248 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Eltynclwspermum. 



16. RHYNCHOSPERIVIUirc, Eeinw. 



A slender puberulous herb with long spreading branches. Leaves alternate. 

 Heads email, axillary and in spreading leafy panicles, heterogamous, rayed ; 

 ray-fl. , 2-3-seriate, fertile, shortly ligulate, white ; disk-fl. $ , fertile, tube 

 short, limb campanulate 4-5-cleft. Involucre short ; bracts in few series, 

 lanceolate, margins scarious ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases obtuse or 2- 

 lobed. Style-arms of flattened; tips short, broad, obtuse. Achenes com- 

 pressed, beaked, beak short in the disk, longer in the ray; pappus of 3-5 

 caducous bristles or 0. 



1. XI. verticillatum, Reinw. mss. ; Blume Bijd. 902 : Clarke, Comp. 

 Ind. 39. Leptocoma racemosa, Less, in DC. Prodr. v. 280. Lavenia rigida, 

 Wall. Cat. 3215. Carpesium racemosum, Wall. Cat. 3201, in part. Zollingeria 

 scandens, Schultz-Bi}). in Flora, 1854, 275. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 5000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 6000 and 

 Bhotan. KHASIA MTS., alt, 5000 ft. BIRMA. DISTRIB. Malay Isld., Japan. 



Stems 2-3 ft., branches very slender. Leaves 1-3 in., membranous, petioled, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, entire or coarsely toothed, narrowed into a very slender petiole. 

 Heads in. diam., on short, rigid, stout, axillary often bracteate peduncles, often one 

 in every axil along the branches. 



17. L/iGENOFHORA, Cass. 



Scapigerous herbs. Heads small, solitary, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-fl. 5 , 

 1 -3-seri ate, fertile ; ligule white, long or short ; disk-fl. $ , often sterile, tubular, 

 limb 5-cleft. Involucre short ; bracts sub- 2-seriate ; receptacle convex, naked. 

 Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of ^ narrow, flattened, tips triangular 

 or lanceolate. Achenes of ray compressed, beaked, margins thickened ; of disk 

 similar, often narrower and sterile ; pappus 0. DISTRIB. Species 11-12 Aus- 

 tralian, 1 Asiatic, 1 S. American, 1 Sandwich Isld. 



1. Zi. Billardieri, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. v. 307: pubescent, leaves radical 

 or subradical oblong or obovate sinuate-toothed pubescent, scape slender. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 173. L. sundana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 32. L. Harveyi, Thwmtes 

 Enum. 162. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 5-6000 ft. CEYLON, central province, alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTRIB. 

 Malay Islds. China. Australia. 



Hootstock with thick fibres. Leaves 1-2 in. Scape 34 in., slender. Heads ^ in. 

 diam. ; invol. bracts linear ; ligules white, short. Achenes obovoid oblong, beak 

 glandular. I follow Bentham and Clarke in reducing the Indian species to the Aus- 

 tralian, though differing greatly in the size of the head. 



IS. BRACKYCOItfE, Cass. 



Branched or scapigerous herbs, with the character of Laaenophora, except 

 that the ray-flowers are 1-seriate, and that there is sometimes a scanty paleaceous 

 pappus. DISTEIB. About 40 species, Australian and New Zealand, with one S. 

 African. 



1. B?. assamica, Clarke Comp. Ind. -40; glabrous, almost shrubby, 

 branches sharply angled, leaves alternate sessile linear dilated upwards, heads 

 small terminal solitary, invol. bracts elliptic or ovate margins scarious, achenes 

 terete striate narrowed above and beaked, pappus 0. ? Synanthera, Wall. Cat. 

 7134. ? Epaltes linearifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 461. Ethulia divaricate, Wall. Cat. 

 98, ex DC. 



UPPEE ASSAM ; in the Dihong river, on stones. 



