Senecio. | LXXVIII. composite. (J. D. Hooker.) ; 339 
petiole not aurieled. Corymb with filiform bracts ` heads erect or drooping. Involucre 
cylindric. Achenes ribbed, i5 in.; pappus white.—The var. Hookeri, Clarke 1. e., 
differs only in the rather broader heads with more developed ligules ` var. pubescens, 
from Chumba, has hairs on the leaf-nerves beneath. 
2. S. chrysanthemoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 365; glabrous below, 
pubescent above, stem erect usually much corymbosely branched, leaves glabrous 
rarely hoary beneath, lower lyrate-pinnatifid with an auricled petiole and large 
gashed terminal lobe, upper sessile broadly amplexicaul pinnatifid, the lobes 
often very large, auricle gashed and toothed, heads j in. diam. numerous brac- 
teolate corymbose many-fld., invol. bracts 10—12 oblong acute, ligules 8-12, 
achenes glabrous or puberulous all with white pappus or the ray without 
pappus. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kasumir to Sikkim, alt. 8-13,000 ft. Kuasra Mrs., 
alt. 4-5000 ft. 
The commonest Senecio of the Himalaya, simulating the European S. chrysanthe- 
anifolius, but with glabrous achenes. Stem 2-6 ft., robust, striate. Leaves, lower 
sometimes reduced to an ovate or oblong erenate blade, at others lyrate with a large 
terminal and few or many small lateral lobes, always less acutely cut than the upper, 
and narrowed into a long or short winged petiole ; upper leaves 1-9 by 3-4 in., with 
always broadly auricled toothed bases; rarely all the leaves are lyrate-pinnatifid ; 
terminal lobes ovate, oblong or deltoid. Corymb in ordinary states much branched 
with auricled forks and stout peduncles with filiform bracts; invol. bracts à-i in, 
thickened at the bases. _Achenes is in., strongly ribbed. 
Var. 1. chrysanthemoides proper; lower leaves glabrous lyrate-pinnatifid, upper 
‘sessile amplexicaul, heads many glabrescent, achenes glabrous all pappose. S. chry- 
santhemoides, DC. l.c. S. laciniatus and stipulatus, Wall. Cat. 3124, 3126. S. lotus, 
Edgew. in Trans, Linn. Soc. xx. 74, S. Jacobsea, Don Prodr. 179.— Common. 
Van. 2. sisymbriiformis; puberulous, all the leaves lyrate with a large terminal 
ovate toothed lobe, heads pubescent, achenes all pappose. S. sisymbriiformis, DC. 
Prodr. vi. 366; Clarke Comp. [nd. 190.—N.W. India, Royle; Kashmir, Falconer ; 
Marri, Fleming. : 
Var. 3. spectabilis; foliage, &c., of var. 1, but ray flowers without pappus. 
S. spectabilis, Wall. Cat. 3127, oe: DC. l.c. 
Van. 4. khasiana; foliage and heads of var. 1, but achenes puberulous, pappus of 
ray-fl. scanty or 0, of the disk white or reddish. S. spectabilis, Wall. Cat. 3127 B; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 190, in part. S. pallens, var. khasianus, Clarke l.c. 192. — Khasia 
Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. This unites S. diversifolius with chrysanthemoides. 
Var. 5. analogus; leaves smaller cobwebby beneath all lyrate-pinnatifid, heads 
usually smaller glabrescent or hoary, achenes all pappose.—S. analogus, DC. l.c. 
N.W. India, Royle; Kashmir, Falconer, Thomson ; Marri, Fleming. 
3. S. bracteolatus, Hook. f.; dwarf, simple, 4-6 in. high, stem above 
and leaves beneath tomentose, radical-leaves long petioled elliptic obtuse toothed 
or lobulate, cauline sessile with shorter petioles pinnatifidly lobed, heads 1-3 
in. diam. many-fld., bracteoles many subulate-lanceolate half as long as and 
Amice to the similar purplish invol. bracts, ligules 10-12 longer than the 
involucre 4-nerved, achenes glabrous, pappus white. S. alpinus, Clarke Comp. 
Jnd. 190, not of Scopoli. 
Srxxim HiMALAYA ; alt. 15-16,000 Tu uo TE HE 
I at first supposed this to be an alpine dwarf form of S. chrysanthemoides, but the 
many long bracteoles of the involucre are very different from what any form of that 
lant presents. I found it but once, at an early season for the lofty elevation it 
inhabits, and the ticket was lost with many of my specimens from that region. It is 
a high Alpine form, and hence specimens from other localities would show much 
ariation from those described. It differs from S. alpinus notably in the bracteolate 
eads, 
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