322 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Artemisia. 



celled pale shining, invol. bracts broadly oblong with very broad scarious 

 margins and a very narrow green disk. Clarke Comp. Ind. 157 : Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 

 ii. 563. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Thomson; Lahul, Jaeschke. DISTRIB. Aff- 

 ghanistan, W. Asia, S. and Mid Russia. 



A green erect herb 1-2 ft. high ; stems grooved and ribbed. Leaves l-l in., quite 

 entire in Indian specimens. Heads sometimes clustered in threes, horizontal or nod- 

 ding ; flowers rather numerous. Achenes, ripe not seen in Indian specimens. Though 

 described as an annual, the roots seem to be perennial. The Affghan specimens have 

 rather smaller heads, and are probably Boissier's A. campestrls, var. inodora. 



3. A. g-lauca, Pall. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 97 ; herbaceous, perennial, pubescent, 

 radical leaves 3-fid or 0, lobes acute, cauline sessile linear or linear-lanceolate 

 rarely lobed, heads subglobose in. diam. in very slender lax short racemes with 

 capillary pedicels, invol. bracts glabrous oblong obtuse scarious with a narrow 

 green disk. Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 563. A. dubia, Wall. ? Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 

 8?T. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kunawru and Jamu, alt. 7-9000 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. 

 Siberia, Mongolia. 



Very similar to A. Dracunculus, and distinguished by the pubescence only. 



4. A. desertorum, Spreng. Syst. iii. 490 ; herbaceous, perennial, glabrous, 

 leaves 1-2 in. sessile entire and linear or 2-3-partite or pinnatifid with linear 

 acute segments, heads usually pedicelled subglobose in. diam. sessile or 

 peduncled, solitary and distant or in clusters of 2-3 short forming panicled 

 racemes, invol. bracts orbicular or oblong, outer herbaceous or with narrow 

 scarious margins. DC. Prodr. vi. 97; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 564; Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 158. A. foetida, Jacquem. in DC. Prodr. vi. 98. A. Jacquemontiana, 

 Besser; DC. I.e. 97. 



WESTERN TIBET and KUNAWUR, alt. 10-16,000 ft., Falconer, Jacquemont, Thomson. 

 DISTRIB. Eastern Turkestan, alt. 17-18,000 ft. (Henderson); Siberia. 



A suberect foetid herb ; branches grooved and ribbed. Leaves green, acute. Htads 

 dark green ; outer invol. bracts often wholly herbaceous ; flowers rather numerous. 

 Achenes as in A. salsoloides. In A. Jaccpiemontiana the invol. bracts are more scarious, 

 and present a transition to A. Dracunculus, of which this is probably a variety ; it is 

 referred by Maximovicz (Dec. xi. 526) to parviflora, Roxb., but I think erroneously. 



5. A. parviflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61; Fl. Ind. vi. 420; perennial, 

 herbaceous, villous, hoary or glabrous, stems erect or ascending stout panicu- 

 lately branched grooved, leaves sessile linear-cuneate, tip entire or acutely 2-8- 

 fid or flabellately lobulate rarely pinnatifid, upper linear entire acute, heads 

 ^Q-fa in. diam. globose secund in elongate strict panicled racemes, invol. bracts 

 broadly oblong with broad scarious edges. Don Prodr. 181 ; DC. in Wight 

 Contrib 20 ; Prodr. vi. 100 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. FL 314 ; Wall. Cat. 3298 ;, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 159. A. glabrata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 20 ; Prodr. vi. 100 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1111. A. cuneifolia, DC. I. c. 126. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 7-9000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7-11,000 ft. 

 KHASIA MTS., AVA, and MARTABAN, alt. 5-7000 ft. BEHAR ; on Parusnath, alt. 4000 

 ft. WESTERN GHATS; from the Concan southwards to the Pulney Mts. (absent in 

 Ceylon). 



A shrubby inodorous herb 1-3 ft. high, glabrous or laxly villous. Leaves very 

 variable, 1-2 in. long, the lowest sometimes nearly 1 in. diam., with palmately spread- 

 ing 3-5-fid lobes, the upper middle sometimes 1-2-pinnatifid with narrow lobes, but 

 usually the lower and middle cauline are simply narrowly cuneate and acutely 3-5-fid 

 at the broad end; all have generally a pair of stipule-like narrow lobes at the base. 

 Heads almost always pedicelled, greenish ; flowers 6-10. Achenes about ^ in. long, 

 ellipsoid, smooth, brown. The stems are so robust as to suggest that this is often 



