296 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Inula. 



ligules ; achenes and pappus the same. The Moulmein specimen has very short 

 elliptic leaves 3 by 1 in., coriaceous, and scabrid above. 



17. I. cuspidata, Clarke Comp. Ind. 125; shrubby, branches glabrous 

 or young pubescent, leaves petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrulate 

 membranous glabrous or scaberulous above, heads numerous in terminal corymbs 

 | in. diam. on slender peduncles, invol. bracts linear acute pale rigid, outer 

 subulate, achenes silky. I. polycephala, Klatt in Sitzungb. Miinch. Akad. 1878, 

 85. Amphiraphis cuspidata, DC. Prodr. v. 343. Solidago cuspidata, Wall. 

 Cat. 3244. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



A nearly glabrous shrub, with rather slender branches. Leaves 3-5 in., always 

 acute at both ends, young softly pubescent ; petiole slender ; ligules broad revolute. 

 Achenes in. ; pappus in., yellowish, hairs thickened at the tip. A Simla specimen 

 from Major Madden has the leaves finely tomentose beneath. 



SECT. V. Xiimbarda. Heads panicled or racemed (solitary in /. granr 

 tioides). 



18. I. rubric aulis, Clarke Comp. Ind. 126; shrubby, branches and 

 leaves glabrous, leaves sessile elliptic-lanceolate acuminate serrate membranous, 

 heads f in. diam. 3-5 together in very short axillary racemes with tomentose 

 peduncles and slender pedicels, invol. bracts subulate-lanceolate acuminate or 

 aristate straight, achenes silky. Amphiraphis rubricaulis, DC. Prodr. v. 343. 

 Solidago rubricaulie, Watt. Cat. 3223. 



STJBTBOPICAL HIMALAYA ; alt. 3-6000 ft., from Kumaon to Sikkim. 



Shrub 3-6 ft. ; branches long, slender, flexuous. Leaves 4-6 by 1-1^ in., nerves 

 almost parallel with the margin. Corymbs not \ the length of the leaves, sometimes 

 racemed towards the ends of the branches ; invol. bracts green or purplish ; ligules 

 short, broad, revolute. Achenes ^ in., slender ; pappus in., white, hairs not thickened 

 at the tip. 



19. X. G-riffithii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 126 ; shrubby, branches woody and 

 leaves scabrid on both surfaces, leaves very large sessile obliquely oblanceolate 

 acuminate denticulate, heads ^ in. diam. few in a small terminal spreading 

 slender sessile pubescent panicle half the length of the leaves, invol. bracts few 

 linear with a subulate point straight rigid, achenes glabrous. 



BHOTAN ; rocks near Dairang, Griffith. 



Branches as thick as a goose-quill. Leaves 1 foot., membranous, curved, abruptly 

 acuminate, narrowed to the very base, green, nerves slender spreading. Panicle as 

 broad as long, compound, with curved lanceolate leafy bracts at the axils ; peduncles 

 very slender ; ligules ? ; anther-tails very long, lacerate. Achenes unripe, ^ in. ; 

 pappus | in., hairs thickened a little at the tips. 



20. I. grantioides, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 195; shrubby, papillose glan- 

 dular and hairy, branches very stout short, leaves fleshy lower long-petioled 

 cuneate 3-fid. upper linear entire or 3-toothed, heads 1 in. diam. solitary, invol. 

 bracts pubescent and viscid, outer short green obtuse, inner narrower long acute, 

 achenes large strongly ribbed hispid above constricted below the tip. I. 

 cutchica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 126. 



SCINB ; at Kutch, Kurachee, &c. WUZTJBISTAN, Stewart. 



A low, stout, woody shrub, with fleshy leaves and a balsamic odour. Leaves 1-2 

 in. long, lobing variable. Ligules few, short, yellow; lobes of disk-fl. very acuminate. 

 Achenes i in., narrowly oblong, ribbed as in /. macrosperma ; pappus twice as long, 

 reddish, scabrid. Bentham (Gen. PI. ii. 322) refers this to Grantia Aucheri, Boiss., 

 to which it bears a most deceptive similarity, differing almost solely in the pappus- 

 hairs being filiform to the base ; it invalidates the genus Grantia. Stock's specimens 

 were not gathered in Beluchistan as Boissier supposed. 



