Artemisia.) LA, compositz. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 
Ind. 160. A. Messerschmidiana, Besser Monog.; Abrot. 27; DC. Prodr. vi. 
107. 
Western Tipet, Kunawor, and the Tibetan region of Kumaon, alt. 9-17,000 ft. 
—Disrris. Mid. and S. Russia, Siberia, Dahuria. 
Habit of A. vestita, but the leaves are smaller and alike on both surfaces, the 
heads are twice as large, and the flowers far more numerous. The outer invol. bracts 
in both are sometimes linear and green. 
19. A. Campbellii, Hook. f. $ T. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 164 (excl. locality 
of W. Tibet); dwarf, clothed with buff tomentum, stems simple, ascending 
om a creeping woody branched stock, leaves ovate pinnatisect segments 2-3- 
lobed, lobes lanceolate acute tomentose on both surfaces, petiole stout, heads 2 in. 
diam. hemispheric sessile clustered clusters in interrupted simple or racemose 
spikes, invol. bracts densely woolly oblong, outer with narrow scarious margins, 
inner scarious. 
Stxxm HiMALAYA; on the Tibetan passes and north of them, alt. 16—18,000 ft., 
ED. H. 
A strong scented, tufted, stout herb, less than a foot high, softly, often subsilkily 
tomentose all over; rootstock stout, with stout woody descending fibres. Radical 
leaves 1-14 in. long; petiole stout, with a sheathing base; cauline sessile, with 
auricled bases, segments with revolute margins. Heads brown, in woolly clusters ; 
receptacle very small; flowers not numerous.—Through some accident Clarke has 
referred to this species a Western Tibetan plant of Falconer's, &c., and a portion of 
Wallich’s N. 3302 (A. vestita), from Kashmir. 
*** Perennials with rather large heads in simple or sparingly branched erect 
axillary and terminal racemes, 
(The species 20, 21, 22 are very closely allied and closely resemble states of 
16, 17 and 18, all may prove forms of one or two species.) 
20. A. Moorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. 3296; DC. Prodr. vi. 117 ; hoary 
or tomentose, rootstock creeping, stem simple below, leaves ovate or oblong 
2-pinnatifid white-tomentose beneath, rachis pinnatifid, segments spreading 
ovate or lanceolate acute, heads large 3-1 in. diam. broadly hemispheric 15-20- 
fld. sessile solitary or in clusters along the long racemes, invol. bracts obovate 
tomentose broadly scarious, receptacle broad hemispheric.—A. hypoleuca ? 
Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
Kasum; BHaltal, alt. 9—13,000 ft.,and Wexsrern Ter, alt. 13-14,000 ft., 
Thomson, Kunawur, at Spiti, Jaeschke. 
This resembles closely states of 4. Rorburghiana, var. grata, in foliage, and it has 
a similar root, but the inflorescence is very peculiar, the large heads forming inter- 
rupted elongated spikes or racemes, with spaces of 1—2 in. between the solitary heads 
or clusters of 2-3 heads. The flowers are purple, very numerous, the receptacle 
totally different, and the achenes twice as large (3; in. long). 
21. A. persica, Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 373; tall, erect, perennial P, hoary 
with white tomentum, paniculately branched above, leafy, leaves small ovate or 
flabellate decompoundly pinnatisect, segments minute linear or obovate obtuse 
spreading, rachis simple or lobulate, heads à in. diam. subglobose rather remote 
edicelled secund nodding in short or long axillary strict erect racemes, invol. 
racts tomentose outer linear green, inner orbicular broadly scarious, receptacle 
small convex obscurely pubescent. Clarke Comp. Ind. 165. 
Western Tuer, alt. 9-14,000 ft., Zhomson.—Distris, Affghanistan, S. Persia, 
Kurdistan. 
Described by Boissier as a perennial, but the Tibetan examples are rather like 
biennials and very strongly scented. Stem 3—4 ft., grooved and ribbed, branches long 
