312 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Achillea. 



A. xnillefolium , Linn.; Bois*. Fl. Orient, iii. 255; glabrous or 

 pubescent, leaves narrowly oblong-lanceolate 3-pinnatisect, heads corymbose 

 ovoid shortly peduncled. DC. Prodr. vi. 24; Reich. Ic. FL Germ. t. 1826; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 143. A. cuspidate, DC. I. c. 30; Wall. Cat. 3230. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 6-9000 ft. DISTRIB. N. 

 Asia. Europe, N. America. 



Root stoloniferous. Stem ^-1^ ft., furrowed, leafy. Leaves 2-6 in., radical 

 petioled, segments close-set acute. Heads many, \ in. diam. ; invol. bracts oblong, 

 obtuse rigid; ligules many, orbicular, white pink or purple, reflexed. Achenes 

 shining. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



A. SQUARROSA, Ait. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 33 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 143 ; said to hare been 

 introduced into the Calcutta gardens, or Assam, is not a native of India. 



64. ANTHEMIS, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, deeply toothed or pinnatiseet. 

 Heads terminal, peduncled, rarely corymbose, heterogamous and radiate (very 

 rarely disciform), ray-fl. $ , fertile sterile or neuter, 1-serinte, tube terete or 

 2-winged,ligule spreading ; disk-fl. ty , fertile, tube compressed or 2- winged, base 

 usually 1-2-gibbous, limb 5-fid. Involucre hemispheric ; bracts oo -seriate, ap- 

 pressed, rigid, margins scarious, outer shorter ; receptacle convex or elongate ; 

 pales broad or narrow, rigid or hyaline, sometimes embracing the flowers. 

 Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of $ with truncate penicillate tips. Achenes 

 oblong, glabrous, 4-5-angled, 8-10-ribbed or many-striate, truncate; pappus 

 or very short, paleaceous or of a membranous large or small auricle. DISTKIB. 

 Species about 70, European, N. & W. Asian and N. African. 



1. A. Cotula, Linn.; Boiss. FL Orient, iii. 315; annual, erect, pales of 

 receptacle linear or setaceous, ray-fl. usually neuter white, disk-fl. winged dilated 

 below, achenes caducous top naked. Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1000; Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 143. Marnta Cotula, DC. Prodr. vi. 13. 



SCIND, Stocks, ex. C. B. Clarke (probably Beluchistan). DISTKIB. N. Asia, and 

 westwards to Britain and the Canary Islands. 



A glabrous or hairy fetid herb, 8-18 in. high, eorymbosely branched. Leav?s 

 gland-dotted, segments very narrow. Heads 1-1^ in. diam.; peduncle slender, not 

 thickened upwards ; invol. bracts oblong, obtuse, margins scarious ; receptacle conic. 

 Achenes turbinate, tubercled, tip crenulate. I have seen no Scind specimen of this, 

 but have Beluchistan ones collected by Stocks. 



2. A. odontostephana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 319; dwarf, hoary- 

 pubescent, leaves ovate pinnatisect, segments entire or 3-5-lobed, ray-fl. , 

 pales of receptacle subulate, achenes crowned with blunt short teeth. 



The PUNJAUB, at Peshawur, Vicary, Stewart; SCIND. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, 

 Beluchistan, and Persia. 



Stems many from the root. Leaves ^-f in. long. Heads & in. diam., few-flowered ; 

 peduncle thickened upwards; invol. bracts hairy, oblong, obtuse; ligules oblong; re- 

 ceptacle conic. Achenes cylindric, ribbed, tubercled; tip of outer toothed, of inner 

 with a short auricle. Stated by Clarke to being found in Scind by Stocks, but probably 

 from Beluchistan. It appears to me to be identical with A. scaposa, Gay. 



65. AX.X.ARDXA, .Dene. 



Perennial, diffuse or tufted alpine herbs. Leaves alternate, cuneate, 3-5- 

 toothed, or 2-3-pinnatisect. Heads often large, terminal, sessile or peduncled, 

 heterogamous, rayed; ray-fl. neuter, 1 -seriate, ligule spreading entire white 



