Allardia.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 313 



rosy or lilac ; disk-fl. g , fertile, tubular, limb 5-fid, Involucre hemispheric ; 

 bracts oo -seriate ; margins scarious, lacerate, often black ; receptacle flat, naked. 

 Anther-basts truncate or with short connate auricles. Style-arms of $ broad, 

 with truncate penicillate tips. Achenes of 5-angled, glabrous or glandular, of 

 $ empty ; pappus of rigid brown or reddish wavy flattened bristles, sometimes 

 dilated at the tips and with split margins. DISTRIB. Species 4 or 5, Himalayan 

 and Central Asiatic. 



1. A. g-labra, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Sot. 88, t. 96; glabrous or sparsely 

 woolly, leaves cuneiform 3-fid, lobes entire or toothed, heads sessile, outer invoL 

 bracts woolly herbaceous with purple scarious margins, achenes glandular, pappus 

 of the ray-fl. scanty of the disk copious brown, bristles slender not dilated up- 

 wards. Clarke Comp. Ind. 145, excl. syn. Roylei. A. tridactylites, Hook. f. fy 

 Thorns. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 144. A. glabra, tridactylites, and Hugelii, Schultz- 

 Bip. in Pollichia, xx. 442. Waldheimia tridactylites, Kar. $ Kir. in Bull. Soc. 

 Imp. Mosc. 1842, 126. 



EASTERN and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 15-18,000 ft., from Ladak eastwards to the 

 Sikkim frontier. DISTRIB. Alatau Mts. 



Densely tufted, strongly scented. Leaves ^-f in. long, lobes linear subacnte. 

 Heads 1-1^ in. diam., sessile; ligules broadly elliptic, in. long, purple. Achenes 

 in. long; pappus ^ in. long; bristles unequal, flat, rigid, shining, margins here and 

 there split, tips acute. 



2. A. vestita, Hook.f. 8f Thorns. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 145; densely thickly 

 clothed with buff" or whitish wool, leaves cuneiform 3-5-fid, lobes short obtuse, 

 heads shortly peduncled, invol. bracts membranous with broad pale brown deeply 

 iimbriate margins, achenes glandular, pappus hairs with dilated tips yellowish. 



WESTERN TIBET; Takli pass, Zanskar, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Thomson. 



Habit and foliage of A. glabra, but distinguished by the dense woolly clothing, 

 peduncled heads, which are f-1 in. diam., membranous invol. bracts, and the short 

 yellowish pappus, which is not \ in. long. 



3. A . nivea, Hook. f. Sf Thorns. ; Clarke. Comp. Ind. 148 ; densely clothed 

 with white appressed wool, leaves cuneiform 3-lobed or -toothed, lobes short 

 obtuse, heads small sessile, invol. bracts woolly with narrow brown scarious 

 margins, achenes glandular, pappus hairs with slightly dilated tips yellowish. 



WESTERN TIBET, Falconer ; Nubra, Thomson. 



Smaller than any of the other Indian species. Leaves densely crowded, -| in. 

 long. Heads |-f in. diam. ; ligules few, 8-10, broadly elliptic, in. long. Pappus % 

 in. long, very copious. 



4. A. tomentosa, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 87, t. 95; clothed with soft 

 white wool, leaves oblong or linear-oblong 1-2-pinnatifid, segments various, 

 heads peduncled, invol. bracts woolly, achenes glabrous, pappus bristles flattened 

 with purplish often dilated tips whitish or yellowish. Schultz-Bip. in Pollichia, 

 xx. 441 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 144. 



WESTERN TIBET and Tibetan passes of the WESTEBN HIMALAYA, from Kashmir to 

 Kumaon, alt 18-16,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 



Loosely tufted ; branches elongate, ascending, 4-8 in. high, naked iipwards. Leaves 

 11-3 in. long, variable in breadth and amount of division. Heads 2-3 in. diam. ; 

 ligules very many, linear, 1 in. long, entire. Achenes grooved and wrinkled, pale ; 

 pappus ^ ^ in. long. 



5. A. Stoliczkai, Clarke Comp. Ind. 145; glabrous, leaves 2-pinnatisect, 

 segments narrow, heads peduncled, invol. bracts glabrous with black scarious 

 margins, pappus hairs connate below yellpwish. . 



