EE PLEM QUEM EM OTRA C 
Gerbera.] LXXVIII. composir#. (J. D. Hooker.) 391 
bracts, quite glabrous achenes, and pale pappus. Clarke observes that the female 
plant produces strictly cleistanthous heads with minute filiform corollas on shorter 
later peduncles. Not distinguished by Bentham (Gen. Pl. ii, 498) from Wallich’s 
Arnica nivea, which is G. nivea, Benth. 
** Ligules 0. 
5. G. macrophylla, Benth. in Gen. Plant. ii. 497 ; leaves large long- 
petioled sagittate abruptly acuminate denticulate appressedly cottony (rarely 
glabrous) beneath sometimes pinnatifid at the base, scape cottony ebracteate, 
invol. bracts acute glabrous, outer ovate, inner linear-lanceolate, achenes slender 
beaked almost glabrous, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 250. Chaptalia 
maxima, Don Prodr. 166, Bernieria nepalensis, DC. Prodr. vii. 18; Deless. Ic. 
Sel. iv. t. 77. Tussilago macrophylla, Wall. Cat. 2089, Perdicium semifloscu- 
lare, Ham. mss. in Don Prodr. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Dhotan, alt. 6-7000 ft. (to 10,000, 
Clarke). KnuasrA Mrs. ; alt. 4-6000 ft. 
Crown of rootstock and young leaves woolly. Leaves 5-12 by 21-7 in.; base 
truncate or cordate, angles acute obtuse or rounded, when pinnatifid lobes irregular, 
rarely more than 1 or 2 pairs, oblong, reaching as far as the margin of the terminal 
lobe, horizontal or deflexed, sometimes remote from the blade; petiole 3-12 in., 
cottony. Scape 6-18 in. Heads 1-1} in. diam.; invol. bracts pale or coloured; 
corolla 4-4 in. long. Achenes 4-$ in., obscurely puberulous, strongly ribbed ` pappus 
dirty-white or reddish, nearly $ in. long. 
Var. glabrata; leaves glabrous beneath.—Sikkim and Khasia, 
TRIBE XNIL.—CICHO RIACEJE. 
103. CICHORIUM, Lina. 
Erect, glabrous or hispid herbs with divaricate sometimes spinescent branches. 
Leaves, upper subentire, lower pinnatifid. Heads sessile on the branches or on 
thickened peduncles, homogamous, blue; fl. all ligulate. Jnvol. bracts, inner 
1-seriate, at length concave at the base with the outer flowers in the concavity, 
outer few shorter; receptacle flat, naked or subfimbrillate. Achenes glabrous, 
sub-5-angled, or the outer subcompressed and œ% -ribbed or striate, base con- 
tracted, tip truncate or the margin slightly produced ; pappus pales short, 2-3- 
seriate.—Distris. Species 3; temperate regions of the old world. 
1. C. Intybus, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 715 ; perennial, stem and leaf- 
nerves beneath hispid, leaves runcinate, heads solitary and terminal and axillary 
clustered, invol. bracts glandular-hispid much shorter than the corolla, pappus 
pale obtuse very short. DC. Prodr. vii, 84; Clarke Comp. Ind. 250. C. Cosnia, 
Ham in Wall. Cat. 3241. 
Norru Western IxprA; Kumaon (cult. or an eseape?).—DisrRrs. Westward to 
the Atlantic. 
Root fleshy, tapering. Stem 1-3 ft., angled and grooved; branches rigid, spread- 
ing. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, upper cordate-amplexicaul. Heads 1-1} in. diam., 
peduncle thickened in the middle; invol. bracts herbaceous ; ligules bright blue, 
rarely white or pink, truncate, 5-toothed. Achenes angled, pale, mottled.—The 
specimens are very indifferent and include some of the cultivated variety C. Endivia 
(the garden Endive), which is more glabrous. 
104. LAPSANA, Linn. 
Erect herbs. Leaves alternate, toothed or the lower pinnatifid. Heads 
small, loosely corymbose or panicled, yellow, homogamous; fl. all ligulate. 
