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Herba perennis, glabra vel sparse et minute hue illue pubescens’ 
radice abbreviata, fibris crebris pracdita. Caulis simplex, tenuis, 
erectus, flexuosus, leviter striatus. Folia petiolata [radicalia desunt, 
an marcescentia ?], membranacea, in pagina superiore viridia, 
scaberula, in inferiore pallida pulchre reticulata, puberula, utrinque 
venis — im editis (pagina inferiore ae ue manifestis) 
secunda, plus minus grease vel late patentia, circiter 7-flora, 
secus caulem ad 22°5 em, vel minus racemose disposita. Phyllaria 
quatuor, ligulato-lanceolata, externe minute puberula, erecta, apici- 
bus paullo recurvatis, Flosculi omnes tubulosi, tubo angusto, limbo 
longe campanulato, pallentes. Antherae brevissimae, caudatae, 
conspicuae. Achaenia subcylindracea, satis longa, glabra, pappo 
candido sericeo minute barbellato donata 
TisEet. Chumbi valley, pepeshong a about 3660 m., Dungboo ; 
Do Tho, July 30th, ae , King, 4683 
Sir George King r marks “ ‘Amongst the species described in the 
Fl. Brit. Ind, this fould fall between S. Se Hook. f. and 
Thoms., and S. chenopodifolius, DC. It is also allied to S. Zuc- 
carinii, by its deeply palmifid leaves.” The sc hossuoneed in 
S. Zuccarinii, Maxim., is very sy except in depauperated 
examples, but the present plant may be a reduced state of a pani- 
culate form also. From all states of S. Pactavint however, as well 
as from S, Przewalshii, Maxim., this is at once distinguished by the 
venation of the leaves, which in King’s species is cordato-palmate, 
or later broadly sagittate ; ; in the other two the branches are given 
off at an acute angle, with a much more widely curved periphery. 
S. tnlediioad! Hook. f. and Thoms., is very close to S. pelletfolius, 
but eads in the former are more numerous and smaller, the 
si flaraasenus more branched and frequently cleistogamous, and the 
leaves are not pinnatifid. S. acerifolius, C. Winkl., which has 
leaves of a somewhat similar fashion, belongs to a different section 
of the genus, 
605. Gerbera Lacei, Watt [Compositae — Mutisiaceae] ; nis 
G. macrophyllae, Benth., sed foliis cordatis lobis basalibus 1 andats 
facile distinguitur 
rha perennis, acaulis. Folia radicalia, coe 4-17°5 em. longis 
albo-tomentosis, laminis 5 g 5 em. latis cordato- 
ovatis vel ourlato-obiones beats vel gatetatia levissime sinuatis 
vel minute denticulatis supra glabris subtus albo-tomentosis. 
Pedunculi erecti, 14-60 em. longi, albo-tomentosi, ebracteati. Capi- 
tulum pide ees radiatum, 2°5-3°8 cm. diametro, album Invelucri 
squamae sub-4-seriatae, lanatae, sieabiones angustissime lineari- 
sabalatn: eo 1-0-1°6 em. longae, 1-5-2 mm. latae, a 
acutissimae, ciliatae. Flores radii involucro longiores. dehaen 
pubescentia. "Paypi setae scabrae, pallidissime fulvae. 
ortH-W Es? a Bashahr State : Baturing Forest, in the 
ae valley: 2440 ce, 364; Nachar Forest, 2590 m., Lace, 
Chamba State: Chine Forest, 1800-2130 m., Lace, 1712. 
