Artemisia.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 327 



Ind. 160. A. Messerschmidiana, Sesser Monog. ; Abrot. 27 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 

 107. 



WESTERN TIBET, KUNAWCR, and the Tibetan region of KUMAON, alt. 9-17,000 ft. 

 DISTRIB. Mid. and S. Kussia, Siberia, Dahuria. 



Habit of A. vestita, but the leaves are smaller and alike on both surfaces, the 

 heads are twice as large, and the flowers far more numerous. The outer invol. bracts 

 in both are sometimes linear and green. 



19. A. Campbell!!, Hook.f. $ T. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 164 (excl. locality 

 of W. Tibet) ; dwarf, clothed with buft" tomentum, stems simple, ascending 

 from a creeping woody branched stock, leaves ovate pinnatisect segments 2-3- 

 lobed, lobes lanceolate acute tomentose on both surfaces, petiole stout, heads in. 

 diam. hemispheric sessile clustered clusters in interrupted simple or racemose 

 spikes, invol. bracts densely woolly oblong, outer with narrow scarious margins, 

 inner scarious. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; on the Tibetan passes and north of them, alt. 16-18,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



A strong scented, tufted, stout, herb, less than a foot high, softly, often subsilkily 

 tomentose all over; rootstock stout, with stout woody descending fibres. Radical 

 leaves 1-1^ in. long ; petiole stout, with a sheathing base ; cauline sessile, with 

 auricled bases, segments with revolute margins. Heads brown, in woolly clusters ; 

 receptacle very small ; flowers not numerous. Through some accident Clarke has 

 referred to this species a Western Tibetan plant of Falconer's, &c., and a portion of 

 Wallich's N. 3302 (A. vestita), from Kashmir. 



*** Perennials with rather large heads in simple or sparingly branched erect 

 axillary and terminal racemes. 



(The species 20, 21, 22 are very closely allied and closely resemble states of 

 16, 17 and 18, all may prove forms of one or two species.) 



20. A. Bloorcroftiana, Wall. Cat. 3296; DC. Prodr. vi. 117; hoary 

 or tomentose, rootstock creeping, stem simple below, leaves ovate or oblong 

 2-pinnatifid white-tomentose beneath, rachis pinnatifid, segments spreading 

 ovate or lanceolate acute, heads large %-\ in. diam. broadly hemispheric 15-20- 

 fld. sessile solitary or in clusters along the long racemes, invol. bracts obovate 

 tomentose broadly scarious, receptacle broad hemispheric. A. hypoleuca ? 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



KASHMIR; Efrltal, alt, 9-13,000 ft., and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 13-14,000 ft., 

 Thomson. KUNAWUR, at Spiti, Jaeschke. 



This resembles closely states of A. Roxburghiana, var. grata, in foliage, and it has 

 a similar root, but the inflorescence is very peculiar, the large heads forming inter- 

 rupted elongated spikes or racemes, with spaces of ^-f in. between the solitary heads 

 or clusters of 2-3 heads. The flowers are purple, very numerous, the receptacle 

 totally different, and the achenes twice as large (^ in. long). 



21. A. persica, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 373 ; tall, erect, perennial ?, hoary 

 with white tomentum, paniculately branched above, leafy, leaves small ovate or 

 flabellate decompoundly pinnatisect, segments minute linear or obovate obtuse 

 spreading, rachis simple or lobulate, heads in. diam. subglobose rather remote 

 pedicelled secund nodding in short or long axillary strict erect racemes, invol. 

 bracts tomentose outer linear green, inner orbicular broadly scarious, receptacle 

 small convex obscurely pubescent. Clarke Comp. Ind. 165. 



WESTERN TIBET, alt. 9-14,000 ft., Thomson. DISTRIB. Affghanistan, S. Persia, 

 Kurdistan. 



Described by Boissier as a perennial, but the Tibetan examples are rather like 

 biennials and very strongly scented. Stem 3-4 ft., grooved and ribbed, branches long 



