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Jurinea.] LXXVII. composite. (J. D. Hooker.) 379 
slender l-headed cottony peduncles, leaves sessile decurrent lanceolate acute 
quite entire or sinuate-toothed, heads 1 in. diam., invol. bracts appressed, outer 
ovate acuminate lanceolate green with scarious margins, inner elongate, recept. 
bristles half as long as the involuere, anther-tails subentire, achenes obconic 
compressed angles thickened pale smooth shining, pappus hairs many-seriate very 
unequal rough persistent. 
Western Puxsas; Peshawur, Vicary.—Disrrie. Affghanistan. 
Whole plant 6-12 in. high. Leaves 2-3 in. Heads pale; invol. bracts sparsely 
cottony, inner sometimes red ; corolla 4 in.; tube very slender, limb inclined, Achenes 
1 in., crowned with the stout thickened base of the style; pappus 4 in., white, shining, 
innermost hairs very stiff, two much longer than the others and flattened.— Boissier's 
deseription is drawn up from very imperfect materials, The basal areole of the achene 
refers this plant to Jurinea, but it is a Serratula in habit. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
J. noscrATA, Klatt in Sitzungsb. Münch. Akad. 1878, 96; from the Punjab and 
Kashmir. The few words of description does not enable me to say whether this is à 
Jurinea or not; the appendaged invol. bracts produced into a long spine are unlike 
those of any Indian species. 
J. GNAPHALIOIDES, Klatt Le: also from the Punjab.— This also is undeterminable 
from the meagre description. 
92. SER R ATULA, Linn. 
Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, toothed or pinnatifid. Heads corymbose, 
subsolitary, homogamous ; flowers all 3, similar, purple violet or white, all sub- 
oblique or regular, tube slender, limb elongate 5-fid.  Involucre ovoid or globose ; 
bracts oo -seriate, inner narrow elongate, outer shorter broader acute or awned 
not spinescent rarely obtuse or with a laneeolate appendage; receptaele bristly. 
Filaments glabrous; anther-bases sagittate; auricles connate, shortly mucronate 
or tailed, Style hairy or with a hairy ring below the slender arms. Achenes 
glabrous, oblong, subterete or obtusely angled, basal areole very oblique ; pappus 
bristles oo -seriate, rigid, serrulate, unequal, outer often very short.—DISTRIB., 
About 30 species, Europe, N. Africa, West Central and Alpine Asia. 
1. S. pallida, DC. Prodr. vi. 670; glabrous or scaberulous, stem simple 
or divided below, branches ending in long leafless l-headed peduncles, leaves 
polymorphous from broadly ovate or oblong and toothed to linear and deeply 
runcinate pinnatifid, heads 1-13 in. diam., invol. bracts appressed, outer ovate 
acute, inner linear-oblong with scarious obtuse tips, recept. bristles longer than 
the obovate obcompressed smooth pale achenes. ( larke Comp. Ind. 237, Cen- 
taurea pallida, Wall. Cat. 2983. 
WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 6-8000 ft. ; 
Stem 1-3 ft., simple or sparingly branched from the tomentose base, stout or slen- 
der, usually scaberulous or puberulous. Leaves glabrous or young pubescent, radical 
with long slender petioles, in the largest forms 8-12 by 5-6 in., acute or obtuse, 
sharply toothed, base entire cordate rounded acute or cut into short lobes; in more 
ordinary forms 4-6 by 1-2} in., deeply pinnatifid or runeinate, with a toothed termi- 
nal and oblong or triangular acute entire or toothed lateral lobes; in smallest forms 
3-1 in. long. Heads broad; peduncle stout or slender, often 18 in.; invol, bracts 
glabrous; corolla $ in.; anther-tails short, entire. Achenes i in., obovoid-oblong, 
broad, flattened, pale, quite smooth, obscurely ribbed; pappus hairs rigid, 3 in., 
brown. 
93, TRICHOLEPIS, DC. 
Annual or perennial branched unarmed herbs. Leaves entire toothed or the 
lower pinnatifid, often with raised dots on the surfaces. Heads terminal, soli- 
