Tas. 6530. 
ERIGHRON MULTIRADIATUS. 
Native of the Himalaya Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. Composirz.—Tribe AsTEROIDER. 
Genus Ericeron, Linn; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 279.) 
ErtaEron (Phenactis) mulétiradiatus; pubescens v. hirsutus, caule simplici v. 
* parce ramoso gracili v. robusto szepius monocephalo, foliis radicalibus nullis v. 
longe petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis v. oblanceolatis obtusis acutisve in petiolum 
decurrentibus integris v. paucidentatis, caulinis brevibus patentibus basi lata 
amplexicauli sessilibus ovato-lanceolatis acutis v. acuminatis, capitulis magnis 
2-25 poll. diam., involucri late campanulati bracteis lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis 
pubescentibus et ciliatis, floribus glabris, ligulis numerosissimis 2-3 serialibus 
involucro duplo longioribus angustis purpureis, acheniis oblongis subsericeis, 
p2ppi setis paucis scabridis externis brevissimis, 
E. multiradiatus, Benth. in Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 280 (sub Sect. Phenactis); Clarke 
Compos. Ind. 56. : 
Aster multiradiatus, Wall. Cat. 2969. 
A. innloides, Don Prodr. Fl. Nip. p. 178. 
Diplopappus Roylei, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 276? 
- Stenactis multiradiatus, Lindl. in DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 299. 
One of the most beautiful of the alpine Himalayan Com- 
positee, but very variable and difficult to distinguish from 
form of neighbouring species, especially of HM. alpinus, to 
which small states of it approach very closely. HH. multi- 
radiatus is, however, in its normal state a much larger and 
handsomer plant, with the heads usually at least two inches 
in diameter, and of a fine bright purple colour. In rich 
moist soil old plants grow two feet high and branch very 
considerably, and the radical leaves disappear early, giving 
the plant a very different appearance from that of its younger 
state, in which the habit is scapigerous, and the radical 
leaves copious. . 
H. multiradiatus is a native of grassy wet pastures along 
thewhole length of the Himalayan range, from Kashmir, where 
it inhabits elevations of 7000 to 9000 feet, to Sikkim, where 
DECEMBER Isr, 1880. 
