Scorzonera. | LXXVII. composit#. (J. D. Hooker.) 419 
crown, and have unripe achenes; they however entirely resemble Caucasian ones of 
S. purpurea. 
Secr. II. Pteracheenia, Benth. in Gen. Plant. ii. 532. Achenes 2-3- 
winged. 
3. S. Stewartii, Hook. f.; stemless, scapigerous, leaves linear or slightly 
dilated beyond the middle woolly or glabrate below, scapes usually shorter than 
the leaves naked, heads solitary tomentose or glabrate, outer invol. bracts ovate 
acute inner oblong-lanceolate, achenes linear-oblong with 2 broad or 3 narrower 
white wings, ribs echinate. 
The Dram: Peshawur, Stewart; low hills at Hurroo, Aitchison. 
Annual. Leaves 3-8 by 4L-& in., grassy, 3-nerved, subacute. Scape stout, erect 
or decumbent, ribbed. Heads 4-1 in. long; invol. bracts variable in length and 
breadth, shorter than the yellow ligules. Achenes linear or linear-oblong, 4 in. long, 
wings entire or toothed equalling or broader than the very narrow strongly ribbed 
dark body of the achenes; ribs with an irregular row of horizontal spinules ; pappus 
reddish, as long as the achenes. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. ` 
S. BUPLEUROIDES, Don Prodr. 162; “ root fusiform, stem simple erect 1-fld. nearly 
1 foot high terete glabrous, leaves linear-lanceolate acute flat glabrous villous at the 
base shorter than the stem, invol. bracts longer than the yellow striate ligules, pappus 
unequal seabrid."—Alps of Nipal, Wallich.—I have no idea what this can be. 
121. EPILASIA, Bunge. 
Annual low herbs. Leaves chiefly radical, quite entire. Peduncles usually 
thickened and hollow. Heads terminal, homogamous; fl. all ligulate. Invo- 
lucre campanulate or ovoid ; bracts few, inner sub-2-seriate, outer 3-6, leafy erect 
or spreading ; receptacle flat, naked. -Achenes short, cylindric or subturbinate, 
10-20-ribbed, glabrous, base not contracted, areole hollowed, tip truncate and 
raised and dome-shaped within the pappus; pappus dark brown, most densely 
many-seriate, silky, hairs feathery a few longer the others with simple (not 
feathery) tips.—DrsrRIn. Species 5, Western and Central Asia, 
E. ammophila, Bye. in Relig. Lehm. 202; annual, glabrous, leaves 
very narrowly linear or dilated about the middle 3-nerved quite entire or 
obscurely serrulate, outer invol. bracts leafy spreading often much longer than 
the ligules inner ovate-lanceolate obtuse, achenes closely ribbed, E. Bungei,. 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 279. 
The Dain: Peshawur, Vicary, Stewart. Salt Range, Fleming; low hills at 
Rawul Pindee, Aitchison.—Disrri. Beluchistan, Affghanistan, Turkistan, 
Stemless or with a rather stout leafy stem 6 in. high. Leaves 1-4 by $-4 in., tip- 
obtuse cartilaginous. Scapes 1 or more, 2-6 in., stout, naked. Heads solitary 4-5 
in., campanulate ; outer invol. bracts very variable in length and breadth, sometimes: 
24 in. long and slender, at others short and broad, 3-nerved with cartilaginous tips; 
ligules blueish. Achenes i in. long, sometimes nearly as broad and then connate in 
pairs, about 20-ribbed, ribs obscurely erenulate.—Bunge describes the achene as 
retrorsely seabrid, which is hardly the case in the Indian specimens, 
ORDER LXXVIIL* STYLIDIER. (DyC.PD. Clarke.) 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs. eaves alternate or falsely whorled, entire. 
Flowers in racemose cymes, panicles or corymbs; hermaphrodite or unisexual. 
Calyx adnate to the ovary ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip 3-, lower 2-lobed. Corolla 
* The numbering of the five preceding Orders, pp. 1, 17. 210, 215, 219, should be 
respectively 73, 74, 75, 76, 77. 
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