Saussurea.] LXXVI. composit£, (J. D. Hooker.) 977 . 
Wallieh (doubtfully) and Clarke have united it ; it is, however, a much smaller plant, 
with exposed heads, narrower involuere bracts, inner pappus hairs united higher up 
and only } in. long; and the small achenes are more obeonie, 4; in. long, and often 
warted or wrinkled. "The wool is pink in Sikkim specimens. 
38. S. tridactyla, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hook. ; densely clothed with 
matted wool, stem 3-6 in. simple clavate leafy, leaves linear or linear-obovate 
or spathulate obtuse entire or obtusely 3-6-lobed at the apex densely woolly on 
both surfaces, heads partially exposed, invol. bracts linear-oblong acute shining, 
achenes narrow 5-angled, outer pappus 0 or of a very few scabrid bristles. 
Sort HiMALAYA ; on the Tibetan frontier, alt. 16-18,000 ft. o1 D. T. 
A much more woody-rooted plant than S. gossypiphora, with a woody stock, more 
densely leafy, and the leaves, which are covered with the same long matted wool as 
the stem, are quite entire or lobulate only towards the apex. The heads and flowers 
resemble closely those of 5. gossypiphora, but the pappus, whieh is pale brown, is 
almost invariably single. 
39. S. sorocephala, Hook. f. $ T. in Clarke Comp. Ind. 226; dwarf, 
densely tufted, stem 0 or very short thickly woolly or cottony, leaves 3-1 in. 
obovate-lanceolate or oblong-obovate subacute entire or obscurely toothed, 
heads exposed, invol. bracts lanceolate silky, achenes narrow 5-angled, outer 
pappus hairs scabrid many few or 0. Aplotaxis gnaphalodes, Royle Ill. 259, 
t. 59; DC. Prodr. vi. 542. A, andryalcides, DC. l.c. Haplotaxis sorocephala, 
Schrenk Enum. Pl. Nov. i. 43; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 678. 
Western Tirer, Kunawer, and Lauvt, alt. 14-18,000 ft.; from Nubra to the 
north of Kumaon, Falconer, &e.—DISTRIB. Altai Mts. 
A much smaller plant than any of the foregoing species of Eriocoryne, of tufted 
habit, the rootstock branching repeatedly ; the leaves vary greatly in length and form ; 
the flowering stem, when produced, is hollow at the top which is much dilated under 
the heads, as in its allies; the heads do not differ materially from those of S. gossy- 
piphora, but the bracts are very membranous and glabrous, or silky at the tips; the 
pappus is pale brown or dull blue; achenes not ripe. 
Var. ? glabrata; stem 1-2 in., leaves longer narrower toothed, cauline glabrous, 
floral woolly, outer pappus hairs 0 or deflexed on the achene.—Western Tibet, alt. 
15-18,000 ft., H. Strachey; Sassar, Thomson. 
90. GONIOCAULON, Cass. 
An erect glabrous branched annual; stem acutely 4-8-angled. Leaves nar- 
row, alternate, toothed. Heads narrow, fascicled and corymbose, homogamous : 
flowers few, all Ẹ , fertile and similar, tube slender ; limb longer, cylindrie, 5-fid 
to the middle or lower. Znrolucre oblong, base very narrow ; bracts oo -seriate, 
pale, very narrow, rigid, acute, erect, not spinescent, outer gradually shorter; 
receptacle very narrow, paleaceous. Filaments hairy; anther-bases sagittate, 
connate, tails short. Style-arms filiform. Achenes glabrous, oblong, indu. 
drie, about 20-ribbed, basal areole straight; pappus scales co-seriate, very 
unequal. 
l. G. glabrum, Cass. in Bull. Soc. Phil. 1818, and in Dict. Sc. Nat. xix. 
901. G. indicum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 236. _Amberboa indica, DC. Prodr. vi. 
558; Wight Ic. t. 479; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 131. A. Goniocaulon, DC. l. c. 
Athanasia indica, Roch, Fl. Ind. iii. 417; Wall. Cat. 2919. Serratula indica, 
Wall. Cat. 2919. 
CENTRAL Ixp1A and the Deccan ; from Banda and Indore, Edgeworth, southwards, 
especially in high lands lately under cultivation, Roxburgh. 
Stem 1-3 ft., strict, erect, ribbed on and between the angles, with a straight tap 
