364. LXXVII, coMPOoSIPE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Senecio, 
cordate or subreniform and 3-7-angled or palmately lobed, angles or lobes 
coarsely sinuate-toothed and teeth acute and apiculate, petiole slender not 
auricled, heads narrow 5-6-fld. bracteolate long-peduncled drooping in simple or 
branched long slender racemes, invol. bracts 5-6 linear membranous, ligules 0, 
achenes slender glabrous shorter than the scanty white pappus. Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 209. Prenanthes ? quinqueloba, Wall. Cat. 3261; DC. Prodr. vi. 195. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 10—12,000 ft. 
Root perennial; stem grooved, 2-3 ft., naked below. Leaves 2-4 in., sometimes as 
broad as long or even broader, rather glaucous beneath, uppermost not cordate. 
Racemes a foot long and less, very slender, sometimes quite simple with secund brac- 
teate peduneles bearing solitary terminal heads and bulb-like leaf-buds in the axils; 
or the peduncle becomes an elongated branch bearing many bulbils. Jnvol. bracts 
obtuse or acute, green; corolla large, tube shorter than the campanulate limb ; anthers 
exserted, with very short tails, Achenes i; in., tip dilated, 
55. S. chenopodifolius, DC. Prodr. vi. 364; herbaceous, finely pubes- 
cent above, stem branched naked below, leaves membranous triangular-cordate 
or obscurely 3-lobed acuminate irregularly sinuate-toothed angles and teeth 
apiculate, petiole slender base broadly auricled, heads small numerous subsecund 
9-fld. fascicled on the slender branches of panicled racemes, invol. bracts 3-5 
minute, ligules 0, achenes glabrous shorter than the copious brown pappus. 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 209. Mikania chenopodioides, Wall. Cat. 3175. 
CENTRAL and WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft., Falconer, Stewart, 
to Nipal, Wallich. 
Stem 2-4 ft., rather stout, but soft, terete, often flexuous. Leaves 3-5 in. long and 
often as broad, base truncate or cordate, subglaucous beneath. Racemes very slender, 
panicled; heads i in. long, very shortly peduncled, drooping; invol. bracts 7 in., 
oblong, pubescent, much smaller than the corollas, the slender tube of which equals in 
length the inflated limb; anthers hardly exserted. Achenes turbinate, unripe 4. in. 
long. 
*** Erect herbs with leafy stems or branches and terminal broad corymbs, 
56. S. Kunthianus, Wall. Cat. 3118; stem erect glabrous or puberulous 
leafy simple or corymbosely branched above, leaves short-petioled ovate- or 
elliptic-lanceolate acute coarsely toothed white-tomentose beneath, heads A in. 
long many-fld. bracteolate ek vn gir in broad terminal corymbs, invol. bracts 
5-8 narrow acute glabrescent, ligules 5-7, achenes pubescent. DC. Prodr. vi. 
369; Clarke Comp. Ind. 186. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt, 10-14,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 12,000 ft. 
Stem stout, often glandular, red when dry. Leaves 11-3 by 1-1 in., smooth and 
glabrous above, snowy-white beneath. Heads peduncled. Achenes À in.; pappus 
copious, white, as long as the tubular corollas. 
57, S. acuminatus, Wall. Cat. 5107; pubescent above, stem corym- 
bosely branched, leaves shortly petioled elongate-lanceolate caudate-acuminate 
finely serrate glabrous on both surfaces, nerves reticulate, heads 4 in. long 2-3- 
fld. bracteolate narrow in terminal and axillary long-peduncled corymbs, invol. 
braets 3-5 linear-oblong obtuse glabrous, ligule solitary minute, achenes glabrous. 
DC. Prodr. vi. 868; Clarke Comp. Ind. 187. 
. CENTRAL and Eastern Himaraya; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft., 
ii. T 
An erect herb, 2-3 ft. ; stem rather flexuous, obtusely angled, Leaves 5-7 by 3-14 
in., rather thin, base acute. Heads very numerous; flowers twice as long as the in- 
voluere, Pappus reddish, equalling the tubular corollas. 
