71. COMPOSITE : ctnaeotde^:. 465 



Saussurea intermedia, Turcz. Dec. PI. Nov. Chin. Bor. n. 15. 



Saussurea. alata, DC. in Ann. Mus. Par. xvi. p. 202, t. 8, et in Prodr. vi. 

 p. 537. 



Saussurea (Aplotaxis) chinensis, Schultz-Bip. in Flora, 1852, p. 48, 

 absque descriptione. 



Chihli: neighbourhood of Peking (David, 2420! JBret- 

 sehneider !) ; Shingking : Moukden and other localities (Moss I 

 Webster !) ; Kiangsu : Shanghai (Maingay ! Carles !) ; Fokien : 

 Amoy (Fortune, 19! Hance, 834 !) ; Hupeh : Ichang, Patung, 

 and Nanto (A. Henry !) ; Kwangtung : Macao and Canton 

 (Gaudichaud I) ; Hongkong (Champion ! Urquhartl Wright I); 

 Cobea : Chemulpo (Carles !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Dahuria to Japan. 



11. Saussurea Katochaete, Maxim, in Mel. Biol. xi. p. 251. 

 Kanstth : in alpine meadows along the river Tetung (Przewalshi 



ex Maximowicz). 



12. Saussurea lamprocarpa, Hemsl, n. sp. 



Rerba perennis ?, ramosa (S. hypoleucce India? orientalis valde 

 affinis), caulibus robustis crassiusculis sulcatis vel profunde 

 striatis primum araneosis. Folia (caulina tantum adsunt) pe- 

 tiolata, vel suprema [minora sessilia, papyracea, cordato-oblonga, 

 cordato-ovata, vel cordato-deltoidea (suprema lanceolata utrinque 

 attenuata), absque petiolo usque ad 5 poll, longa, irregulariter 

 calloso-dentata (inferiora simul sublobata), minute calloso-apicu- 

 lata, basi cordata vel cuneata, discoloria, subtus incana, supra 

 puberula, venis primariis paucis sat conspicuis ; petiolus crassus, 

 usque ad 2 poll, longus. Capitula pauca, maxima (saltern 2£ poll, 

 diametro), longe pedunculata, pedunculis fere nudis ; involucri 

 hracteae plus minusve araneoso-tonientosae, multiseriatae, angustae, 

 elongatae, acutissimae, integral, vel apicem versus paucidenticulatae, 

 sed vix explanata3 ; receptaculum alte convexum, densissime pa- 

 leaceum, paleis angustissimis fere setaceis quam acha3nia longi- 

 oribus. Corollce circiter 9 lineas longa?, tubo fere filiformi supra 

 medium subite leviter expanso, lobis longis linearibus ; antherae 

 caudse longissimse, angustissimaa, plus minusve fissse. Achamia 

 ni gra, nitida, rugosa, subtetragona, areola parva leviter obliqua; 

 Pappus exterior ad cupulam brevem rigide denticulatam reductus, 

 interior uniseriatus, albidus, longe plumosus, corolla brevior. 



Hupeh : Patung district, Nanto and mountains to the north- 

 ward (A. Renry, 2470, 2675, 4972 !). Herb. Kew. 



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