riATE 1730. 



INULA EHIZOCEPHALA, Sckrenk. 



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Composite. Tribe Inuloide^;. 



^ I. rhizocephala, Sckrenk ; foliis angustioribus ; involucri bracteis 

 viridibus, corollis liguliformibus pappo fere duplo longioribus, achaeniis 

 hirsutis.— Boiss. Fl. Or. iii. p. 196. 



Hab. Shah Junali, south of the Hindn Kush, at 11,000 feet : Gilgit 

 Expedition, Dr. Giles.— Persia, Af 



This and Inula rhizocephaloides, Clarke (plate 1731), are so much 

 alike as to be easily mistaken for each other, though distinguishable by 

 the characters given in the accompanying diagnosis. — W. B. Hemslet. 



Fig. 1. An involucral bract. 2. A ray-flower. 3. A disk-flower. 4. Anthers. 

 5. Upper part of style with stigma. 6. An achene. Enlarged. Figures 1-5 drawn 

 from Dr. Giles's specimens, and figure 6 from Griffith's Afghan plant, attached to the 

 same sheet in the Kew Herbarium. 





