398 LXXVIII., compositm. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Crepis 
14. C. glomerata, Dene. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 99, t. 107 (Prenanthes), not 
of Clarke; pubescent or villous, stem short soft simple clavate leafy, leaves obo- 
vate or linear-oblong entire sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, heads cylindric, outer 
invol. bracts 0 or 1-2 filiform, inner 3-6 linear- or broadly oblong obtuse, achenes 
cylindric-oblong obscurely constricted below the shining white reddish or blue- 
grey rigid pappus. ©, Hookeriana, Clarke Comp. Ind. 255, 
Western Tan, Jacguemont; Lahul, Captain Hay; Barji-kang (N. of Kumaon), 
alt. 14,000 ft., Strach. d Winterb. Stxxm; common near the Tibetan passes, alt. 
13-17,000 ft., J. D. H. 
Stem 1-6 in., densely or laxly villous, tapering into a fusiform root a foot long, 
soft, often 13-2 in. diam. at the truncate top. Leaves very variable, 1-6 by 4-} in., 
flaccid. Heads 50-100, forming a dense hemispheric mass mixed with filiform bracts 
which arise from the base of the very short peduncle, few-fld.; invol. bracts 1-4 in., 
variable in breadth, glabrous or villous, margins membranous; ligules yellow. 
Achenes Y in., many-ribbed, shining, brown; pappus } in. long, deciduous, hairs very 
variable in colour.—This is a very singular plant, the analogue of Saussurea gossypi- 
phora, which it entirely resembles in habit. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
CREPIS PonRIFOLIA, Don Prodr. 164; Barkhausia porrifolia, DC. Prodr, vii. 157 ; 
and Barkuavsta Hoster, DC. l.c., are very doubtful plants (see under Pterotheca 
F'alconeri and. Crepis Stoliczkai). 
100. PHFECASIUM, Cass. 
Annual or perennial erect hispid herbs, Radical leaves lyvate. Heads small, 
yellow, homogamous; fl. all ligulate. Involuere cylindric, calyculate, bracts 
l-seriate, fruiting with the midrib thickened below; receptacle flat, naked. 
Achenes terete with a broad base, finely striate, narrowed at the tip or beaked ; 
pappus copious, deciduous, or of the outer achenes scanty,—Disrrib. Species 2 
or 9, European and Oriental. 
1. P.lampsanoides, Cass. in Dict. Sc. Nat. xxxix. 987 ; annual, hispid 
or glabrate, leaves rosulate runcinate-pinnatifid, cauline few, base simple or 
sagittate, flowering stem corymbosely or paniculately branched, heads } in. long, 
invol, bracts narrowly lanceolate glabrous fruiting rigid, achenes very slender 
curved subterete pale smooth rather larger than the very soft white pappus. P. 
pulchrum, Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1431. Orepis pulchra, Linn.; DC. Prodr. 
vii. 160; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 846. C. youngiformis, Koch in Linnea, xxiii. 
690. Chondrilla pulchra, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 77. Youngia Kochiana, Ledeb, Fl. 
Ross, ii. 837. 
Western HIMALAYA; Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 7-8000 ft., Clarke, Watt.—Distrim. 
Westwards to the Atlantic. 
Stem 1 or many from the root, 12-18 in. high. Leaves very variable. Heads on 
slender divarieating peduncles; fruiting invol. bracts pale, incurved. Achenes + in, 
long.—This genus would be better reunited with Crepis as a section, ; 
110. PTEROTHECA, Cess. 
Annual subscapigerous hispid or glabrous herbs. — Leaves all radical, toothed 
or sinuate-pinnatifid. Meads subcorymbose, homogamous, yellow or red, all 
ligulate. Znvolucre tubular-campanulate; inner bracts 1-2-seriate, equal, nar- 
row, herbaceous, at length concave with the keel thickened, outer few small; 
receptacle with long hairs or bristles. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles acute or 
setaceous, Style-arms slender. Achenes slender, all subterete or the outer com- 
pressed, 8-10-ribbed, narrowed at both ends, glabrous, strongly 3-ribbed or 
