856 LXXVII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Senecio. 
oblong acute or obtuse glabrous, ligules 3-5, achenes glabrous. DC. Prodr. vi. 
368. S, vagans, var. 8. Clarke Comp. Ind. 188. 
NrPALEsk HrwALAYA ; central region, Wallich; eastern region, Tambur river, alt. 
6-8000 ft., J. D. H. 
One of the few perfectly glabrous Indian species of the section. Branches below 
terete, above often ribbed or angled. Leaves 3-5 by 1-2 in., thin, with slender 
nerves, base narrowed into the short petiole. Heads on almost capillary peduneles, 
drooping; bracts at the forks of the corymbs setaceous; invol. bracts much shorter 
than the flowers. Achenes } in., very slender. 
62. S. triligulatus, Ham. in Don Prodr. 178; glabrous except some- 
times the corymbs, stem and branches long and slender, leaves petioled ovate- 
lanceolate caudate-acuminate more or less serrate membranous, heads + in. long 
few-fld, ebracteolate in rounded axillary and terminal much branched corymbs 
with short slender branches and peduncles, invol. bracts 8 short linear-oblong 
obtuse, ligules 3-4, achenes glabrous. DC. Prodr. vi. 368. S. vagans, var. a, 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 188. Solidago floribundus, Wall. Cat. 3111. 
CENTRAL and Eastern HiMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., J. D. Fm 
&e.; Bhotan and Mishmi, Grifith.—Dıstrir. Birma. 
Habit of S. vagans, but corymbs very different, rounded with shorter branches and 
peduneles, and heads much shorter, leaves with longer points. 
63. S. Simonsii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 188; glabrous, branches flexuous 
terete, leaves shortly petioled broadly elliptic acute toothed glabrous shining 
leautifully reticulated, neads small ebracteolate 8-16-fld. in axillary corymbs 
and a terminal leafy panicle, invol. bracts 7-10 oblong subacute glabrous, ligules 
0, achenes 5-angled glabrous, pappus white. 
Assam, Simons, 
I have seen no specimen; Clarke describes it as a very handsome plant with leaves 
4—5 in. long. 
DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
S. ? peavanus, DC. Prodr. vi. 365; an altogether doubtful plant, which cannot be 
determined without a reference to the Candollean Herbarium. 
S. Anpersont, Clarke Comp. Ind. 104, does not occur near the limits of British 
India. 
80. OTHONNOPSIS, Jaub. & Spach. 
Glabrous leafy undershrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, fleshy. Heads: 
peduneled, solitary or panicled on the shortened leafy branches, heterogamous, 
radiate or disciform, yellow; outer fl. 9, l-seriate, fertile, ligule entire or 3- 
toothed or 0; disk-fl. &, sterile, tubular, limb 5-fid. Znvolucre ovoid or cam- 
panulate; bracts l-seriate, oblong, bases subconnate; receptacle flat, naked. 
‘Anther-bases entire. Style-arms of D linear, tip truncate penicillate. Achenes 
of 9 oblong, obscurely 5-10-ribbed, pubescent or villous; of i$ slender, empty, 
glabrous; pappus hairs of 9 copious, oc -seriate, slender, white; of D scanty.— 
DisrRim. Species 8, N. and S. Africa, and S. W. Asia. 
]. O. intermedia, Boiss. Fi. Orient. iii. 414; branches strict erect, leaves 
oblong elliptic or linear-oblong rarely subspathulate obtuse or acute Le entire, 
heads subsolitary long-peduncled, invol. bracts elliptic or lanceolate shorter than 
the ligules, achenes pubescent. Clarke Comp. Ind. 210. 
Wozaristan, alt. 6-7000 ft., Stewart.—DisTRIB. Westward to Persia. 
A shrub, 1-3 ft. high, with woody erect leafy branches and white bark. Leaves 
1-24 in., obscurely 3-nerved, coriaceous when dry. Heads numerous, j-1 in. diam. ; 
peduncles 1-3 in, stout, terminal and sublateral, erect, naked, a little swollen below 
