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Creyis.] LXXVII. compositz. (J. D. Hooker.) 397 
Root-stock long, creeping, sometimes divided. Leaves 3-13 in., rather succulent, 
tip broad rounded or acute. Scapes or peduncles shorter than the leaves, pubescent 
or glabrate. Heads quite glabrous, 20-30-fld.; inner invol. bracts 10-12, green, or 
the overlapped edges pale. Closely allied to C. depressa. 
11. €. depressa, Hook. f. $ Thoms.; perennial, stemless, puberulous, 
leaves rosulate very stoutly petioled ovate or rounded obscurely toothed or 
sinuate-toothed 5-nerved from near the base, heads crowded amongst the radical 
leaves 4 in. long-peduncled bracteolate, invol. bracts strap-shaped obtuse or sub- 
acute nearly glabrous, achenes very slender fusiform beaked ribbed quite smooth 
shorter than the white smooth pappus. C. glomerata, Clarke Comp. Ind. 255, 
evel. syn. 
Sıkım HIMALAYA ; near the Tibetan frontier, alt. 15-17,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Root as thick as the little finger and crown woody. Leaves 1-2 in. long, rather 
fleshy, base rounded; petiole as long or shorter, very thick. Heads very numerous, 
invol. bracts green, inner with scarious margins, base rather thickened in fruit, 
glabrous or with a few hispid hairs. Achenes } in., dark brown with a pale beak; 
pappus 4-3 in. 
Secr. IV. Hieraciocides. Heads rather broad, panicled or racemose ; 
outer invol. bracts very short, inner linear l-seriate. -Achenes small, slender, 
narrowed at both ends; pappus hairs brownish, rigid, brittle. 
12. C. silhetensis, Mook. f.; quite glabrous, radical leaves persistent 
linear-lanceolate finely acuminate narrowed into a short petiole quite entire or 
obscurely toothed, flowering stem sparingly dichotomously branched, branches 
slender erect, heads numerous panicled 4 in. diam., peduncles slender, outer 
invol. bracts very small, inner linear subacute, achenes slender glabrous narrowed 
upwards ribbed about equalling the brown rigid pappus. Hieracium silhetense, 
DC. Prodr. vii. 218; Clarke Comp. Ind. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 411, 257. 
Prenanthes ? Candolleana, Vall. Cat. 3280, in part. Conyza foliolosa, Wall. Cat. 
3281, in part. 
Kuasia Mrs., alt. 4-6000 ft., common. BIRMA and Tenassertm, Kurz. 
Perennial; rootstock stout, woody. Leaves 6-12 by }-1} in., very much narrowed 
at both ends. Flowering stems often twice as long as the leaves, slender, with small 
leaves at the forks. Heads yellow, panicled, peduncles with usually a small bract. 
Achenes 4; in., pale brown ; pappus rather scanty.—A very anomalous plant, with the 
habit, absence of stellate hairs, and the achenes of Crepis, but with the brittle brown 
pappus of Hieracium. 
13. C. racemifera, Hook. f.; perennial, glabrous or puberulous above, 
stem strict simple or branches erect, leaves scattered petioled ovate or ovate- 
lanceolate sinuate-toothed, petiole winged, heads in unilateral racemes, achenes 
much shorter than the pappus. Crepis, No. 6, Herb, Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
Sixxr« HıMaALAYA ; towards the Tibetan frontier, alt. 8-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Stem 6-18 in., very slender, from a small perennial rootstock. Leaves few, 1-21 
in., acute, membranous, lower and middle cauline long-petioled, petiole not auricled at 
the base, upper sessile. acemes strict, nearly leafless, with minute bracts at the base 
of the peduncles, which are erect, curved at the top, and usually 1—2-bracteolate ; 
heads campanulate, 3-3 in. diam., horizontal or drooping; outer invol. bracts very 
small, inner 6-10 linear acute glabrous, all green, blackish when dry; ligules yellow. 
Achenes quite immature, apparently short and not beaked ; pappus not exceeding the 
involucre, pale brown, brittle.—4A very remarkable species, whose affinity is doubtful, 
but I think very near H. silhetensis, though differing in habit and inflorescence, 
Sror. V. Glomeratee. Meads very numerous and densely crowded, 
sessile or shortly peduncled on the dilated top of a simple villous club-shaped 
stem. 
