Artemisia.) LXXVIII. composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) 329 
95. A. minor, Jacquem. in DC. Prodr. vi. 124; dwarf, silkily tomentose, 
densely tufted, stems very many short stout ascending from a stout woody root- 
stock sheathed with scarious dry petiole-bases below and clothed with imbricat- 
ing leaves above, a few elongating simple and flowering, leaves small densely 
imbricate and sessile on the flowerless stems flabellately 2-pinnatifid sessile or 
petioled on the flowering stem uppermost pinnatifid, heads 3 in. diam. bracteate 
hemispheric subsessile subsecund solitary or spicate, invol. bracts tomentose with 
broad coloured scarious margins, receptacular hairs long. A. tibetica, Herb. 
Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. A. Sieversiana, var. tibetica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 165. 
Wester Terr, alt. 15-18,000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson. Eastern Tur, N. of 
Sikkim, alt. 18,000 ft., J. D. H. 
A strongly scented, densely tufted, dwarf species of the loftiest and driest regions, 
with a woody root of probably great age giving off many tufts of short leafy branches, 
of which few elongate and flower. Leaves 1-3 in., grey ; petiole when present, rather 
stout. Heads rarely more than 6, subtended by a leaf or bract that is linear or ovate, 
entire or lobed, or sometimes reduced to one of the involucral series; corollas with 
pubescent lobes; anthers acuminate. 
** Annuals or biennials, 
26. A. Sieversiana, Willd.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 599; annual or 
biennial, hoary-pubescent, stem erect angled and ribbed simple or paniculately 
branched above, leaves mostly petioled broadly ovate 2-pinnatisect segments 
obtuse and obscurely lobed hoary on both surfaces, heads 4 to nearly A in. diam. 
broadly hemispheric pedicelled secund nodding distant in lax long racemes 
terminating the branches, outer invol. bracts green hoary, inner broad] rious, 
receptacular hairs long straight. Clarke Comp. Ind. 166; excl. var. 8; DC. 
Prodr. vi. 126. 
Western HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 8-10,000 ft. WESTERN TIBET, 
alt. 12-14,000 ft., Falconer, &c.—DisrRrB. From China, westward to S. Russia. 
Very similar in many respects to A. Absinthium, but annual (in the Indian speci- 
mens) with much larger heads, distant on thé long lax racemes, and the anthers are 
aristate.—Ledebour describes the receptacle as sometimes nearly glabrous, in which 
case the 4. pallida could be hardly distinguished from it. 
27. A. macrocephala, Jacquem. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 125; annual, dwarf, 
hoary-tomentose, branches many ascending from the root simple or sparingly 
divided, leaves ovate 2-pinnatisect, segments linear obtuse or subacute hoary on 
both surfaces, lower stoutly petioled, heads i—3 in. diam. broadly hemispheric 
shortly pedicelled secund nodding distantly racemed at the end of the branches, 
outer invol. bracts green linear tomentose, inner oblong broadly scarious, recep- 
tacular hairs long straight. A. Griffithiana, Boiss. FI. Orient. iii. 376. 
Kunawur and Western Tiret; alt. 12-16,000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson. 
Manasarowar Lake, alt. 15,500 ft, Strach. 4 Winterb.—DisrRis. Affghanistan, 
Central Asia. 
Stem rather stout for the size of the plant, 4-8 in. long, often decumbent at the 
base; branches spreading in a circle from the root, simple, rarely suberect and again 
branched. Leaves about A in. long, mostly sessile. Heads yellow; invol. bracts 
numerous; corollas often with hairy lobes ; anthers acuminate. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. f 
A. (Abrotanum) RroYLEANA, DC. Prodr. vi. 115; “herbaceous, strict, wholly 
glabrous, cauline leaves pinnatipartite from the base, pinne pairs 7 or 9, lobes broadly 
linear acute entire, branches of the panicle erect, heads racemed secund subglobose 
subcernuous, invol. bracts ovate subrotund margins scarious.—A most distinct species, 
leaf-lobes 10 by 14 lines.” — N.W. India, Royle. I cannot identify this. 
` A. (Abrotanum) pattens, Wall. Cat. 3302; a very obscure plant, procured from 
the Madras missionaries by Wallich, and called A. absinthii, by Heyne; it resembles 
