Solidago.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 245 



flattened, tips lanceolate. Achenes subterete or angled, 8-12-ribbed ; pappus- 

 hairs 1-2- seriate, slender, scabrid. DISTRIB. Species about 80, chiefly N.. 

 American, one of them cosmopolitan in the N. temp, regions. 



1. S. Virgfa-aurea, Linn. ; DC, Prodr. v, 338 ; glabrous or pubescent, 

 stems erect stout subsimple 6-24 in., lower leaves petioled ovate or oblong sub- 

 serrate, upper smaller narrower entire, heads 1-4 on short axillary peduncles 

 collected in a long " leafy panicle, in vol. bracts narrow acute, ray-fl. about 8, 

 achenes glabrous or pubemlous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 35. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir eastwards, alfc. 5-9000 ft. KHASIA Mis., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Europe, Temp. Asia and America, Hongkong. 



YAR. 1. leiocarpa, Benth. Fl. Hongk. ] 79 ; var. glabriuscula, Clarke 1. c., glabrous 

 or nearly so, achenes glabrous. Kashmir to Nepal. Amphiraphis leiocarpa, Benth. 

 in Hook. Lond. Journ. Sot. i. 488. 



VAR. 2. ptibesce-ns, Clarke 1. c. ; pubescent, achenes puberulous, at least when 

 young. S. pubescons, Wall. Cat. 3226. S. nepalenhiis,.Z>o7i Prodr* 177. Amphiraphis 

 pubescens, DC. Prodr. v. 343. Nipal to Khasia Mts. 



12. mCXXROCEPHAXiA, DC. 



Annuals. Leaves alternate, toothed, lyrate or pinnatifid. Heads very small,. 

 panicled, heterogamoua, globose or hemispheric, not rayed ; outer fl. oo-seriate, 

 $ , fertile, slender, rigid', 2-3-toothed or cleft; disk-fl. $ , fertile, narrow, 4-5- 

 toothed.. Anther-bases truncate. Style-arms of $ short, flattened, tips lanceo- 

 late. Achenes compressed : pappus 0,.or in g of 2. minute bristles. DISTRIB. 

 Species 5, Asiatic and African. 



* Receptacle much elevated. 



1. D. latifolia, DC. in Wight Cimtrib. fl ;. Prodr. v, 372 1 ; annual, erect 

 or spreading, glabrous pubescent or villous, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate 

 entire pinnatifid or lyrate, terminal lobe broadly ovate coarsely toothed, heads 

 in. diam. globose, ray-fl. filiform curved obscurely toothed. Dalz. ty Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 1 24 ; Wight Ic. t. 1096 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 36. D. gracilis and 

 sonchif'olia, DC. I. c. 371, 372. D. nilagirensis, Schultz-Bip. in PI. Hohenack. 

 n. 1035. Cotula sinapifolia, Roxb. Hart. Beng. 63 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 437 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 3237 excl D. 0. bicolor, Roth Cat. Bot. 'ii. 116. C. latifolia, Pers. Syn. 

 ii. 464. Grangea latifolia, Lamk. III. t. 699. Hippia bicolor, Smith in Recs 

 Cyclop, xviii. Ethulia integrifolia, Don Prodr. 182. 



TROPICAL and SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Simla, alt. 9000 ft. to Sikkim, 

 ascending to 8000 ft. KHASIA MTS., CACHAR, BIRMA and the MALAY PENINSULA. 

 WESTERN PENINSULA; on the Ghats from Bombay southwards. DISTRIB. Tropical 

 and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



A weed 12-24 in. high. Leaves very variable.. Heads on slender divaricating 

 peduncles, yellow or purplish. Corolla of the ? very slender, .sometimes green and 

 persistent. Achenes ~ in., smooth. 



2. p. chrysauthemifolia, DC. in Wight CowW..ll; Prodr. v. 3-72 ; 

 erect, stiff, pubescent or hispid, branches divaricate, leaves oblong or. obovate 

 coarsely serrate or pinnatifid, heads long-peduncled -| in., diam. globose or 

 oblong, ray-fl. short 4-fid. Wight Ic. t. 1095 ; Clarke Comp.. Ind. 36. D. 

 oblongata, "Sth. in Gen. PI. ii. 260. D. tanacetoides, Schultz Bip..in. Miq. FL 

 Ind. Bat. ii. 38. D. grangese folia, DC. I. c. 372. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA, Royle ; Simla, alt. 6-7000 ft., Edgeworth, Thomson. NIL- 

 GHERRY MTS., alt, 7000 ft., Wight, &c. DISTRIB. Java, Trop. Africa. 



Different in habit from D. latifolia, being very rigid, often hoary, with smaller 

 leaves and larger heads on peduncles often 2 in. long. Heads purple. Corolla of. 

 ray-fl. shortly funnel-shaped, deeply 3-5-cleft. 



