300 LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pulicaria. 
scabrid hairs. Achenes short, terete, pericarp crustaceous.—A very distinct 
group in respect of both pappus and achenes. 
8. P. glaucescens, Jaub. $ Spach. Ill. Pl. Orient. t. 349; dwarf, 
shrubby, glabrous or sparsely hairy above, leaves fleshy elongate linear or dilated 
apwards: margins flat or involute quite entire, heads 4 in. diam. shortly peduncled, 
invol. bracts glabrous lanceolate acute rigid, ligules 0, pappus white or yellowish 
much longer than the short oblong silky achenes. Clarke Comp. Ind. 130. 
Platychete glaucescens, Boiss.; Fl. Orient. iii. 209. 
The Doan, Sarr Rance and Marri, Fleming. Wozvuristan, Stewart,—D1s- 
TRIB. Beluchistan, Persia. 
A small saline succulent-leaved shrub, with pale woody stem and branches. Leaves 
1-23 in., tips usually recurved. Heads shining from the copious pale straw-coloured 
pappus. The outer pappus is eontinuous with the pubescence of the very short 
achenes, 
9. P. Boissieri, Hook. f.; dwarf, shrubby, villous with long white hairs, 
leaves fleshy spathulate or elongate-spathulate qu entire or sparsely toothed 
flat or complicate, heads à in. diam. shortly peduncled, invol. bracts lanceolate 
acute rigid puberulous, ligules 0, pappus white or yellowish much longer than 
the short oblong silky achenes, Platychete villosa, Boiss.; Fl. Orient. iii. 
208. 
Scmp, Stocks. 
Habit and heads of P. glaucescens, but softly villous, and the leaves are not more 
than 3-1 in. long. Boissier describes the invol. bracts as very obtuse, but they are 
quite acute in our specimens, 
10. P. Stocksii, Hook. f.; dwarf, shrubby, pubescent, leaves short 
spathulate very fleshy quite entire flat or concave above, heads subsessile } in, 
iam., invol. bracts rigid lanceolate puberulous outer obtuse inner acute, ligules 
0, pappus white much longer than the short oblong silky achenes. 
Scrnp, Stocks. 
A much shorter and more robust plant than P. Boissieri or glaucescens, blackish 
when dry, with leaves 1—3 in. long, not recurved at the tips. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
P. Saxxrana, Klatt. Compos. Sohlagintw. 87. The description of this answers to 
any of the above described species of Platychete. 
48. CARPESIUM, Linn. 
Erect branched herbs. eaves alternate. Heads terminal or axillary, sessile 
or peduncled, usually drooping, heterogamous, disciform, yellow; outer fl. 9, 
oo -seriate, fertile, slender, 3—5-toothed ; disk-fl. 5, fertile, slender, limb slightly 
dilated 5-toothed.  Znvoluere hemispheric or subglobose; bracts in few series, 
inner broad obtuse dry, outer with herbaceous or foliaceous tips; receptacle flat, 
naked. Anther-bases sagittate, tails slender. Style-arms linear, obtuse, connivent 
till late. -Achenes elongate, striate with an (often glandular) beak surmounted 
by a corona; pappus 0.— DrsrRIB. Species 4-5, S. European and temperate and 
subtropical Asiatic. 
l. C. cernuum, Zinn. ; pubescent, leaves shortly petioled elliptic-lanceo- 
late obtuse sinuate-toothed, heads terminal drooping with broad leafy bracts, 
outer invol. bracts leafy spreading. Clarke Comp. Ind. 130. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA and the Kuasia and NirgHerry Mrs,—Distris. From the 
Caucasus to France, Java, Japan. 
