50 Composites. \Crepis. 



5. S. corymbosus, Wall. Cat. tt. 31 21 (1828). 



5. arancosiis, var. corymbosus, Clarke, Comp. Ind. 182. C. P. 3894. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 351. Wight, Ic. t. 1130. 



A climbing shrub, differing from 5. Walkcj^i in having the 

 1. densely and permanently covered beneath with a grey or 

 cinnamon-coloured felt and the inv.-scales cottony-pubescent. 



Lower montane zone, 3000-4000 ft.; rare. Ambagamuwa (Thwaites); 

 Debedde, near Badulla. Fl. Jan., Feb. ; white. 



Also in the Nilgiris. 



Very near .S". IValkeri, but probably distinct. Clarke, however, com- 

 bines them. Thwaites had not seen the true plant when he published 

 his Enum. 



6. S. scandens, D. Do7t, Prod. Fl. Ncp. 178 (1825). 



.S". \Viiy;htiai^us., UC. in Wight, Contrib. 22. Thw. Enum. 167. 5. 

 campylocies, DC, var. Wighiianits, Clarke, Comp. Ind. 184. C. P. 1751. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 352. Wight, Ic. t. 1136 {S. Wightiamcs). 



Perennial, stems scandent, much divaricately branched, 

 very zigzag, grooved, glabrous or nearly so; 1. \\-2 in., sessile, 

 usually compound, with a large, narrowly triangular, very 

 acute, terminal Iflt, and 2 or 3 pairs of small, unequal, oblong 

 or linear Iflts., the basal pair stipule-like, stem-clasping, and 

 auriculate, all sharply dentate, glabrous, finely pellucid- 

 reticulate ; heads small, on long, slender, very divaricate 

 peduncles, in lax, rounded, terminal, or axillary infl., involucre 

 narrowly campanulate, bracts linear, acute, with membranous 

 margins, glabrous, ray-fl. about 8 ; achene compressed, 4- 

 anglcd, glabrous or with a few bristly hairs on ribs, pappus 

 white or yellowish. 



Moist region from 1500-4000 ft.; common. Fl. Jan., Feb.; yellow. 

 In the Himalayas and Nilgiris, and extending into China. 

 A very graceful and pretty plant, climbing by means of its zigzag 

 stems and branches. 



34. CREPIS, L. 



Annual or perennial herbs, 1. mostly radical, heads small, 



in large, terminal, corymbose cymes, involucre narrow, bracts 



few, erect, narrow, with a few very short ones at base, fl. few, 



all ligulate, bisexual, anth.-bases rounded ; achene narrowed 



at top but not beaked, ribbed, glabrous, pappus copious, white 



or grey. — Sp. 1 30 ; 14 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Both our species belong to Sect. Youngia., which in habit is more like 

 Lactuca than C refits. 



Heads ^ in. long; pappus white i. C. j.\ro\ic.\. 



Heads 3 in. long ; pappus smoky-grey . . . 2. C. fuscipappa. 



