Plate 1731. 



INULA RHIZOCEPHALOIDES, Clarke. 



Composite. Tribe Inuloide^. 



I. rhizocephaloides, Clarice ; involucri bracteis angustioribus longi- 

 oribus apice coloratis, fioribus liguliformibus pappam paullo superanti- 

 bus, aehaeniis glabris. — Composite Indices, p. 124. 



Hab. Kurrum Valley, Afghanistan, Br. Aitchison, 942, 1879.— Dras 

 and Ladak, Western Tibet. 



The purple bracts of the involucre, short ray-flowers, and glabrous 

 acbenes are the chief points in which this differs from Inula rhwo- 

 cephala, Schrenk (Plate 1730).— W. B. Hemsley. 



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

 5. Part of style and stigma. 6. An achene. Enlarged. The achene drawn irom 

 specimen collected at Dras by Dr. Thomson ; all the rest from the Afghan specime 





