Tas. 8774. 
SCABIOSA HooKeErt. 
Eastern Himalaya and Western China. 
DIPsACEAE, 
Scaprosa, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 159. 
* 
Seabiosa Hookeri, C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 218; 
species foliis omnibus subradicalibus pedunculis scapigeris efoliatis capitulo 
magno distincta. 
Herba scapigera perennis, usque ad 30 em. alta; rhizoma suberectum, vestigiis 
foliorum indutum, plerumque monocephalum, J olia subrosulata, adscen- 
dentia, ambitu oblanceolata, obtusa, basi in petiolum alatum attenuata, 
pinnatifida vel rarius integra, 15-20 cm. longa, 1°5-4 em. lata, tenuiter 
chartacea, utrinque longe pilosa, lobulis oblique ovatis apice rotundatis 
usque ad 6 mm. longis; costa infra lata, conspicua, nervis lateralibus 
inconspicuis. Pedwnculus monocephalus, usque ad 35 em, longus, basin 
versus circiter 5 mm. crassus, sicco sulcatus, inferne longe pilosus, superne 
villosus. Capitulwm subnutans, circiter 6 cm. diametro. Bracteae 
2-3-seriatae, lanceolatae vel ovato-lanceolatae, subacutae, 1‘8 em. longae, 
usque ad 7 mm. latae, longe ciliatae, dorso pilosae intus glabrae. 
Involucellus 2 mm, longus, villosus, apice undulato-dentatus. Calycis 
setae circiter 20, corollae tubo parum breviores, filiformes, plumosae. 
Corolla pallide violacea; tubus infundibuliformis, leviter obliquus, 1 em. 
longus, extra pilosus; lobi 5, patentes, rotundatae, 3°5 mm. longae. 
Antherae atro-purpureae, exsertae, 3°5 mm. longae. Stylus exsertus, 
glaber, stigmate depresso-globoso coronatus.—J, HurcHInson. 
The very attractive Scabiosa now figured was raised 
from seed presented to Kew by Mr. A. K. Bulley in 
1915. This seed had been obtained in Bhutan by 
Mr. Cooper when collecting there on behalf of Messrs. 
Bees, Limited. This species, S. /ookeri, was first col- 
lected by the late Sir J. D. Hooker in July, 1849, in the 
Sikkim Himalaya near Tungu at altitudes of 12,000- 
14,000 feet above sea-level. It was met with again by 
Mr. H. J. Elwes in 1877, and since then it has been 
gathered in the vicinity of Ta-chien-lu in Western 
Szechuan by various French and British collectors. 
This is by far the most handsome of the species of 
Scahiosa met with in the Himalaya, and is readily 
JuLty-SepremsBeER, 1918, 
