76 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
Echinops echinatus, Roxb., var.? vel species nova, caulibus 
albo-araneosis, foliorum spinis multo brevioribus, capitulis 
inermis, achzniis fere glabris. 
Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Most likely specifically distinct from E. echinatus, Roxb., but 
as there is only one imperfect inflorescence we prefer not giving 
it a name. 
Saussurea affinis, Spreng.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 373.—Shan 
hills at 5000 feet. 
Eastern India to China and Japan, and in Eastern Australia. 
Saussurea phyllocephala, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba erecta, robusta, 8-9 ped. alta, omnino ferrugineo- vel 
albido-pubescens, hispidula. Folia (superiora capitulos sub- 
tendentia tantum adsunt) crassiuscula, sessilia, semiamplexi- 
caulia (auriculis liberis), pinnatifida, 14-3 poll. longa. Capitula 
anguste subracemoso-paniculata, lateralia breviter pedunculata, 
quasiterminalia, pedunculis longioribus, 9-18 lineas diametro 
(bene evoluta non visa) : involucri bracteæ pluriseriatæ, subæqui- 
longæ, flores superantes (?), extimæ (vel folia suprema) foliace®, 
oblongæ, breviter aculeato-denticulate, cæteræ lineares, rigidæ, 
minute puberule, sursum attenuate, plumose; receptaculum 
leviter convexum, paleis angustis dense instructum. Flores 
numerosissimi, glabri; staminum filamenta libera, glabra; anthe- 
rarum caud:e longissimæ, fere integre. Achenia juvenilia com- 
pressa; pappi sete usque ad basin longe plumosæ. 
Shan hilis at 5000 feet. 
The foliaceous outer involueral bracts, something in the way 
of Carthamus, sufficiently characterize this species. It is 
possible, however, that this character is not a constant one, 
and that we have here an abnormal condition of our S. de- 
albata. 
Saussurea dealbata, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba erecta, robusta, 6-7 ped. alta, caulibus puberulis striatis 
vel fere suleatis cavis infra inflorescentiam simplicibus ? Folia 
eaulina papyracea, sessilia, semiamplexicaulia, basi auriculata 
(aurieulis liberis), oblonga, pinnatifida vel subpinnatifida (lobis 
