Solidago.] LXXVII. coMPosrpE. (J. D. Hooker.) 245 
flattened, tips lanceolate. -Achenes subterete or angled, 8-12-ribbed ; pappus- 
hairs 1-2-seriate, slender, scabrid.—DrsrRIm. Species about 80, chiefly N. 
American, one of them cosmopolitan in the N. temp. regions. 
l. S. Virga-aurea, Linn.; DC. Prodr. v. 338 ; glabrous or pubescent, 
stems erect stout subsimple 6-24 in., lower leaves petioled ovate or oblong sub- 
serrate, upper smaller narrower entire, heads 1-4 on short axillary peduncles 
collected in a long leafy panicle, invol. bracts narrow acute, ray-fl. about 8, 
achenes glabrous or puberulous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 35. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir eastwards, alt. 5-9000 ft. Kuasta Mrs., 
alt. 4.6000 ft.—Disrnre. Europe, Temp. Asia and America, Hongkong. 
Var. 1. leiocarpa, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 179; var. glabriuscula, Clarke 1. c., glabrous 
or nearly so, achenes glabrous.— Kashmir to Nepal.—Amphiraphis leioearpa, Benth. 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 488. 
Var, 2. pubescens, Clarke l. c.; pubescent, achenes puberulous, at least when 
young. S. pubescens, Wall. Cat. 3226. S. nepalensis, Don Prodr. 177. Amphiraphis 
pubescens, DC. Prodr. v. 343.—Nipal to Khasia Mts. 
12. DICHROCEPHALA, DC. 
Annuals. Leaves alternate, toothed, lyrate or pinnatifid. Meads very small, 
panicled, heterogamous, globose or hemispheric, not rayed ; outer fl. oc-seriate, 
9 , fertile, slender, rigid, 2-3-toothed or cleft; disk-fl. 5, fertile, narrow, 4—5- 
toothed. Anther-bases truncate. Style-arms of Y short, flattened, tips lanceo- 
late. -Achenes compressed ; pappus 0, or in Ẹ of 2 minute bristles.—DisrRini 
Species 5, Asiatic and African. 
* Receptacle much elevated. 
l. D. latifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 11; Prodr. v. 872; annual, erect 
or spreading, glabrous pubescent or villous, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate 
entire pinnatifid or lyrate, terminal lobe broadly ovate coarsely toothed, heads 
4 in. diam. globose, ray-fl. filiform curved obscurely toothed. Dalz. § Gibs. 
Bomb, Fl. 124; Wight Ic. t. 1096; Clarke Comp. Ind. 36. D. gracilis and 
sonchifolia, DC. l. c. 371, 372. D. nilagirensis, Schultz-Bip. in Pl. Hohenach. 
n. 1035. Cotula sinapifolia, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 63; Fl. Ind. ii. 497 ; Wall. 
Cat. 3237 excl. D. C. bicolor, Roth Cat. Bot. ii. 116. C. latifolia, Pers. Syn. 
ii. 404. Grangea latifolia, Lamk. Ill. t. 699. Hippia bicolor, Smith in Rees 
Cyclop. xviii, Ethulia integrifolia, Don Prodr. 182. 
Tropica, and Sustropican HIMALAYA; from Simlh, alt. 9000 ft. to Sikkim, 
ascending to 8000 ft. Kuasta Mrs., Cacnar, Biema. and the Marav PENINSULA. 
Western PENINSULA; on the Ghats from Bombay southwards.—Disrris. Tropical 
and subtropical Asia and Africa. 
A weed 12-24 in. high. Leaves very variable. Heads on slender divaricating 
peduncles, yellow or purplish. Corolla of the. 9 very slender, sometimes green and 
persistent. Achenes A, in., smooth. 
2. D. chrysanthemifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 11; Prodr. v. 372 ; 
erect, stiff, pubescent or hispid, branches divaricate, leaves oblong or obovate 
coarsely serrate or pinnatifid, heads long-peduneled }—} in. diam. globose or 
oblong, ray-fl. short 4-fid. Wight Ic. t. 1095; Clarke Comp. Ind. 36. D. 
oblongata, Bth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 960. D. tanacetoides, Schultz Bip. o. Mig. FL. 
Ind. Bat. ii. 388. D. grangewfolia, DC. l. c. 372. 
Western HiwALAYA, Royle; Simla, alt. 6-7000 ft., Edgeworth, Thomson. Nir- 
cHERRY Mrs., alt, 7000 ft., Wight, &e.— DisTRIB. Java, Trop. Africa. 
Different in habit from D. latifolia, being very rigid, often hoary, with smaller 
leaves and larger heads on peduncles often 2 in. long. Heads purple. Corolla of 
ray-fl. shortly funnel-shaped, deeply 3—5-cleft. 
