312 LXXVII, COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Achillea. 
A. millefolium, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. ii. 955; glabrous or 
pubescent, leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate 3-pinnatisect, heads corymbose 
ovoid shortly peduncled. DC. Prodr. vi. 24; Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1826 ; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 143. A. cuspidata, DC. Lc. 30; Wall. Cat. 3930. 
Western HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 6-9000 ft.—Disrrim. N. 
Asia, Europe, N. America, 
Root stoloniferous. Stem 4-14 ft, furrowed, leafy. Leaves 2-6 in., radical 
petioled, segments close-set acute. Heads many, } in. diam.; invol. bracts oblong, 
obtuse rigid; ligules many, orbicular, white pink or purple, reflexed. Achenes 
shining. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES, 
A. squarrosa, Ait.; DC. Prodr. vi. 33; Clarke Comp. Ind. 143 ; said to have been 
introduced into the Calcutta gardens, or Assam, is not a native of India. 
64. ANTHEMIS, Linn. 
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, deeply toothed or pinnatisect. 
Heads terminal, peduncled, rarely corymbose, heterogamous and radiate (very 
rarely disciform), ray-fl. 9, fertile sterile or neuter, l-seriate, tube terete or 
2-winged, ligule spreading ; disk-fl. 5, fertile, tube compressed or 2-winged, base 
usually 1-2-gibbous, limb 5-fid. — Involucre hemispheric; bracts co -seriate, ap- 
pressed, rigid, margins scarious, outer shorter; receptacle convex or elongate ; 
pales broad or narrow, rigid or hyaline, sometimes embracing the flowers, 
Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of Y with truncate penicillate tips. Achenes 
oblong, glabrous, 4-5-angled, 8-10-ribbed or many-striate, trnncate; pappus 0 
or very short, paleaceous or of a membranous large or small auricle.— DISTRIB. 
Species about 70, European, N. & W. Asian and N. African. 
l. A. Cotula, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 815; annual, erect, pales of 
receptacle linear or setaceous, ray-fl. usually neuter white, disk-fl. winged dilated 
below, achenes caducous top naked. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1000; Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 143. Marnta Cotula, DC. Prodr. vi. 13. 
Scinp, Stocks, ex. C. B. Clarke (probably Beluchistan),—Disrris. N. Asia, and 
westwards to Britain and the Canary Islands. 
A glabrous or hairy fetid herb, 8-18 in. high, corymbosely branched. Leaves 
gland-dotted, segments very narrow. Heads 1-1} in. diam.; peduncle slender, not 
thickened upwards; invol. bracts oblong, obtuse, margins searious ; receptacle conie. 
Achenes turbinate, tubercled, tip erenulate.— I have seen no Scind specimen of this, 
but have Beluchistan ones collected by Stocks. 
2. A. odontostephana, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 319; dwarf, hoary- 
pubescent, leaves ovate pinnatisect, segments entire or 3-5-lobed, ray-fl. 9, 
pales of receptacle subulate, achenes erowned with blunt short teeth. 
The Puwsavs, at Peshawur, Vicary, Stewart; Scixp.—Disrrim. Affghanistan, 
Beluchistan, and Persia, 
Stems many from the root. Leaves 1-3 in. long. Heads } in. diam., few-flowered : 
peduncle thickened upwards; invol. bracts hairy, oblong, obtuse ; ligules oblong ; re- 
ceptacle conie. Achenes cylindric, ribbed, tubercled; tip of outer toothed, of inner 
with a short auricle.— Stated by Clarke to being found in Seind by Stocks, but probably 
from Beluchistan. It appears to me to be identical with A. scaposa, Gay. 
65. ALLARDIA, Dene. 
Perennial, diffuse or tufted alpine herbs. Leaves alternate, cuneate, 3-5- 
toothed, or 2-3-pinnatisect. Heads often large, terminal, sessile or peduncled, 
heterogamous, rayed; ray-fl. neuter, 1-seriate, ligule spreading entire white 
