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Artemisia. ] LXXVII. composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) 325 
15,000 ft., Sirach. § Wint.; Potopa, alt. 11,500-12,000 ft., Heyde. Srxxm; on the 
Tibet frontier, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. H—Disrris. N. Asia, N. America. 
A subsueculent herb, of which the specimens are not very good. Stem 6-12 in., 
very stout and soft. Leaves radical, numerous, green, petioled, cauline subsessile, 
1-2 in., linear-oblong in outline. Heads much larger than those in any of the fore- 
going species.—Ledebour describes the root, which I have not seen, as creeping 
jointed and scaly, the brown scarious margins of the invol. bracts are peculiar. 
** Perennials with usually small heads in often spreading panicled spikes or 
racemes. 
13. A. amygdalina, Dene. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 92, t. 100; stem stout 
erect leafy, leaves subsessile lanceolate acuminate serrate teeth incurved gland- 
tipped hoary beneath, heads j5 in. ovoid few-fld. subsecund in dense short 
axillary racemes, invol. bracts oblong obtuse scarious glabrous, outer with a 
green disk. 
Kasuir; Pir Punjal, Jacquemont, Stewart. 
Stem deeply grooved and many-ribbed, glabrous. Leaves quite simple, 4-6 by 
3-11 in. rather membranous, glabrous above; nerves many and midrib slender; 
_ base narrowed into a very short petiole with minute setaceous auricles.—I have seen 
but one specimen of this very remarkable species, the leaves are like those of a willow. 
It is perhaps nearest A. vulgaris; the only other species at all like it is A. anomala, 
Hance, of China, which has shorter, broader leaves. ; 
14. A. vulgaris, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii, 971 ; tall, shrubby below, 
hoary pubescent or tomentose, stems leafy paniculately branched, leaves large 
ovate lobed laciniate or 1-2-pinnatipartite white-tomentose beneath rarely 
hoary or green on both surfaces, lobes acute irregularly serrate or lobulate lower 
petioled upper sessile or petioled with stipule-like basal lobes, uppermost linear- 
lanceolate entire, heads 4-4 in. long ovoid or subglobose clustered or seriate 
subsecund in short or long suberect or horizontal panicled racemes, invol. bracts 
woolly or glabrate, outer small herbaceous, inner almost wholly scarious, corollas 
glabrous. DC. Prodr. v. 112; Clarke Comp. Ind. 161; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 420; 
"Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 178. A. indica, Willd. ; DC. l. c. 114; Roxb, 
Lc. 419; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 199; Wight Ic. t. 1112; Wall. Cat. 3293, 
A. dubia, Wall. Cat. 3307 ; DC. l.c. 110. A. myriantha, Wall. Cat. 3297 ; 
DC. i.e. 112. A. paniculata, Roxb. Le 418. A. leptostachya, DC. i. c. 113. 
A. grata, Wall. Cat. 3294 in part; DC. l.c. 114. A. lavanduleefolia, DC. l.c. 
110. A. affinis, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 102. A. parviflora, Wight Cat. 1460, not 
of Roxb.; Rheede Hort. Mal. x. t. 45. 
Throughout the mountainous districts of Inp1a, at elevation of 5—12,000 ft., in 
the Western Himalaya; and 5-8000 ft. in Sikkim, the Khasia, Ava, and Martaban 
Mts. Mt. Aboo, in Marwar. The Western Gnuars, from the Concan, southwards to 
Cryton.—Distrriz. Temperate Europe and Asia, Siam, Java. 
A tall aromatic shrub-like herb, often forming thickets 6-8 ft. high in Sikkim, 
with branches as thick as the thumb, and leaves 7 in. long, and broad ; the leaves 
normally vary from very lobulate, like those of the garden chrysanthemum, to 
pinnatifidly 2-3-sect, and from green or hoary on both surfaces to thickly clothed 
with white or buff, tomentose beneath or on both surfaces ; the heads, too, vary 
greatly in number, disposition, size and form, from globose to ovoid, and from sessile 
to pedicelled.—I have failed to separate the following forms into varieties recognisable 
by description or by locality. A. indica was originally distinguished by its léaves 
ashy beneath; A. dubia by the more entire leaves; A. myriantha by its floribund 
branches; A. paniculata (a Caleutta garden plant) has no distinctive characters ; A. 
leptostachya should have leafless racemes, as is often the case with other forms; A. 
rata of Wallich consists of a broad leaved state of vulgaris from the Western 
eninsula, and of the same with A. Roxburghiana from the Calcutta Garden. The 
