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



shrubby below, stems erect or ascending much branched from the bases, leaves 

 ovate 2-pin natisect, segments small spreading linear obtuse, upper simple linear, 

 heads 3-8-fld. ovoid or oblong suberect in spicate fascicles, invol. bracts linear- 

 oblong, outer herbaceous tomentose, inner scarious acute glabrous. DC. Prodr. 

 TI. 102 j Clarke Comp. Ind. 159. A. brevifolia, Wall. Cat. 3306 ; DC. Prodr. 

 vi. 103. A. fragrans, Willd. ; Sows. FL Orient, iii. 366. A. acetica, Jacq. in 

 Bess. Monog. Dracunc. Suppl. 86 ; DC. I. c. 105. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 7-9000 ft. WESTERN 

 TIBET ; in salt plains, alt. 9-14,000 ft., abundant. DISTRIB. Coasts of Europe and 

 saline tracts of N. Asia. 



Rootstock woody, branched; stems 6-18 in., strict, woody or -wiry. Leaves |-2in., 

 often quite white, with very many segments ; petiole slender. Heads often reddish, 

 crowded and bract eolate by a small linear or almost setaceous leaf. The heads are 

 erect in most of the Indian specimens, -which refers them to the form called fragrans 

 of Willdenow, but Clarke mentions a variety with nodding heads which he (in mss.) 

 refers to A. nutans, Willd. ; and he has a var. Thomsoniana for a form with very 

 woolly leaves and suberect heads (A. Lehmaniana, Bge.). Wallich's A. brevifolia in 

 no way diifers from A. maritima. 



SECT. III. Abrotanum. Heads heterogamous ; ray-fl. <j> , disk-fl. g , all 

 fertile ; receptacle naked (or puberulous in A. persica). 



* Annuals or biennials. 



10. A. caruifolia, Ham. in Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61; Fl. Ind. iii. 162 

 (l)y error carnifolia} ; annual, quite glabrous, stem branched above densely leafy, 

 leaves sessile capillaceo-multifid, heads - in. diam. hemispheric pedicelled 

 secund drooping in axillary leafy racemes, invol. bracts glabrous broadly oblong, 

 outer herbaceous with narrow scarious margins, inner scarious. Wall. Cat. 

 3299 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 119 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 162. A. riparia, Herb. Ham. 



EASTERN BENGAL, ASSAM, NIPAL and BIRMA. DISTRIB. China. 

 Stem 24 ft., stout, but soft and herbaceous. Leaves deep green, segments very 

 narrow and weak. Heads green, many-fld. ; receptacle hemispheric. 



11. A. Tournefortiana, Reichb. Ic. Exot. i. 6,t. 5 ; annual, stout, erect 

 quite glabrous simple or thyrsoidly branched, leaves linear-oblong or ovate 

 pinnatisect, rachis lobulate, segments distant oblong toothed laciniate or pinnatifid, 

 cauline and floral sessile elongate, heads ovoid in. long erect in very dense 

 axillary erect sessile compound thyrsoid panicles, invol. bracts glabrous erect 

 after flowering obovate-oblong acute scarious with a narrow green disk, recep- 

 tacle very small. DC. Prodr. vi. 119 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 372 ; Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 163. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET ; alt. 8-12,000 ft; Kashmir, Falconer; 

 Kunawur and Piti, Jacguemont, Thomson. DISTRIB. Afghanistan and westward to, 

 Armenia. 



Very stout, 2-4 ft. ; stem green or purplish. Leaves green, 3-5 in. long, soft, 

 petiole and rachis slender. Heads clustered like the inflorescence of an Amaranthus. 

 Achenes larger than usual in the genus, about in. long. The Sikkim plant referred 

 to this by Clarke (I.e.) is A. bicnnis, which differs widely in the size, form and colour 

 of the heads, and in the broad receptacle. 



12. A. biennis. Willd. ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. iii. 593; green and rather succu- 

 lent, glabrous or pilose, leaves 2-pin natipartite, segments pinatifid or toothed, 

 heads many-fld. f ^ in. diam. broadly cupular suberect in short leafy panicled 

 racemes, invol. bracts pubescent broad green with rather narrow and brown 

 scarious margins, DC. Prodr. vi. 120. 



WESTERN TIBET; Milam (N. of Kumaon), alt. 11,500 ft., and Topidunga, alt. 



