988 LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.)  [Hochstetteria. 
of pits often shortly paleaceous. Anther-bases sagittate, tails long, lanceolate. 
Style-arms linear, obtuse. Achenes turbinate, villous; pappus of 10 stellately 
spreading slender pales, margins below hyaline, above slender and barbellate. 
1. X. Schimperi, DC. Coll. Mem. ix. t. 6; Prodr. vii. 987; Boiss. FI. 
Orient. iii. 219; Clarke Comp. Ind. 246. 
Scinp, Dalzell.—DisTu1B. Arabia, Nubia. e 
Nearly glabrous, 1-2 ft. ; branches slender, erect or ascending, nearly smooth, fur- 
rowed. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate or elliptic, acute, serrulate; nerves very slender, 
Heads }-} in. diam., involuerate by 1-2 small leaves; invol. bracts straight, very 
rigid, l-nerved; corolla } in. Achenes Ae in., turbinate, covered with long brown silky 
hairs; pappus pales narrowly subulate-lanceolate, ineurved, membranous, hyaline, un- 
dulate with a strong midrib, 
100. AZNSLIIEA, DC. 
Subscapigerous, erect, perennial, simple or branched herbs. Leaves alter- 
nate, chiefly radical. Meads small, sessile or peduncled, solitary fascicled racemed 
anicled or spicate, on a single strict slender flowering stem, often pendulous, 
1omogamous, discoid, white or purplish, 1-4-fld ; fl. 5, all fertile, slender ; limb 
not dilated, unequally 5-partite. — Znvolucre narrow ; bracts  -seriate, laxly im- 
bricate, rigid, inner elongate, outer shorter, Anther-bases sagittate; tails long, 
bearded. Style-arms narrowly cuneate, tips spreading rounded. Achenes ob- 
lanceolate, subcompressed, ribs 0 or 5-10, hairy; pappus bristles 1-seriate, 
feathery.—DisrRI». Species 10, Himalayan, Chinese, and Japanese, ; 
1. A. pteropoda, DC. Prodr. vii. 14; more or less tomentose cottony or 
hairy, leaves ovate or cordate acute or acuminate suddenly narrowed into 
a broadly winged petiole, heads in tall strict spikes or lax elongate panicled 
racemes, achenes 10-ribbed. Clarke Comp. Ind. 246. A. silhetensis, Clarke in 
Journ. Linn, Soc, xiv. 411; Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, ii. 205. Vernonia 
lobelioides, Wall. Cat. 2027. Liatris lobelioides, Wall. mss. — Perdicium triflo- 
rum, Ham. mss.  Prenanthes ? Candolleana, Wall. Cat. 3280, in part. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Bhotan and the Mishmi hills, alt. 5-8000 
ft. Kuasta Mrs., alt. 56-7000 ft. Manrranan and Tenasserim, Kurz; top of Mooleo, 
alt. 7000 ft., Parish. 
Leaves 2-5 by 13-3 in., membranous or rather thick, sparsely hairy glabrate or 
white-tomentose beneath, obscurely crenate ; petiole as long as the blade. Flowering 
stem 1-3 ft., with few small lanceolate leaves, cobwebby cottony or glabrous, rarely 
branched or forked at the base; heads 3 in. long, solitary or fascicled on the stem or 
on alternate short spreading lateral branches, 3-fld. ; invol. bracts lanceolate, Achenes 
1 in., oblanceolate, softly silky ; pappus 4 in., pale brown. 
2. A. angustifolia, Hook. f. $ Thoms. mss. ; sparsely hairy, leaves ob- 
lanceolate acute narrowed into a long petiole obscurely toothed, cauline sessile, 
heads racemed on the short branches of a long slender panicle, achenes obscurely 
ribbed. Clarke in Journ. Linn, Soc. xiv. 412; Comp. Ind. 947. A. glumacea, 
Klatt in Sitzungsb. Münch, Akad. 1878, 97. Prenanthes ? Candolleana, Weil. 
Cat. 3280, in part. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft., De Silva, &c. 
A smaller and more delicate plant than A. pferopoda, with narrower leaves, never 
abruptly narrowed nor tomentose beneath ; heads much smaller, 1-1 in. long ; peduncles 
and pedicels very slender; achenes 2 in., silky; pappus as long, brown, 
3. A. aptera, DC. Prodr. vii. 14; villous pubescent or glabrate, leaves 
long-petioled triangular- or orbicular-cordate acute sinuate-lobed or -toothed, 
