300 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Pulicaria. 



scabrid hairs. Achenes short, terete, pericarp crustaceous. A very distinct 

 group in respect of both pappus and aclienes. 



8. P. g-laucescens, Jaub. Sf Spach. III. PL Orient, t. 349; dwarf, 

 shrubby, glabrous or sparsely hairy above, leaves fleshy elongate linear or dilated 

 upwards, margins flat or involute quite entire, heads in. diam. shortly peduncled, 

 invol. bracts glabrous lanceolate acute rigid, ligules 0, pappus white or yellowish 

 much longer than the short oblong silky achenes. Clarke Comp. 2nd. 130. 

 PlatychaBte glaucescens, Boiss. ; FL Orient, iii. 209. 



The PUNJAB, SALT RANGE and MABBI, Fleming. WUZURISTAN, Stewart. Dis- 

 TBIB. Beluchistan, Persia. 



A small saline succulent- leaved shrub, with pale woody stem and branches. Leaves 

 l-2 in., tips usually recurved. Heads shining from the copious pale straw-coloured 

 pappus. The outer pappus is continuous with the pubescence of the very short 

 achenes. 



9. P. Boissieri, Hook. f. ; dwarf, shrubby, villous with long white hairs, 

 leaves fleshy spathulate or elongate-spathulate quite entire or sparsely toothed 

 flat or complicate, heads in. diam. shortly peduncled, invol. bracts lanceolate 

 acute rigid puberulous, ligules 0, pappus white or yellowish much longer than 

 the short oblong silly achenes. Platychsete villosa, Boiss. ; Fl. Orient, iii. 

 208. 



SCIND, Stocks. 



Habit and heads of P. glaucescens, but softly villous, and the leaves are not more 

 than |-1 in. long. Boissier describes the invol. bracts as very obtuse, but they are 

 quite acute in our specimens. 



10. P. Stocksii, Hook. f. ; dwarf, shrubby, pubescent, leaves short 

 spathulate very fleshy quite entire flat or concave above, heads subsessile \ in. 

 diarn., invol. bracts rigid lanceolate puberulous outer obtuse inner acute, ligules 

 0, pappus white much longer than the short oblong silky achenes. 



SCIND, Stocks. 



A much shorter and more robust plant than P. Boissieri or glaucescens, blackish 

 when dry, with leaves J-^ in. long, not recurved at the tips. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



P. SAKKIANA, Klatt. Compos. Schlagintw. 87. The description of this answers to 

 any of the above described species of Platychate. 



48. CARPESIUBC, Linn. 



Erect branched herbs. Leaves alternate. Heads terminal or axillary, sessile 

 or peduncled, usually drooping, heterogamous, disciform, yellow ; outer fl. . , 

 co -seriate, fertile, slender, 3-5-toothed ; disk-fl. > , fertile, slender, limb slightly 

 dilated 5-toothed. Involucre hemispheric or subglobose ; bracts in few series, 

 inner broad obtuse dry, outer with herbaceous or Ibliaceous tips ; receptacle flat, 

 naked. Anther-bases sagittate, tails slender. Style-arms linear, obtuse, connivent 

 till late. Achenes elongate, striate with an (often glandular) beak surmounted 

 by a corona ; pappus 0. DISTRIB. Species 4-5, S. European and temperate and 

 subtropical Asiatic. 



1. C. cernuum, Linn. ; pubescent, leaves shortly petioled elliptic-lanceo- 

 late obtuse sinuate-toothed, heads terminal drooping with broad leafy bracts, 

 outer invol. bracts leafy spreading. Clarke Comp. Ind. 130. 



TEMPEBATE HIMALAYA and the KHASIA and NILGHEBBY MTS. DISTRIB. From the 

 Caucasus to France, Java, Japan. 



