322 LXXVIII. CoMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Artemisia. 
celled pale shining, invol. bracts broadly oblong with very broad scarious 
ee and a very narrow green disk. Clarke Comp. Ind. 157 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 
ii. 563, 
Western Tiset, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Thomson; Lahul, Jaeschke,—DisrRiB. Aff- 
ghanistan, W. Asia, S. and Mid Russia. 
A green erect herb 1-2 ft. high; stems grooved and ribbed. Leaves 1-13 in., quite 
entire in Indian specimens. Heads sometimes clustered in threes, horizontal or nod- 
ding; flowers rather numerous. Achenes, ripe not seen in Indian specimens.—Though 
described as an annual, the roots seem to be perennial. The Affghan specimens have 
rather smaller heads, and are probably Boissier's A. campestris, var. inodora. 
3. A. glauca, Pall.; DC. Prodr. vi. 97 ; herbaceous, perennial, pubescent, 
radical leaves 3-fid or 0, lobes acute, cauline sessile linear or linear-lanceolate 
rarely lobed, heads subglobose à in. diam. in very slender lax short racemes with 
capillary pedicels, invol. bracts glabrous oblong obtuse scarious with a narrow 
E disk. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 503. A. dubia, Wall.? Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 
d 
Western Hrmaraya; Kunawru ard Jamu, alt, 7-9000 ft., Thomson.— DISTRIB. 
Siberia, Mongolia. 
Very similar to A. Dracunculus, and distinguished by the pubescence only. 
4. A. desertorum, Spreng. Syst. iii. 490; herbaceous, perennial, glabrous, 
leaves 1-2 in. sessile entire and linear or 2-3-partite or pinnatifid with linear 
acute segments, heads usually pedicelled OE à in. diam. sessile or 
peduneled, solitary and distant or in clusters of 2-3 short forming panicled 
racemes, invol. bracts orbicular or oblong, outer herbaceous or with narrow 
scarious margins. DC. Prodr. vi. 97; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 564; Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 158. A. foetida, Jacquem. in DC. Prodr. vi. 98. A. Jacquemontiana, 
Besser; DC. l.c. 97. 
Western TrBET and Kunawor, alt. 10-16,000 ft., Falconer, Jacquemont, Thomson, 
—Distris. Eastern Turkestan, alt. 17-18,000 ft. (Henderson); Siberia. 
A suberect fetid herb; branches grooved and ribbed. Leaves green, acute. Heads 
dark green; outer invol. bracts often wholly herbaceous; flowers rather numerous. 
Achenes as in A. salsoloides.—In A. Jacquemontiana the invol. bracts are more searious, 
and present a transition to A. Dracunculus, of which this is probably a variety; it is 
referred by Maximoviez (Dec. xi. 526) to parviflora, Roxb., but I think erroneously, 
5. A. parviflora, Rovb. Hort. Beng. 61; FI. Ind. vi. 420; perennial, 
herbaceous, villous, hoary or glabrous, stems erect or ascending stout panicu- 
lately branched grooved, leaves sessile linear-cuneate, tip entire or acutely 2-8- 
fid or flabellately lobulate rarely pinnatifid, upper linear entire acute, heads 
de in. diam. globose secund in elongate strict panicled racemes, invol. bracts 
broadly oblong with broad scarious edges. Don Prodr. 181; DC. in Wight 
Contrib. 20; Prodr. vi. 100; Dalz. AS Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 314; Wall. Cat. 3298; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 159. A. glabrata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 20 ; Prodr. vi. 100 ; 
Wight Ic. t. 1111. A. cuneifolia, DC. Le 126, 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 7-9000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7-11,000 ft. 
Kuasa Mrs., Ava, and ManTABAN, alt. 5-7000 ft. BEHAR; on Parusnath, alt. 4000 
ft. Western Guats; from the Conean southwards to the Pulney Mts. (absent in 
Ceylon). 
i^ E inodorous herb 1-3 ft. high, glabrous or laxly villous. Leaves very 
variable, 1-2 in. long, the lowest sometimes nearly 1 in. diam., with palmately spread- 
ing 3-5-fid lobes, the upper middle sometimes 1-2-pinnatifid with narrow lobes, but 
usually the lower and middle cauline are simply narrowly cuneate and acutely 3-6-fid 
at the broad end; all have generally a pair of stipule-like narrow lobes at the base. 
Heads almost always pelicelled, greenish; flowers 6-10. Achenes about A, in. long, 
ellipsoid, smooth, brown.—The stems are so robust as to suggest that this is often 
