Allardia.] LXXVIII. compogitz. (J. D. Hooker.) 313 
rosy or lilac; disk-fl. D. fertile, tubular, limb 5-fid. Involucre hemispheric; ` 
bracts oo -seriate ; margins scarious, lacerate, often black; receptacle flat, naked. 
Anther-bases truncate or with short connate auricles, Style-arms of D broad, 
with truncate penicillate tips. -Achenes of Y 5-angled, glabrous or glandular, of 
Q empty; pappus of rigid brown or reddish wavy flattened bristles, sometimes 
dilated at the tips and with split margins.—DistR1B. Species 4 or 5, Himalayan 
and Central Asiatic. 
1. A. glabra, Dene. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 88, t. 96; glabrous or sparsely 
woolly, leaves cuneiform 3-fid, lobes entire or toothed, heads sessile, outer invol. 
bracts woolly herbaceous with purple scarious margins, achenes glandular, pappus 
of the ray-fl. scanty of the disk copious brown, bristles slender not dilated up- 
wards. Clarke Comp. Ind. 145, excl. syn. Roylet. A. tridactylites, Hook. f. & 
Thoms.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 144. A. glabra, tridactylites, and Hugelii, Schultz- 
Bip. in Pollichia, xx. 442. Waldheimia. tridactylites, Kar. $ Kir. m Bull. Soc. 
Imp. Mosc. 1842, 126. 
Eastern and Western Tse, alt. 15-18,000 ft., from Ladak eastwards to the 
Sikkim frontier.—DisrRi». Alatau Mts. 
Densely tufted, strongly scented. Leaves 3-3 in. long, lobes linear subacute. 
Heads 1-1} in. diam., sessile; ligules broadly elliptic, in. long, purple. Achenes 
à in. long; pappus } in. long; bristles unequal, flat, rigid, shining, margins here and 
there split, tips acute. 
2. A. vestita, Hook. f. § Thoms. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 145; densely thickly 
clothed with buff or whitish wool, leaves cuneiform 3-5-fid, lobes short obtuse, 
heads shortly peduncled, invol. bracts membranous with broad pale brown deeply 
fimbriate margins, achenes glandular, pappus hairs with dilated tips yellowish. 
Western Tiger; Takli pass, Zanskar, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Thomson. 
Habit and foliage of A. glabra, but distinguished by the dense woolly clothing, 
peduncled heads, which are $-1 in. diam., membranous invol. bracts, and the short 
yellowish pappus, which is not } in. long. 
3. A. nivea, Hook. f. § Thoms.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 148; densely clothed 
with white appressed wool, leaves cuneiform 3-lobed or -toothed, lobes short 
obtuse, heads small sessile, invol. bracts woolly with narrow brown scarious 
margins, achenes glandular, pappus hairs with slightly dilated tips yellowish. 
Western Trset, Falconer; Nubra, Thomson. 
Smaller than any of the other Indian species. Leaves densely crowded, 3-1 in. 
long. Heads i-$ in. diam.; ligules few, 8-10, broadly elliptic, 4 in. long. Pappus à 
in. long, very copious. 
4. A. tomentosa, Dene. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 87, t. 95; clothed with soft 
white wool, leaves oblong or linear-oblong 1-2-pinnatifid, segments various, 
heads peduncled, invol. bracts woolly, achenes glabrous, pappus bristles flattened 
with purplish often dilated tips whitish or yellowish. Schultz-Bip. in Pollichia, 
xx. 441; Clarke Comp. Ind. 144. 
Western Tiger and Tibetan passes of the Western HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to 
Kumaon, alt 13—-16,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 
Loosely tufted; branches elongate, ascending, 4-8 in. high, naked upwards. Leaves 
11-3 in. long, variable in breadth and amount of division. Heads 2-3 in. diam.; 
ligules very many, linear, 1 in. long, entire. Achenes grooved and wrinkled, pale; 
pappus 4-3 in. long. , 
5. A. Stoliczkai, Clarke Comp. Ind. 145; glabrous, leaves 2-pinnatisect, 
segments narrow, heads peduncled, invol. bracts glabrous with black scarious 
margins, pappus hairs connate below yellowish. 
