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ARTEMISIA PALLENS, Wall, ex Bess. 



Composite. Tribe Anthemide.e. 



A. pallens, Wall, ex Bess, in Nouv. M4m. Soc. A r at, Mom. iii. (1834) 



p. bo; ab omnibus speciebus annuis sectionis Abrotani phyllis 



capitulorum exterioribus interiora sequantibus vel superantibus et ut 



intermedins tenuiter hyalino-marginatis cieterum crassis herbaceis latis 

 concavis diversa. 



Herba annua vel biennis vel triennis, \-l ped. alta, tota lanuginoso- 

 canescens. Catdw crassiusculus, ramosus. Folia inferiora et inter- 

 media petiolo ad f poll, longo suffulta, ambitu rotundata, 2-pinnatisecta 



I T 1 P. ol \ lon ? a lata< l ue > P innis utrinque 3, laciniis linearibus obtusis 

 1^-3 tan. longis, supenora gradatim minora, minus dissecta, brevius 

 petiolata vel sessiha, summa lineari-oblonga vel subspatulata, dentata 

 vel Integra. Capifu la globosa 2-3| lin. diametro, in racemos compositor 

 vel paniculas foliatas laxe disposita, summa brevissime inferiora lon<n U 

 pedunculata vel ob folia ramorum sterilia vel substerilia specie pecfun- 

 culo 2-J poll, longo foliato suffulta; phylla circiter 15-20, extima 

 ublonga, obtusa, concava, crassiuscula, herbacea, maiirine tenuiter 

 hyahno tenuissime lanato-ciliato, intermedia perlata, cucullata vix vel 

 paulo breviora, flabellatim venosa, margine hyalino latiore, intima 

 minora, multo tenuiora; receptaculum nudum. Flares niarcrinales 

 feminei, circiter 1 lin. longi ; flores discoidei hermaphroditi,subcampanu- 

 lati, f lin. longi, omnes fertiles, glabri. Anfherce J- lin. long* eonnecti vo 

 in subulam tenuem paulo breviorem proclucto.— Wight, Contrib p >0 

 DC. Prodr. vi. p. 1 20. Clarke, Compos, hid. p. 1 63. Hook. f. Ft Brit' 

 Ind. id. p. 329. A. paniculata, Roxb. Hart. Beng. p. 61 ; Fl. Ind. iii! 

 p. 418 ; Icon, ined., non Lam. 



India : Cultivated in the Bombay and Madras Presidencies Wall 

 Cat. 3302; Herb. Wight, U63; Woodrow. 



The affinity of A. pallens does not lie with the other annuals of the 



section Abrotanum, but rather with A. jxdaica, Linn., a suffrutescent 

 species of Egypt, Northern Arabia, and Southern Syria, which has 

 rather similar involucre— although the bracts are smaller and thinner 

 and the outermost comparatively shorter - and very similar corollas and 

 anthers. A. pallens is extremely rare in herbaria, and hitherto has been 



