Aster.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 251 



6. A. tibeticus, Hook. f. ; pubescent or slightly villous, slender, erect, 

 sparingly leafy, radical leaves petioled lanceolate or oblanceolate obtuse or acute 

 quite entire, cauline sessile linear-oblong obtuse, heads solitary rarely 2-3, outer 

 invol. bracts linear acute pubescent or villous, achenes glabrescent, pappus double 

 white, outer hairs very few short subulate. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA and TIBET, Jacquemont ; Piti, Hanli Plains and Pangrong 

 Lake, alt. 15-16,000 ft., in salt grassy plains, Thomson, H. Strachey ; Laptal (N. of 

 Kumaon), alt. 15,000 ft., Sir. $ Wmt. (Diplopappus, No. 2.); Karakoram, alt. 

 14-15,000 ft, Clarke. 



Perennial, 4-12 in. high. Leaves small, radical 1-2 in. including the petiole. 

 Heads 1-2 in. diam. ; ligules very many, -| in. long, bright blue. Achenes very 

 small, flat, in. ; pappus in., hairs few slender. 



7. A. diplostephioides, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 272; erect, robust, 

 villous, stem simple leafy, leaves sessile erect lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate 

 acute quite entire, lower narrowed At the base, heads solitary 3 in. diam., invol. 

 bracts lanceolate leafy, outer often very long, ligules very long and narrow, 

 achenes silky, pappus reddish, outer very short white. Clarke Comp. 2nd. 45. 

 Heterochseta diplostephioides, DC. Prodr. v. 232* Diplopappus diplostephioides, 

 Herb. Ind. Or. Hf. Sf T. in part. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, alt. 8600-1 1,500 ft., Falconer, &c. ; Wurdwan, Lance ; 

 Kunawur, alt 14,000 ft., Thomson ; Kumaon, ait. 13,000 ft., Sir. $ Wint. (Stenactis 

 sp. 3) ; Sikkim, alt. 16,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A very handsome species, 12-18 dn. high. Leaves 2-3 in. Invol. bracts some- 

 times 1 in. ; ligules very many. Achenes in., and pappus no longer than in the 

 preceding. Thomson's Kumaon specimens have broader leaves than the others; Fal- 

 coner's Kashmir ones are more leafy. Aitchkon says the roots are used by the 

 Kashmiris for washing clothes. 



SECT. III. Invol. bracts in few or many series, narrow, dry or scarious, rarely 

 herbaceous. Heads small, corymbose or solitary, 



8. A. molliusculus, Wall. Cat. 2972 ; pubescent or sparsely villous, 

 stems many erect or ascending from a woody rootstock leafy, leaves subsessile 

 linear elliptic or obovate-oblong entire or toothed, heads long-peduncled solitary, 

 invol. bracts linear-lanceolate acuminate, ligules very many short slender, 

 achenes silky, pappus reddish, outer vry short white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 45. 

 ? A. scaposus, Klatt in Sitz. Munch. Akad. 1878, 84. Diplopappus molliusculus, 

 Lindl. in DC. Prodr. v. 277. Hersilia simplex, Klotzsch in Pr. Wold. Reis. 

 Bot. 75, t. 73. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Kashmir, alt. 5-8000 ft. TIBET (N. of 

 Kumaon), alt. 15,000, Sir. $ Wint. (Diplopappus, No. -3), and of Sikkim, J. D. H. 



Stems sometimes branched, 4-12 in., slender, rigid. Leaves \-\ in., acute or 

 obtuse, glabrous or scaberulous. Heads rarely 2-3, - in. diam. ; ligules 20-30, 

 re volute when dry. Achenes | in. ; pappus rather longer. Tibetan specimens are 

 short, prostrate, with linear leaves and larger flowers. It is difficult (if possible) to 

 distinguish this from Erigeron multiradiatns* 



9. A. altaicus, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 881 ; rigid, scaberulous, stem 

 grooved much branched leafy, leaves sessile linear or oblong obtuse quite entire, 

 heads solitary subcorvmbose, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate acuminate, achenes 

 silky, pappus single reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 46 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 158. 

 A. angustifolius, Lindl. in Royle III. 251, t. 58, /. 1. A. spartioides, Clarke I. c. 

 Callimeris altaica and canescens, Nees Alter. 228, 229; DC. Prodr. v. 258, 

 259. Hersilea ramosa, Klotzsch in Pr. Wald. R&is. Bot. 75, t. 73. Galatella 

 juncea, Lindl. in Royle III. 251, t. 58. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Lahul and Kashmir, alt. 9-13,000 ft., Jaeschke, &e.; 



