MS hide daba ge e 
Inula.] LXXVII. cowPosmpe. (J. D. Hooker) ` 293 
Alpine region of the Srxxim Himaraya, J. D. H. 
I have only a fragment of this remarkable species, the smooth soft stem is as 
thick as a goose-quill, smooth and shining, wings narrow membranous. Leaves, upper 
alone seen, 83-4 by 1 in. long.  Znvol. bracts herbaceous, % in. long, spreading in fruit; 
receptacle hemispherie; ligules 3 in., deeply 3-fid. Achenes } in. long; pappus 45 in. 
5. I. polygonata, DC. Prodr. vi. 465; stem stout winged and leaves 
beneath and corymb very densely woolly, leaves sessile oblong or oblong-lan- 
ceolate obtuse denticulate, heads 3 in. diam, in small corymbs immersed in thick 
wool, invol. bracts thick, outer oblong, inner narrow pungent, ray-fl. short 
tubular. Clarke Comp. Ind. 119. Conyza polygonata, Wall. Cat. 3010. 
Prau and Bina, on dry hills, Wallich, Maclelland, Kurz. 
Stems 1-2 ft., simple or branched above, very robust, leafy. Leaves 3-4 by $—11 
in. very coriaceous, glabrous or rough above, sessile but not auricled at the base. 
Heads hemispheric; invol. bracts } in., outer obtuse rigid, inner quite pungent. 
Achenes +; in., silky ; pappus-hairs ¢ in., white, rather flattened. 
6. I. nervosa, Wall. Cat. 2960; DC. Prodr. v. 471; perennial, pubes- 
cent hirsute or villous and glandular, stem simple or eeh erect flexuous, 
leaves sessile or subsessile elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute at both ends 
subdentate scaberulous or scabrid above, nerves subparallel with the margin, 
heads 4-1 in. solitary or corymbose peduncled, ligules white, invol. bracts linear- 
lanceolate acute hirsute erect or recurved, outermost foliaceous or not, achenes 
silky. Clarke Comp. Ind. excl. syn. Roxb. I. asperrima and nitida, Edgew. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 68, 69, I. verrucosa, Klatt in Sitzungb. Münch. Akad. 
1875, 86. i 
TEMPERATE HiMALAYA; alt. 4-7000 ft., from Garwhal to Bhotan. Kuasia Mrs. ; 
alt. 83-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. f 
Stem 1-3 ft., strict or flexuous. Leaves 2-4 by 7-14 in., usually membranous, 
teeth remote. Heads very variable in size, and especially in the invol. bracts, which 
are green and either appressed or squarrose, the outermost are narrow recurved and 
usually leafy; ligules rather broad, shorter than the breadth of the head. Achenes 
i5 in.; pappus dirty-white. 
Var. purpurascens; invol. bracts narrow linear-lanceolate finely acuminate 
straight purple glabrescent.—Khasia Mts., Lobb, Clarke. The bracts differ much from 
the Khasian specimens gathered by Griffith, or from the Himalayan, but they are 
always very variable in this species and its allies. 
7. I. Simonsii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 121; hirsute with yellow glandular 
hairs, leaves subsessile oblong acute base rounded denticulate rigid hirsute on 
both surfaces, heads long-peduncled, invol. bracts lanceolate outer shorter 
hirsute, ligules long white, achenes narrowly oblong silky, pappus white. 
Assam (Bhotan ?), Dr. Simons. Buoran, Nuttall. 
I have seen no specimens of this species, which its author describes as being very 
near J. nervosa, but differing in the larger heads and leaves rounded at the base. 
8. X. obtusifolia, Kerner Nov. Sp. Pl. Jaeschke, 18; stems many from a 
woody stock short erect rigid and leaves beneath scabrid or hairy, leaves sessile 
oblong or ovate-oblong obtuse or acute base rounded, heads 1 or few 3-1} in. 
diam., inner invol. bracts linear or linear-lanceolate acute rigid pubescent outer- 
most leafy, achenes slender silky. I. oculus Christi, var. and I. Thomsoni, 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 120. 
Western TrBET and Kvumaon; alt. 10-14000 ft., Thomson, Jaeschke.—Di1sTR1B. 
Kashgar. 
|. Stems 6-12 in., often rigidly flexuous, leafy to the top. Leaves 1}-2 in., rigid, 
often scaberulous above, obscurely denticulate, nerves reticulated beneath. Heads 
very variable in size, hemispheric, outer leafy ; invol. bracts 1-2, small or large, inner 
