380 LXXVII, COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Tricholepis. 
tary, peduncled, homogamous; flowers all 9, similar, fertile, yellow red or 
purple, regular or suboblique, tube slender, limb 5-cleft to the middle. Involucre 
ovoid or broader; bracts oo-seriate, very narrow, usually with long recurved 
hair-points or mueronate, the outer shorter; receptacle densely bristly, Fila- 
(ments papillose ; anther-bases sagittate, auricles connate, tails slender lacerate. 
Style-arms slender. Achenes glabrous, oblong or obovoid, smooth, ribbed, basal 
areole lateral, terminal areole small or broad; pappus bristles oo -seriate and 
very unequal, serrulate barbellate or feathery, long and slender or short and 
paleaceous, or 0.—Disrrr. Species 7, all Indian or Affghan. 
* Pappus hairs scabrid, connate, not or slightly flattened below ; corolla yellow. 
1, T. Karensium, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii, 318, 1877, ii. 202 ; 
, 
tall, erect, woody, villous above with 1-3 heads, upper leaves 3-4 in. lanceolate 
entire or denticulate puberulous or cottony beneath, heads 28 in. diam. very 
large bracteate by the upper leaves, invol. braets innumerable elongate-subulate 
spreading and incurved rigid white, recept. bristles linear equalling the feathery 
pappus, achenes oblong 4-5-ribbed smooth, pappus hairs barbellate connate at 
the base, outer short. Clarke Comp. Ind. 238 (T. Karensis). 
Brrma; Karen hills, O'Riley §& Mason, 
Much the largest Indian species, I have seen only a very imperfect’ specimen, 
and have taken the characters chiefly from Clarke: the invol. bracts are quite acicular, 
in very many series, the inner gradually longer, innermost 1} in., outermost à in, 
all rigid but not pungent, densely ciliate with spreading hairs. 
2. T. furcata, DC. Prodr. vi. 563; glabrous or puberulous, branched 
from the base, branches elongate ending in a long-peduncled head, leaves shortly 
petioled elliptic or lanceolate acute or acuminate denticulate covered with raised 
points or scaberulous above and beneath or pubescent beneath, heads 14 in. 
nodding ebracteate, invol. bracts acicular or filiform from a lanceolate base re- 
curved ciliate tips black, recept. bristles shorter than the narrowly oblong ribbed 
smooth achenes, pappus hairs scabrid connate at the base, outer i foren Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 238. it nigrescens, Edge, in Trans, Linn, Soc. xx. 77. Carduus 
trichocephalus, Wall. Cat. 9901. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 5-10,000 ft. 
Stem 2-6 ft. slender. Leaves 2-6 by 14-2} in., smooth or seaberulous above. 
Invol. bracts very spreading in fruit; corolla 1-1 in, nearly straight, yellow; anther- 
tails subentire. Achenes ! in., pale, compressed ` pappus hairs very slender, soft, inner 
1 in., white.—I can detect no character whereby to separate 7. nigrescens ` tho amount 
of ciliation of the bracts varies greatly, 
9. T. Stewartei, Clarke mss.; branches rigid leafy, leaves sessile lanceo- 
late acuminate minutely toothed quite glabrous veins indistinct, heads shortly 
peduncled 1 in. diam., invol. bracts acicular from an ovate woolly base pale, 
recept. bristles longer than the achenes, pappus rigid. 
Ponsas ; in the Jhelum valley, Stewart. 
Apparently a very distinct species, of which I have seen onl tips of branches with 
imperfect flowers. Leaves 14 in., rather coriaceous. Invol. racts yellowish when 
dry, inner 3 in. long. Pappus } in, long, pale, brown, 
4. T. elongata, DC. Prodr. vi. 563; pubescent or scaberulous, stem and 
branches strict, leaves sessile linear oblong-lanceolate elliptic or oboyate acute 
or obtuse toothed serrate or distantly runcinate, heads 4-1 in. diam., inyol. bracts 
acicular from an ovate base ciliate tips black or not, recept. bristles longer than 
the 5-angled smooth pale achenes, pappus hairs in many rows short, inner flat- 
tened below. Clarke Comp. Ind. 289. Carduus elongatus, Wall. Cat. 2900, 
2909. T. lanuginosa, Klotzsch in Reise Pr. Wald. Bot. 79, t. 81. 
