Aster.] xxvi. composit#. (J. D. Hooker.) 251 
6. A. tibeticus, Hook. f.; pubescent or slightly villous, slender, erect, 
sparingly leafy, radical Je: petioled lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute 
quite entire, cauline sessi! near-oblong obtuse, heads solitary rarely 2-3, outer 
invol. bracts linear acute — 1bescent or villous, achenes glabrescent, pappus double 
white, outer hairs very fe w short subulate. 
Wesrern HiMALAYA and Trser, Jacquemont; Piti, Hanli Plains and Pangong 
Lake, alt. 15-16,000 ft., in salt grassy plains, Thomson, H. Strachey ; Laptal (N. of 
Kumaon), alt. 15,000 fü, Str. d Wint. (Diplopappus, No. 2.); Karakoram, alt. 
14-15,000 ft., Clarke. 
Perennial, 4-12 in. high. Leaves small, radical 1-2 in. including the petiole. 
Heads 1-2 in. diam. ; ligules very many, 3-3 in. long, bright blue. Achenes very 
small, flat, 3, in.; pappus 4 in., hairs few slender. 
7. A. diplostephioides, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 272; erect, robust, 
villous, stem simple leafy, leaves sessile erect lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate 
acute quite entire, lower narrowed at the base, heads solitary 3 in. diam., invol. 
bracts lanceolate leafy, outer often very long, ligules very long and narrow, 
achenes silky, pappus reddish, outer very short white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 45. 
Heterochæta diplostephioides, DC. Prodr. v. 282. Diplopappus diplostephioides, 
Herb, Ind. Or. Hf. $ T. in part. 
ArPINE HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, alt. 8600.11,500 ft., Falconer, &c. ; Wurdwan, Lance ; 
Kunawur, alt. 14,000 ft., Thomson ; Kumaon, alt. 13,000 ft., Str. d Wint. (Stenactis 
sp. 3); Sikkim, alt. 16,000 ft., J. D. H. i 
A very handsome species, 12-18 in. high. Leaves 2-3 in. Jnvol, bracts some- 
times 1 in. ; ligules very many. Achenes 4 in., and pappus no longer than in the 
preceding.—Thomson’s Kumaon specimens have broader leaves than the others; Fal- 
coners Kashmir ones are more leafy. Aitchison says the roots are used by the 
Kashmiris for washing clothes. 
Secr. III. Znrol. bracts in few or many series, narrow, dry or scarious, rarely 
herbaceous.—Heads small, corymbose or solitary. 
8. A. molliusculus, Wall. Cat. 2972; pubescent or sparsely villous, 
stems many erect or ascending from a woody rootstock leafy, leaves subsessile 
linear elliptic or obovate-oblong entire or toothed, heads long-peduncled solitary, 
invol. bracts linear-lanceolate acuminate, ligules very many short slender, 
achenes silky, pappus reddish, outer very short white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 45. 
? A. scaposus, Klatt in Sitz. Münch. Akad. 1878, 84. Diplopappus molliusculus, 
Lindl. in DC. Prodr. v. 277. Yersilia simplex, Klotzsch in Pr. Wald. Reis. 
Bot, 75, t. 73. 
Western HIMALAYA; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft. TIBET (N. of 
Kumaon), alt. 15,000, Str. d Wint. (Diplopappus, No. 3), and of Sikkim, J. D. H. 
Stems sometimes branched, 4-12 in., slender, rigid. Leaves 3-1 in., acute or 
obtuse, glabrous or seaberulous. Heads rarely 2—3, 1-$ in. diam.; ligules 20-380, 
revolute when dry. Achenes } in.; pappus rather longer.— Tibetan specimens are 
short, prostrate, with linear leaves and larger flowers. lt is difficult (if possible) to 
distinguish this from Erigeron multiradiatus. 
9. A. altaicus, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol, 881 ; rigid, scaberulous, stem 
grooved much branched leafy, leaves sessile linear or oblong obtuse quite entire, 
heads solitary subcorymbose, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate acuminate, achenes 
silky, pappus single reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 46 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 158. 
A. angustifolius, Lindl, in Royle Ill. 251, t. 58, f.1. A. spartioides, Clarke l. c. 
Callimeris altaica and canescens, Nees Aster. 228, 229; DC. Prodr. v. 258, 
259. Hersilea ramosa, Klotzsch in Pr. Wald. Reis, Bot. 75, t. 79. Galatella 
juncea, Lindl. in Royle Ill. 251, t. 58. 
Western HixALAYA; Lahul and Kashmir, alt. 9-13,000 ft, Jaeschke, &o.; 
