Ainsl æa. ] LXXVII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) . 989 
heads in interrupted spikes or spreading branched panicles, achenes obscurely 
ribbed. Clarke Comp. Ind. 247. 
TEMPERATE HiMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 5-8000 ft., ascending to 
10,000 in Sikkim. Kuasia Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft, J. D. H. 4. T. T. 
Usually a more robust plant than either of the preceding. Leaves sometimes 7 
in. long and broad, glabrous villous or densely silkily villous ; petiole 3-7 in., glabrous 
or villous. Flowering stem 1-3 ft., generally stout and red-brown. Heads 4-4 in. long, 
subsessile or on strict stiff slender peduncles, usually glabrous; bracts sometimes ` 
numerous, the outer small and imbricating along the peduncle; corolla j in. Achenes 
A in, like those of A. pteropoda, but less distinctly ribbed; pappus as long, brown.— 
Very variable in the number, length and breadth of the invol. bracts. 
4. A. Brandisiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 918 ; 1877, ii. 205 ; 
more or less hirsute, leaves petioled oblong acute quite entire base cordate 
margins villously fringed, heads in open branched panicles. Clarke Comp. Ind. 
247. 
Lower Birma; Karen hills, alt. 2-4000 ft., Kurz. 
Leaves 24-44 by 1-2 in., sparsely pubescent or glabrous above, sparsely hirsute 
beneath, densely so along the margins with curled hairs, base shortly cordate with 
rounded lobes and a very close sinus; petiole 1-2 in., stout, hirsute. Flowering stems 
12-18 in. pubescent or scabrid; heads long-peduncled, A-Z in. long; corolla j in. 
Achenes unripe, silky. 
101. CATAMIZXIS, Thoms. 
An erect undershrub. Leaves alternate, petioled, obovate or oblong, obtusely 
serrate. Meads small, narrow, in a broad terminal corymb, yellow ?, homoga- 
mous, few-fld.; fl. all 8, similar, ligulate and fertile. Involucre oblong; bracts 
few, oo -seriate, lanceolate, acute, outer shorter ; receptacle small, naked. Anther- 
bases sagittate, tails elongate barbellate. Style filiform, obtuse; arms very 
short, erect. Achenes narrowly turbinate, silkily villous; pappus hairs sub-2- 
seriate, slender, scabrid, outer shorter. 
1. C. baccharoides, Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc, ix, 949, t. 4; Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 248. 
Western HiwArAYA; Garwhal, on the Sewalik hills, Royle. 
Branches subsilkily pubescent. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1} in., coriaceous, narrowed into 
the short petiole, 4-amplexicaul, glabrous; nerves prominent on both surfaces when 
dry. Corymbs dichotomously branched; branches slender, puberulous, suberect ; 
heads j in. long; ligules spreading ; involucre much shorter than the flowers; corolla 
lin. Achenes 4; in. long; pappus ġ in., white. 
102. GERBERA, Gronov. 
Scapigerous herbs. Leaves radical. Scape naked or scaly, Heads solitary, 
heterogamous, radiate, rarely homogamous and discoid, yellow pink or white; 
ray-fl.,if present, 1-9-seriate, 9 and fertile; disk-fl. & , fertile; both 2-lipped, outer 
lip of ray-fl. with a 3-toothed ligule, inner 2-partite ; tips of disk-fl. more equal, 
outer 3-4-fid, innerentire or 2-partite. Involucre turbinate or broadly campanulate ; 
bracts 2-0 -seriate, narrow, acute, outer shorter; receptacle flat. Anther-bases 
sagittate, tailslong. Style-arms of D linear, obtuse. Achenes compressed ,5-ribbed , 
papillose, tip contracted or beaked ; pappus copious, hairs slender, smooth or scabrid, 
— Drsrnra. About 20 species, African and Asiatic, temperate or mountain, 
* Heads rayed. 
1. Œ. piloselloides, Cass; DC. Prodr. vii. 16; leaves shortly petioled 
elliptic or obovate-oblong obtuse quite entire villously hirsute beneath, scape 
