish claw: receptacle
convex, alveolate.
(1) A. Nemenerryana. ( Dec.)


Ident. Dec, prod. VI. p. 272,—-Wight’s Contrib. p. 21.
Syn. Gnaphalium Neilgherryanum, R. W.
_ Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 478.
Spec. Cuar. Stem suffruticose, many-headed, low: flowering
branches erect, tomentose: lower leaves very densely clustered, ime
bricated backwards, linear, subobtuse, lower ones glabrous, upper-
most ones as far as the flowering branches erect, tomentose, acute,
somewhat distant: capitula closely clustered in a terminal corymb :
involucral scales oblong-linear, subacute, longer: than the disk,
white-coloured. :


Neilgherries,.
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