Aster.] LXXVIII. composit#. (J. D. Hooker.) 253 
2967 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 48. Diplopappus asperulus and Amphiraphis pedun- 
cularis, DC. Prodr. v. 277, 344. 
Western Himacaya, alt. 4-9000 ft., from Chumba to Kumaon. 
Very similar in habit and hairiness to 4. Thomsoni, but readily distinguished by 
the (usually winged) petioles and pappus. ‘The heads vary greatly in size, from 3-14 
in., and the invol. bracts from short narrowly linear with scarious edges, to nearly 
1 by } in., green and leafy, and the pappus from white to red. 
14. A. Laka, Clarke Comp. Ind. 49; stems short stout simple from a 
woody tomentose rootstock, leaves with broad sheath-like petioles, ovate or 
cordate acute coarsely toothed, heads large solitary on stout peduncles, invol. 
bracts very large ovate obtuse leafy, achenes hairy, pappus hairs white or red- 
dish equalling the corolla. 
Wesrern HiMALAYA; at Laka, near Dhurmsala, alt. 10-11,000 ft., Edgeworth ; 
Clarke. 
A remarkable species, evidently allied to A. peduncularis, of which it has the 
flowers, achenes and pappus, but only 6-8 in. high, with simple stout ascending stems, 
broader leaves with sheath-like petioles, and very broad obtuse invol. bracts. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES, 
A. NITDULUS, DC. in Wight Contrib. 9; Prodr. 247; is founded on an American 
cultivated plant, probably A. levis, Willd. 
A. AUREUS, Don Prodr. 178, with a yellow ray, cannot bolong to the genus. 
21. BRACHYACTIS, Led. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate. Heads solitary, axillary or 
few in leafy panicles, heterogamous, rayed; ray-fl. 9, 1-w-seriate, fertile; 
ligule minute, bluish or rosy ; disk-fl. D, fertile, tubular, limb 5-cleft. —Znvol. 
bracts half as long as the flowers, 2-3-seriate, narrow, outer often leafy; rece 
tacle flat, naked or pitted. -Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of 
narrow, flattened, tips narrowly lanceolate. Achenes narrowly obovate, quite 
flat; pappus-hairs sub- 2-seriate, outer shorter.— DrsrRrs. Species 6, N. 
American, Central Asian, Siberian, and the Himalayan. 
l. B. menthodora, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. xii t. 1106; tall, erect, 
glandular-pubescent, root perennial, leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate serrate 
upper sessile j-amplexicaul, lower long-petioled, recept. not pitted, ligules 
longer than their styles. B. indica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 49. Erigeron anomalum, 
DC. Prodr. v. 293. 
ArrPINE Himaraya; Kashmir, Sind valley, alt. 12,000 ft., Clarke; Sikkim, alt. 
10 13,000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 
Stem stiff, 1-2 ft.; branches short, erect. Leaves 1-2 in., cauline decurrent. 
Heads 41-8 in. diam., chiefly towards the tips of the stem or branches; invol. bracts 
few, linear, pubescent, 1-2 outer often much larger and leafy; fl. pale blue. Achenes 
35 in., nearly glabrous, margins thickened ; pappus } in. reddish.— Whole plant smells 
like mint, but more sweetly. 
9. B. umbrosa, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1106; small, annual, 
glandular and villous, leafy, branched from the base, leaves obovate lobulate or 
cuneate narrowed into the petiole, ligules minute. B. wangtuensis, Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 61. Conyza umbrosa, Karel § Kiri. in Led. Fl. Ross, ii. 498. C. 
Roylei, DC. Prodr. v. 981. Vernonacea, Griff. Itin. Notes, 322, n. 1259, 
Western HiwALAYA and TisxT; from Kashmir to the Karakoram, alt. 8-12,000 
ft. ; Lahul, Jaeschke.— DrsrRIB. Alatau Mountains. Afghanistan. 
Branches 4-8 in., rarely more, ascending, leafy. Leaves A 3 in. Heads many, $ 
in. diam., often one in every leaf-axil, sessile or long-peduneled. Aehenes jy in., 
