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This plant was in a collection of 27 Tibetan drugs sent in 
1921 to Messrs. Burroughs and Wellcome by Col. R. 8. Kennedy, 
LM.S., D.S.0., M.C., and submitted by them to Kew in the 
condition in which they arrived, ie., small bundles of dry and 
very brittle plants. It has, however, been possible with care to 
restore the various species to a recognisable condition and even, 
as in this case, to make one the type of an undescribed species. 
As these plants are collected by Tibetans who visit localities 
near their homes as yet possibly unknown to Europeans and 
who collect moreover a mass of material with the fragments of 
fruit, and old and young leaves so valuable to the systematist, 
this small collection throws some light on the Autumn flora of 
Tibet. 
The Royal Geographical Society informs us that there is a’ 
Ye-pa 24 miles north of Lhasa, and it is possibly from a 
monastery situated there that the plants came. 
1043. Pulicaria lis, J. R. Drummond MS. ex Dunn; 
[Compositae-Inuleae]; e sectione nova Pentachaeta, Dunn, 
pappi interioris setis 5 plumosis distincta; a speciebus caeteris 
asiaticis pappo differt. 
Herba insignis, perennis, erecta vel adscendens, 10-15 cm. 
alta, omnino dense hirsuta. Radix valida, longa, verticalis, 
mm. crassa, ramosa, multiceps; radicis apices molliter 
lanati. Caulis foliosus, 1—3-capitatus, basi lanuginosus, foliis 
radicalibus vestitus et vetustorum vestigiis cinctus. Folia 
lata, in petiolum longe attenuata; caulina oblongo-ovata, acuta, 
sessilia, basi obtusa, semi-amplexicaulia. Capitula heterogama, 
radiata, 4-6 cm. lata, floribus in ambitu ? plurimis 1-seriatis, 
disci 3 fertilibus; pedunculi laterales, breves. Involucrum late 
campanulatum; bracteae multiseriatae, lineares, acuminatae, 
1-5-2 cm. longae, intimae scariosae, exteriores breviores. Recepta- 
culum planum, foveolatum. Corollae radii ligulatae, 2-3 cm. 
longae, | mm. latae, patentes; stylorum rami complanati, obtusi; 
disci, 3 tubulosae, 5-dentatae. Antherae inclusae, basi caudatae. 
Achaenia 2-2°5 mm. longa, costata, dense sericea. Pappus 
duplex; exterior e paleis 5 laceris 1 mm. longis, interior setis 5, 
6 mm. longis plumosis. 
Trpet. Gyantse Hills, 8.7.07. H. M. Stewart: Chaksam, 
Tsangpo Valley, 4310 m. 26. 9. 04, Col. L. A. Waddell: near 
Yerpa Monastery, N. of Lhasa, Aug. 1921, 4310 m., a Tibetan 
drug Ming-chen-serpo, comm. by Col. R. S. Kennedy 26. 
As observed by Bentham (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. ii. 335), 
Pulicaria hardly differs from Inula except in the nature of the 
pappus, the former has two series of hairs or scales, the latter 
only one, This species must for that reason be placed in 
Pulicaria, but the 5 plumose setae distinguish it from all other 
Asiatic species of that genus. As a section in Pulicaria it is 
equivalent in that respect to Jaubert & Spach’s ten-plumed 
section Decachaeta (Jaub. & Spach Il. Pl. Or. iv. 71, t. 344). It 
