Puate 1975. 
INULA RACEMOSA, Hook. /. 
Compositz. Tribe INULOIDER. 
cml al 5-nervo: toe corollis acute 5-dentatis, 
ario 2-3-plo longiore wanes etis insequalibus minute parbel- _ 
latis, visio glabro angulato longitudinaliter striato. 
Has. Western Himalaya, Dr. Falconer, Dr. Thomson; Chin 
a: oo Patung District (cultivated as a drug), Dr. A. Honey 
No. 4928). 
Folia radicalia (in spp. himal.) 1-14-ped. longa in petiolam subsqui- 
longum angnstata ; folia begged tee capitulifera 4—6 poll. longa sessilia. 
Corolla ligulata radii 1-1} poll. longa. 
The specimen described in detail above is the Chinese one. Dr. 
ed supplies the oe note.—D. Otiver 
a Syereli for pushes, ‘hes root of spomens auriculata, DC., which 
is so largely imported into China by way of Calcutta and ‘Bomba 
from Cashmere. The name given to Inula racemosa, Hk. f., is k*wang 
ag “rig ie. Canton (but inland in Hupeh, meaning foreign) 
pute 
‘In Japan, Elecampane (Inula Helenium, L.) is cultivated under the 
name of tu mu-hsiang, or local putchuk. 
‘No donbt this plant also contains inulin in quantity; and i 
have been introduced into cultivation in China by the ov aad puke 
from India.’—A. Henry 
Fig. 1. Ray-floret. 2. Seta of pe ‘, . ee : ae 
Enlarged, y-flore eta of pappus. 3, Disk floret. 4. Anthers. 5. Stigma. 
