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Doronicum. ] LXXVIII. OoMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 333 
Srxxim Himaraya; Lachen and Tungu, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 
A robust herb, 1-2 ft. high ; radical leaves 0 or soon withering ; cauline 4-6 by 1-2 
in., often unequal-sided. Heads 24 in. diam.; invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate, aeumi- 
nate; ligules about as long. Achenes (ripe not seen); pappus short, reddish. 
3. D. Falconeri, Clarke mss. ; stem simple puberulous or glabrate, leaves 
all petioled obovate or spathulate obscurely toothed, heads 1-2 glandular-villous 
base turbinate, achenes of the ray epappose, of the disk pappose. D. scorpioides, 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 169, in part. 
Kasmurm, alt. 13,000 ft., Falconer, Clarke. Western Ter; Karakoram, alt. 
14,000 ft., Clarke. 
A stout herb, 1-1} ft. high, stem nearly naked above. Leaves, including the petiole, 
5-6 in. long, variable in breadth. Heads 2-3 in. diam. ; invol. bracts linear-lanceolate ; 
ligules very numerous, longer than the bracts. Achenes very immature; pappus 
short. 
76. GYNURA, Cass. 
Succulent herbs, rarely undershrubs, glabrous or hispid. Leaves alternate, 
entire toothed or pinnatisect. Heads solitary or corymbose, bracteolate at the 
base, homogamous, disciform, yellow or purplish; fl. all 5, fertile, tubular, with 
rarely a few more slender outer 9 ones, limb 5-toothed. Jnvolucre cylindric or 
subcampanulate; bracts 10-12, l-seriate, narrow, equal, margins scarious; re- 
ceptacle flat, pitted or shortly fimbrillate. -Anther-bases entire or subauricled. 
Style-arms slender; tips long, subulate, hispid. -Achenes narrow, many-ribbed ; 
pappus hairs copious, œ -seriate, slender, white.—DIsTRIB. Species about 20, 
warm regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
The species of this genus are much confused in De Candolle’s Prodromus, and there 
are probably fewer in India than are here described. 
* Stem erect. 
l. G. nitida, DC. in Wight Contrib. 24; Prodr. vi. 299; glabrous except 
the puberulous pedicels, stem robust branched below, branches simple, leaves 
erowded towards the bases of the branches obovate or oblanceolate acute or ob- 
tuse succulent remotely serrate, base narrowed auricled or not, uppermost sessile, 
heads with fleshy turbinate pubescent bases, invol. bracts glabrous, achenes 
hispid. Wight Ic. t. 1121; Clarke Comp. Ind. 171. G. simplex, Dalz. $ Gibs. 
Bomb, Fl. 130. Cacalia incana, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 3158. 
NirnagERRY and Putney Mrs., Wight, &c. 
There are two forms of this in Wight's Herbarium, one a very robust plant from 
the Nilgherry mountains, with a long stout stem and broadly oblong auricled upper 
cauline leaves (as figured in Wight’s Icones); the other has short branches, with 
narrow, more petioled leaves; both have hispid achenes. The former of these closely 
resembles in habit G. angulosa, and the latter G. pseudo-china. 
2. G. nepalensis, DC. Prodr. vi. 300; tall, shrubby below and corym- 
bosely branched above, hoarily pubescent or subtomentose, leafy, leaves obovate 
oblong or lanceolate the lower narrowed into a petiole entire sinuate-toothed or 
base subpinnatifid, heads many, invol. bracts hoary-villous, achenes glabrous or 
sparsely pubescent. Clarke Comp. Ind.171. G. foetens, DC. Le Cacalia auran- 
tiaca and foetens, Wall. Cat. 3146, 3156. C. flava, Herb. Ham. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 2-5000 ft. MARTABAN; 
mountains near Moulmein, alt. 4-5000 ft., Parish, Ava, Wallich.—DisTRIE. Java ? 
A tall handsome species; stem below as thick as the little finger. Leaves 3-7 in., 
acuminate, usually irregularly coarsely toothed, hoary-pubescent on both surfaces. 
Corymbs often large and broad; heads 2-1 in. long.— The Javanese G. aurantiaca 
hardly differs from this, but its hairs are not white. 
