218 LXXVI DIPSACEE. (C. B. Clarke.) [ Dipsacus. 
646. D. inermis, Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. Carey & Wail. i. 367, as to var. a 
only; Wall. Cat. 427, partly. D. auriculatus, Royle IU. 245. 
Nortu-West HrwALAYA, alt. 7000 ft., from Chumba to Kumaon. 
_ Stem often 6-10 ft, and then with 3-1 heads only.—Probably a var. of D. 
inermis. 
3. D. asper, Wall. Cat. 428; lower leaves pinnatifid with distant seg- 
ments shortly pilose on both surfaces and scabrous beneath, heads subglobose, 
bracteoles obovate-oblong shortly mucronate, corolla white. DC. Prodr. iv. 
646, 
Kuasia Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft.; common. 
Closely resembling D. inermis ` the leaves are more hairy above, and on the nerves 
beneath nearly bristly. 
4. D. atratus, H. f. $ T. ms.; leaves pinnatifid or the upper trifid hairy 
on both surfaces, heads subglobose, bracteoles obovate-oblong with a lanceolate 
very hairy mucro, corolla intense blue-black. 
Dep HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft. ; Yeumtong and Lachen, J. D. H., Elwes. 
Closely allied to D. inermis. Stem villous, as well as bristly. Leaves with larger 
hairs than D. inermis. Bracts ovate or oblong, obtuse; braeteoles blackish. Corolla 
only slightly pilose without. 
5. D. Leschenaultii, Coult.; DC. Prodr. iv. 647; leaves pinnatifid 
lowest elongate with numerous approximate upper segments hairy on both sur- 
faces, heads subglobose, bracteoles obovate-oblong with long-lanceolate densely 
hairy mueros, flowers white. Wight. Ill. t. 130; W.& A. Prodr. 445. Scabiosa 
Brunoniana, Wall. Cat. 429. 
Mrs. of the Soutu Deccan, alt. 7-8000 ft.; Neilgherries and Pulneys, frequent. 
Lowest leaves often a foot or more by 3 in.; terminal lobe oblong, with numerous 
approximate faleate-oblong lobes next to it, with longish hairs on both surfaces ; 
otherwise undistinguishable from D. inermis. 
6. D. Walkeri, Arn. Puyill. Pl. Ind. Or. 26; bracteoles obovate-oblong 
with short-lanceolate sparsely hairy mucros, otherwise as D. Leschenaultii. 
Wight. Ie. t. 1166. D. Leschenaultii, Thwaites Enum. 160. 
Cryton, alt. 6-7000 ft. ; frequent. 
Dries blackish, while D. Leschenaultii dries green; the two are hardly distinet. 
4. SCA 'BIOSA, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs, never bristly nor prickly. Leaves opposite, un- 
divided, lobed or pinnatifid. Heads bracteate; bracteoles (scales of the recep- 
tacle) small or 0, or (in non-Indian species) herbaceous. Involucel 2-8-ribbed, 
adnate to the pericarp; limb generally expanded, broad funnel-shaped. Calyx- 
limb with short teeth and generally with long bristles. Corolla tubular; limb 
4-5-tid, equal or, especially in the ray flowers, obliquely expanded. Stamens 4, 
perfect. Style filiform; stigma capitate or subpeltate, sometimes sublateral. 
Achene crowned by the persistent scarious expanded limb of the involucel, and 
by the persistent, usually aristate, calyx-limb.—Disrris. Species 80, chietly 
European, West Asiatic, and African. 
Secr. I. P'rEROocEPHALUs. Bracteoles narrow.  Involucel-mouth short, 
ciliate, pubescent. — Calya-limb of 12-24 long bristles. Corolla 5-tid. 
l. S. Hookeri, C. B. Clarke; hairy, scapose, leaves linear-spathulate 
runcinate or subentire, corollas all subequal exceeding the calyx-bristles, 
