368 LXXVII. coMposit#. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Saussurea. 
9. S. Stoliczkai, Clarke Comp. Ind. 225; dwarf, densely tufted, white 
with cottony wool, leaves obovate-oblong or oblanceolate lyrate or sinuate- 
innatifid cottony beneath or on both surfaces, lobes acute or obtuse short very 
irregular terminal ovate, head 4—1 in. diam. sessile, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate 
outer with broad bases inner narrower membranous with dark tips. receptacle 
densely bristly, outer pappus bristles few scabrid. 
Western TinET and Kunawor; alt. 13-16,000 ft., Thomson, Stoliczka. 
Root stout; branches of stock often as thick as the little finger, crown divided 
into very stout short 1-headed branches clothed with brown scarious leaf-sheaths. 
Leaves 1-9 in., usually snow white, lobes sometimes a little recurved, obtuse or 
acute. Znvol. bracts % in. long, sheathed by the bases of the uppermost leaves; 
corolla upwards of } in,; anther-tails short woolly. Achenes glabrous, j in. long; 
pappus } in. brown. 
10. S. Sughoo, Clarke Comp. Ind. 225; dwarf, stem 0 or 4-6 in., leaves 
oblong-obovate or oblanceolate acute very coriaceous narrowed into the petiole 
coarsely toothed or runcinately pinnatifid with the teeth and lobes apiculate 
scaberulous above white-tomentose beneath, heads } in. diam. solitary sessile or 
2-3 shortly peduncled glabrous or puberulous, outer invol. bracts lanceolate 
from an ovate base coriaceous inner linear acuminate scarious, receptacle bristly, 
outer pappus-bristles scabrid or 0. 
Sıxxım Hrwaraya; towards the Tibetan frontier, alt. 12—16,000 ft., J. D. H., T. 
Anderson. 
Very variable, smaller specimens have a divided root-stock j-1 in. long and one 
sessile head, larger have an undivided stock and an elongating leafy stem 6 in. high 
with 2 or more peduncled heads. Leaves coriaceous in the larger specimens, 3 in. 
long with a slender petiole 1-1} in. in smaller the leaves are shorter petioled or 
subsessile, upper surface reticulated. Jnvol. bracts above margined and tipped with 
dark purple; corolla more than } in.; anther-tails short, woolly. Achenes muricate 
and sparsely villous; pappus } in. pale brown. 
11. S. Yakla, Clarke Comp. Ind. 997 ; dwarf, stemless, leaves sessile or 
M spreading large short or long linear-oblong pinnate or pinnatifid mem- 
ranous puberulous above white-tomentose beneath, lobes or segments broadly 
ovate or subtriangular sinuate-toothed tips and teeth mucronate, heads 1-3 very 
large 1-3 in. diam. sessile pubescent or glabrate, invol. braets narrowly lanceo- 
late acuminate rather membranous pale, recept. bristles long, anther-tails laciniate, 
achenes 4-gonous muricate, outer pappus-hairs O. 
Srmxm Himaraya; Yeumtong and Chola, alt. 11-12,000 ft., J. D. H. Yakla, alt. 
16,000 ft., Clarke. 
Root-stock woody, undivided. Leaves very flaccid in specimens from 11—12,000 ft., 
10-15 by 2-24 in., in those from 16,000 ft. 3-4 in. by 2-3 in. Heads very variable ; 
invol. bracts erect; corolla nearly 1 in. long.  Achenes} in., angled; angles 
muricate, crown strongly cupped; pappus $ in., brown.—Habit of a Dolomiea 
(Jurinea). 
Sxcr. 3. Caulescentes. Heads solitary, rarely 2-3 on an erect elongate 
quite simple stem or leafy peduncle 1-6 in. high. Leaves both radical and 
cauline. (Heads sometimes sessile, see also forms of species in sect. 2.) 
* Leaves pinnatifid or pinnate, white beneath, 
12. S. taraxicifolia, Wall. Cat, 2914; stem O or 1-6 in. glabrous or 
cottony, leaves petioled spreading linear elongate runcinate-pinnatifid glabrous 
or nearly so above white-tomentose beneath, lobes nnmerous oblong or obtusely 
triangular rarely toothed or lobulate, tips and teeth mucronate, head solitary 
1-1} in. diam. glabrous or sparsely cottony, invol. bracts lanceolate, receptacle 
