374 Lxxvni compostr#. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Saussurea. 
** Leaves entire or subpinnatifid, cottony or tomentose beneath; heads narrow, 
erect, 
30. S. albescens, Mook. f. A T. in Clarke Comp. Ind. 233; stem 6-10 
ft. simple below and leaves beneath densely or laxly cottony or tomentose, 
leaves 4-12 in. acute or acuminate entire or sinuate-lobed or subpinnatifid 
glabrous scabrid or cobwebby above with slender branching nerves, lower 
narrowly oblong petioled, upper sessile ovate or linear or oblong-ovate, heads 
narrow 3-5 in. long in copious long peduncled terminal and axillary flat-topped 
corymbs, invol, bracts erect glabrous rarely cottony rigid purplish outer ovate 
acute, inner lanceolate, recept. bristles long, achenes narrow 4-angled muricate 
above, outer pappus 0. ? S. chenopodifolia, Klatt in Sitzungsb. Münch. Akad. 
1878, 92. Serratula albescens, Wall. Cat. 2918. Aplotaxis albescens, DC. 
Prodr. vi. 540. 
WESTERN and Centra HIMALAYA ; from Murree to Nipal, alt. 6-10,000 ft. 
Stem strict, erect, slender for tho height of the plant. Leaves very variable in 
length and breadth, tip and teeth apiculate. Heads peduncled, erect; receptacle very 
narrow, bristles longer than the achenes; corolla A in.; anther-cells fimbriate, 
Achenes 3-5 in. long, top much cupped ; pappus white, 11 in. 
Van. brachycephala ; leaves very scabrid above, heads 4 in. long fewer on shorter 
branches more rounded at the base, invol. braets shorter inner more ovate, corolla and 
pappus-hairs $ in.— Kashmir, Stewart; Mozufferabad, at the foot of the Kashmir 
hills, Falconer. The few short broad flat heads of this look different from those of 
S. albescens, but there are many intermediate forms. I have seen no achenes. 
*** Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, cottony or tomentose beneath; heads inclined 
nodding ; recept. bristles very long. 
31. S. hypoleuca, Spreng. mss. in DC. Prodr. vi. 541; stem simple or 
branched above leafy, leaves lyrate or lyrate-pinnatifid sinuate-toothed glabrous 
above cottony or white beneath membranous terminal lobe large deltoid acute 
lateral generally one pair triangular acute, heads 13-2 in. diam. globose nodding, 
invol. very broad and open bracts lanceolate acuminate ciliate, recept. bristles 
exceeding the clavellate pappus, achenes short 4-angled tubercled, pappus single. 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 294. Carduus auriculatus, Wall. Cat, 2899, Aplotaxis 
auriculata, DC. J. c. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 7-13,000. 
Stem rather slender, 2-5 ft., glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 3-8 in., variable in 
breadth, petioled or sessile, petiole auricled at the base or not, terminal lobe sometimes 
5 in. diam. Meads long-peduncled, inclined or nodding, very many-fld., base often 
intruded ; invol. bracts often recurved; corolla 4 in, limb as long as the tube; 
anther-tails long, subulate, quite entire or split near the tip. Achenes 3 in. long, 
almost cubical, with obtuse angles, black, strongly tubereled, tip contracted with a 
terminal toothed cup; pappus 4 in. brown.— This and the following are quite unlike 
any other Indian species, and are the only ones with decidedly nodding heads. 
32, S. deltoidea, Clarke Comp. Ind. 235, var. a and B ; stem tall simple 
below branched above, leaves petioled membranous sinuate-toothed above 
glabrous or scaberulous beneath white-tomentose or cottony, lower lyrate-pin- 
natifid terminal lobe very large deltoid lateral variable, upper triangular ovate 
or deltoid, heads  -13 in. very broad nodding panicled or racemose on the branches 
of a terminal leafy panicle, invol. bracts hoary short ovate obtuse or long and 
lanceolate tips and margins purple, recept. bristles shorter than the pappus, 
achenes short 4-5-angled smooth tubercled or scaly, pappus single. Kurz in 
Journ. As. Soc, 1877, ii. 204. Aplotaxis deltoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 541. 
CENTRAL and Eastern HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 6-11,500 ft, 
ManrAPAN, or the Nattoung hills, F, Mason. 
