218 LXXVU. D1PSACE2E. (C. B. Clarke.) [Dipsacus. 



646. D. inermis, Wall, in Roxb. Fl 2nd., ed. Carey $ Wall i. 367, as to var. a 

 only ; Wall. Cat. 427, partly. D. auriculatus, Royle III. 245. 



NORTH- WEST HIMALAYA, alt. 7000 ft., from Chumba to Kumaon. 

 Stem often 6-10 ft., and then with 3-1 heads only. Probably a var. of D. 

 inermis. 



3. D. asper, Wall. Cat. 428; lower leaves pinnatifid with distant seg- 

 ments shortly pilose on both surfaces and scabrous beneath, heads subglobose, 

 bracteoles obovate-oblong shortly mucronate, corolla white. DC. Prodr. iv. 

 646. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. ; common. 



Closely resembling D. inermis ; the leaves are more hairy above, and on the nerves 

 beneath nearly bristly. 



4. D. atratus, H.f. fy T. ms. ; leaves pinnatifid or the upper trifid hairy 

 on both surfaces, heads subglobose, bracteoles obovate-oblong with a lanceolate 

 very hairy mucro, corolla intense blue-black. 



STKK.IM HIMALAYA, alt. 10-12,000 ft. ; Yeumtong and Lachen, J. D. ff., Elwcs. 



Closely allied to D. inermis. Stem villous, as well as bristly. Leaves with larger 

 hairs than D. inermis. Bracts ovate or oblong, obtuse ; bracteoles blackish. Corolla 

 only slightly pilose without. 



5. D. Leschenaultii, Coult.-, DC. P)-odr. iv. 647; leaves pinnatifid 

 lowest elongate with numerous approximate upper segments hairy on both sur- 

 faces, heads subglobose, bracteoles obovate-oblong with long-lanceolate densely 

 hairy mucros, flowers white. Wight. III. 1. 130 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 445. Scabiosa 

 Brunoniana, Wall. Cat. 429. 



MTS. of the SOUTH DECCAN, alt. 7-8000 ft. ; Neilgherries and Pulneys, frequent. 



Lowest leaves often a foot or more by 3 in. ; terminal lobe oblong, with numerous 

 approximate falcate-oblong lobes next to it, with longish hairs on both surfaces ; 

 otherwise undistinguishable from D. inermis. 



6. X>. Walkeri, Am. Pugill. PI. Ind. Or. 26 ; bracteoles obovate-oblong 

 with short-lanceolate sparsely hairy mucros, otherwise as D. Leschenaultii. 

 Wight. Ic. t. 1166. D. Leschenaultii, Thwaites Enum. 160. 



CEYLON, alt. 6-7000 ft. ; frequent. 



Dries blackish, while D. Leschenaultii dries green ; the two are hardly distinct, 



4. SCABIOSA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, never bristly nor prickly. Leaves opposite, un- 

 divided, lobed or pinnatifid. Heads bracteate ; bracteoles (scales of the recep- 

 tacle) small or 0, or (in non-Indian species) herbaceous. Involucel 2-8-ribbed, 

 adnate to the pericarp ; limb generally expanded, broad funnel-shaped. Calyx- 

 limb with short teeth and generally with long bristles. Corolla tubular ; limb 

 4-5-fid, equal or, especially in the ray flowers, obliquely expanded. Stamens 4, 

 perfect. Style filiform; stigma capitate or subpeltate, sometimes sublateral. 

 Achene crowned by the persistent scarious expanded limb of the iuvolucel, and 

 by the persistent, usually aristate, calyx-limb. DISTRIB. Species 80, chiefly 

 European, West Asiatic, and African. 



SECT. I. PTEROCEPHAxys. Bracteoles narrow. Involucel-mouth short, 

 ciliate, pubescent. Calyx-limb of 12-24 long bristles. Corolla 5-fid. 



1. S. Kookeri, C. B. Clarke ; hairy, scapose, leaves linear-spathulate 

 runcinate or subentire, corollas all subequal exceeding the calyx-bristles. 



