252 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Aster. 



KUMAON and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 11-14,000 ft., Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. Affghan 

 and Beluchistan, Central Asia, Altai' Mts., China. 



Stem 2-3 ft. and branches slender, green. Leaves \-2 in., sometimes contracted at 

 the base, nerves very obscure. Heads g- in. diam., peduncled or sessile ; invol. 

 bracts 5- in. ; lignles 20-30, short, blue, revolute when dry, sometimes 0. Achenes ^ 

 in. ; pappus rather longer. Lindley's Galatella juncea is founded on a cultivated 

 specimen of this from the Saharunpore Bot. Gardens, which is glabrous with linear 

 leaves and rounded branches; the achenes are immature, and I do not recognise the 

 difference from those of altoAcus pointed out by Clarke. A young specimen of A. 

 altaicus from Beloochistan presents the same characters. 



10. A. trinervius, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 61 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 433 ; glabrous or 

 scaberulous, slender, leaf} 7 , leaves sessile or petioled lanceolate obtuse acute or 

 acuminate coarsely serrate, heads corymbose, invol. bracts linear obtuse or acute, 

 ligules 12-15 short, achenes hairy, pappus reddish with a few short slender 

 outer hairs. Don Prodr. 177. A. scabridus, Hook. f. fy Thorns. Herb. Ind. Or.; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 47. A. Benthami, Steetz in Seemann Sot. Herald. 385. A. 

 asperrimus, Wall. Cat. 2970. Diplopappus asperrimus, DC. Prodr. v. 277 

 (excl. syn. Roxb.}. Galatella asperrima, Nees Aster. 173. Diplopappus laxus, 

 Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. i. 487. 



CENTRAL and WESTERN HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft. 

 MISHMI MTS. Griffith. KHASIA MTS., alt. 3-6000 ft. DISTRIB. Japan, N. China. 



Stem 2-3 ft., rarely almost glabrous, grooved, sometimes almost hispid. Leaves 

 1-4 in., very variable, rarely oblong and obtuse, base rounded or acute, usually 

 scabrid on both surfaces. Heads ^-| in diam.; ligules 10-12, white, narrow. 

 Achenes ~ in. ; pappus \ in. 



11. A. sikkimensis, Hook. f. # Thorns, in Bot. Mag. t. 4557 ; erect, 

 leafy, glabrous or puberulous, branches terete flexuous, leaves large sessile or 

 short-petioled lanceolate acuminate entire or subserrate membranous, heads 

 many small corymbose, invol. bracts linear acuminate, achenes hispid 4-ribbed, 

 pappus single white or reddish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 42. 



EASTERN NIPAL and SIKKIM, alt. 6-12,000 ft, J. D. H. 



Stems 3-4 ft., much branched, soft. Leaves 3-7 by -2 in., narrowed into the 

 broad short -fc-amplexicaul petiole, membranous. Heads | in. diam., very numerous, 

 on glabrous or very pubescent branches ; peduncles slender or stout ; ligules very 

 many, blue. Achenes in. ; pappus in. 



SECT. IV. Invol. bracts narrow or broad. Tall herbs with large leaves, 

 corymbosely branched stems above, the branches bearing single, rarely corymbose 

 very large heads. 



12. A. Thomson!, Clarke Comp. Ind. 48; laxly villous, erect, branched, 

 leaves subsessile broadly ovate acuminate coarsely serrate, heads few large long- 

 peduncled, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate acuminate, achenes hairy, pappus single 

 much shorter than the corolla reddish, hairs subulate. Callinieris flexuosus, 

 Royle in DC. Prodr. v. 258; Royle III 251, t. 58, f. 2. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Nipal to Kashmir, alt. 7-10,000 ft. 



An erect laxly branched herb, with flaccid hairs; branches slender, flexuous. 

 Leaves 2-4 by l-2 in., membranous, base contracted and ^-amplexicaul. Heads 

 solitary, 1^-2^ in. diam.; invol. bracts herbaceous ; ligules 20-30, -- 1 in. long. 

 Achenes ^-, much longer than the pappus, 



13. A. asperulus, Nees Aster-. 381 ; laxly hairy or glabrate, erect, 

 branched, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate acuminate coarsely serrate, heads 

 few large on slender peduncles, invol. bracts linear or lanceolate acuminate often 

 long and leafy, achenes hairy, pappus hairs white or reddish equalling the 

 corolla with a few short ones. Wall. Cat. 2908, A. peduncularis, Wall, Cat. 



