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guste pinnatifida, longiora 3-4 poll. longa, precipue subtus floccoso- 
araneosa ; caulina non decurrentia, segmentis distantibus, angustis, apice 
aculeatis. Capitula subsessilia, ovata, absque spinis circiter 6 lineas 
diametro, pleiantha; involucri bractese numerosissim:, maximam par- 
tem squarrose, inferne araneose, anguste subulato-spinose, arcuato- 
recurve, spinis longioribus 6 lineas longis, intim erectz, omnino sca- 
riose, lanceolate, acute acuminate, margine ciliolatz ; receptaculum 
convexum, setis levibus. Flores citrini, involucro breviores; filamenta 
glabra. Achenia obovato-oblonga, 14-2 lineas longa, compressa, leviter 
costata, maculosa; pappi setz breves. 
Near Ali-khél, in fields, at 7000 feet; flowers yellow. 
Equal to no. 775 Griffith's Journal, and 3268 Kew distribution, 
Afghanistan. 
372, 383,=921 (1879). Cousinia auriculata, Boiss. ? 
Hariáb distriet, on the spurs of Mount Síka-rám, at an altitude 
of from 10,000 to 14,000 feet. 
My specimens are much inore woolly, with larger and hand- 
somer flower-heads than the type ; but the achenes are identical. 
10, 381,2: 362, 504, 1233 (1879). C. buphthalmoides, Regel (descrip 
amplif). Herba biennis?, radice tuberosa, caulibus 3-18 poll. altis, 
ramis divaricatis, sepius l-cephalis. Folia radicalia subsessilia, lyrato- 
pinnatifida, circiter semipedalia, subtus albo-araneoso-tomentosa, supra 
parce araneosa, marginibus aculeolata, lobis lateralibus utrinque 4-6, 
parvis, ovato-oblongis, terminali magno (usque ad 3 poll. longo et 
24 poll. lato) ovato-deltoideo.— Regel et Herder, Pl. Semenov. Contin. iii. 
p. 93.—C. auriculata, Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 360, non Boiss. 
Kuram and Hariáb districts, from the shingle-plains of Kuram, 
through the pine-forests to the Hariáb, at an altitude of from 
4000 to 9000 feet. 
It has a curious radish-shaped root; and when the flower- 
heads have fully come to maturity, the plant is so altered in ap- 
pearance that one can scarcely believe the two stages of growth 
belong to the same species. 
Griffith's Journal nos. 793, 794, 795, 798, 991, 996, and Kew 
distribution nos. 3269, 3270, 3271, Afghanistan, belong to this 
species. 
371. C. pinarocephala, Boiss. (fide Boiss.). 
In the Hariáb district, at the base of Mount Síka-rám, from 
9000 to 12,000 feet, profuse. 
358,—922 (1879). C. ($ Alpina) carthamoides, Aitchison $ Hemsley, 
n.sp. (Plate XVII. figs. 1-7.) Fere omnino glabra, caulibus erectis gra- 
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