ICONES PLANTARUM. 5 
the flowers are so rotten that it is possible that some slight errors may have 
crept into the character given. The genus certainly connects the Helenioidee 
Tagetinee with the Senecionidee but appears to be most nearly allied to the 
former, notwithstanding the exceptional sete of the aa —G. Bentuam. 
Fig. 1. Involuere and receptacle, longitudinal section. 2. ret. 3. Summit of its 
oret. 
tyle. Disk-floret, with an peices seta of the pappus. 5. Tree of the stamens. 6. 
Samant of its style. 7. Unripe achen 
Puate 1106. 
BRACHYACTIS MENTHODORA, Benth. 
Composit®, Tribe ASTEROIDEA. 
B. menthodora, Benth. sp. nov. ; glanduloso-pubescens, caule e basi 
perenni erecto clato, foliis ovatis oblongisve dentatis, inferioribus longe 
petiolatis, superioribus angustis sessilibus, plerisque basi amplexicaulibus, 
receptaculo plano, ligulis stylo suo longioribus. 
Sikkim Himalaya, at an elevation ye 10,000 to 13,000 ft. The 
cer ge has a strong, sweet, mint-like scen 
aules 1-2-pedales, parum ramosi, demum glabrescentes. Folia radicalia 
ree in petiolum longum tenuem contracta ; caulina inferiora brevius petiolata, 
superiora 1—2-pollicaria, prope basin contracta, ima basi sepe amplexicauli- 
: : . Capit 
Involucri bractee 3-4 lin. longa, 2-3-seriate, parum inequales, herbace 
interiores margine scariose, una alterave exteriorum interdum magis foliacea 
et capitulo longiore. Receptaculum haud foveolatum. Corolle fl. 9 sub- 
appendicibus lanceolatis conan My @nia 
plano-compressa, basi contracta, apice rotundata, margine nerviformi cincta, 
faciebus ecostatis pilosis. foe ya achzenio ome um longior. 
Fig. 1. Involuere 2 “gr somes genoa section. 2. Ray-floret. 3. Summit of its 
style. 4. Disk-floret. 5. Thre of its stamens. 6. Summit of its style. 7. A seta of 
the pappus. 
Closely allied as this species is to several genera of <Asteroidea there was 
some difficulty i in fixing upon the one to which it should be referred, but 
upon the whole it appeared the nearest enka to Brachyactis, of which it has 
