71. COMPOSITE : INTILOIDEJB. 423 



solitaria vel 2-4 aggregata, subterminalia, 3-4 lineas diametro, 

 pedunculis insigniter bialatis ; involucri bracteae pluriseriatae, 

 subscariosae, exteriores latissimae, vix acutae, interiores angustiores, 

 acutae. Flores dimorphi, exteriores filiformi, feminei, interiores 

 hermapbroditi, antheris caudatis. Achamia (matura non visa) 

 puberula ; pappi seta3 numerosae, corolla aequales vel paullo brevi- 

 ores, tenues, molles. 



Kwangtung: Pakhoi {Play fair !) . Herb. Kew. 



There is no doubt respecting the affinities of this very distinct 

 species, but the achenes are so very young that the genus 

 cannot be determined with certainty. In habit and quite 

 herbaceous character it differs from all the other species of 

 Pluchea. It resembles Fpaltes australis in habit and foliage. 



1. Epaltes australis, Less, in Linncea, v. p. 148 ; DC. Prodr. 

 v. p. 462 ; Benth. PI. Austr. iii. p. 530. 



Sphaeromorphsea petiolaris, DC. Prodr. vi. p. 140. 



Foemosa: Tamsui (Oldham, 288!) ; Kwangttjng: Pakhoi 

 (Play/air !). Herb. Kew. 



Eastern Australia. 



1. Sphaeranthus africaims, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2, p. 1314; Hook.f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 275. 



Sphseranthus microcephalus, Willd. Sp. PL iii. p. 2395 ; DC. Prodr. v. 

 p. 369. 



Sphaeranthus cochinchinensis, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 510 ; DC. Prodr. 

 v. p. 371? 



China: without locality (Staunton !) ; Kwangtung: "Wham- 

 poa (Hance, 1924 !) . Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



[Sphceranthus chinensis, Linn. (Mant. i. p. 119), is recorded as 

 a native of India only.] 



1. Leontopodium alpinum, Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxv. p. 474; 

 DC. Prodr. vi. p. 275 ; Hook, f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 279 ; 

 Maxim, in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1879, p. 28; Beichb. Fl. 

 Germ. t. 947 ; Kanitz, Bot. Res. Szech. Centr. As. Fxped. p. 8. 



Chihli : Pohuashan (Bullock !), Siaowutaishan (Hancock ex 

 Maximowicz) ; Kanstjh (ex Kanitz). Herb. Kew. 



Alps of Europe and Central Asia and the Himalaya Mountains, 

 where it ascends to nearly 18,000 feet. 



