I Bn 
à 
970 Lxxvur comvosirz. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saussurea., 
Pappvs more than } in., pale brown.—I can find no difference whatever between the 
two following forms except that of the pappns. 
Van. 1. Outer pappus of plumose bristles.—Kashmir. 
Var. 2. Outer pappus of seabrid bristles or 0.— Western Tibet and Kashmir. 
** Leaves pinnatifid, glabrous on both surfaces. 
16. S. Andersoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 226; perfectly glabrous, stem 0 
or 3-6 in., leaves spreading linear-elongate sessile or petioled membranous pale 
beneath runcinate-pinnatifid, lobes distant small short ovate and acute or 
subulate, heads solitary 4—1 in., invol.-bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate with 
dark borders, recept. bristles few, anther-tails woolly, achenes muricate, pappus 
dark brown outer 0. 
Sixkme Hrsaraya ; Lachen, alt. 10-12,000 ft., J. D. H: Jongri, alt. 18,000 ft., 
Clarke. 
This much resembles $. taravicifolia, but is perfectly glabrous, with very short 
distant leaf-lobes or -teeth, between which the rachis is linear, the invol. bracts aro 
much broader and highly coloured, the achenes and pappus are very different. 
17. S. eriostemon, Wall. Cat. 2912; nearly glabrous, stem stout 
elongate 6-12 in. 1-leaved, leaves membranous almost all radical linear pinnati- 
fidly lobed and toothed, lobes and teeth short broad acute and aristate, head 
solitary 1-14 in. diam., invol. bracts lanceolate subsquarrose, recept. bristles 
long, anther-tails fimbriate, achenes smooth 4-angled, outer pappus 0. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 229. Aplotaxis nepalensis, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 880; Deless. Ic. 
Sel. iv. t. 67; DC. Prodr. vi, 529. Centaurea taraxicifolia, Don Prodr. 167 ; 
Less, in. Linnea, vi. 88, Exiostemon taraxicifolium, Less. Synops. 12. 
NA, Wallich. 
The foliage of this resembles strongly that of S. Andersoni, but the achenes are 
very different. 
*** Leaves entire or nearly so, tomentose villous or woolly beneath, or on both 
Y ? ^ 
surfaces, glandular-pubescent in S. glanduligera, 
18. S. Roylei, Clarke Comp. Ind. 229, excl. syn.; stem stout 6-18 in. 
vlabrate or cottony, radical leaves 8-10 in. petioled erect elongate-lanceolate 
acuminate quite entire or sinuate or pinnatifid towards the base only, cauline 
few sessile j-amplexicaul, heads large 14-2 in. usually bracteate tomentose, 
invol bracts lanceolate, recept. bristles equalling the long smooth achenes, 
anther-tails woolly, outer pappus bristles scabrid. 8. uniflora, Clarke l. c. 229, 
not of Wallich. Aplotaxis Roylei, DC. Prodr. vi. 539. 
Western HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kunawur, alt. 11—14,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 
Root-stock stout, usually simple, clothed with the remains of broad petiolar 
sheaths, Stem usually very stout and thickened under the head. Leaves very 
variable in length and breadth, much narrowed at both ends, sometimes runcinate or 
lyrate-pinnatifid, sometimes snow-white beneath, nearly glabrous in a specimen from 
Munro, nearly 2 in. broad in some of Thomson's from the Werang Pass. Jnvol. bracts 
long, straight ; corolla short for the size of the head, about } in. long. Achenes } in. 
and upwards, narrow, angled and delicately ribbed ; pappus 4 in., pale brown, outer 
bristles numerous, sometimes unilateral. 
19. S. graminifolia, Wall. Cat. 2911; stem 6-10 in. very stout much 
thiekened upwards leafy densely silkily woolly and shining, rarely glabrate, 
leaves very slender narrowly linear from a dilated shining scarious base flexuous 
tomentose beneath, margins quite entire recurved, head solitary 1-14 in. diam. 
densely silkily woolly bracteate by many spreading or reflexed or linear leaves, 
