Artemisia.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 329 



25. A. minor, Jacquem. in DC. Prodr. vi. 124 ; dwarf, silkily tomentose, 

 densely tufted, stems very many short stout ascending from a stout woody root- 

 stock sheathed with scarious dry petiole-bases below and clothed with imbricat- 

 ing leaves above, a few elongating simple and flowering, leaves small densely 

 imbricate and sessile on the flowerless stems flabellately 2-pinnatifid sessile or 

 petioled on the flowering stem uppermost pinnatifid, heads ^ in. diam. bracteate 

 hemispheric subsessile subsecund solitary or spicate, invol. bracts tomentose with 

 broad coloured scarious margins, receptacular hairs long. A. tibetica, Herb. 

 Ind. Or. H.f. 8? T. A. Sieversiana, var. tibetica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 165. 



WESTERN TIBET,. alt. 15-18,000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson. EASTERN TIBET, N. of 

 Sikkim, alt, 18,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A strongly scented, densely tufted, dwarf species of the loftiest and driest regions, 

 with a woody root of probably great age giving off many tufts of short leafy branches, 

 of which few elongate and flower. Leaves \-^ in., grey ; petiole when present, rather 

 stout. Heads rarely more than 6, subtended by a leaf or bract that is linear or ovate, 

 entire or lobed, or sometimes reduced to one of the involucral series ; corollas with 

 pubescent lobes ; anthers acuminate. 



** Annuals or biennials. 



26. A. Sieversiana, Willd. ; Ledeb. Fl. Eoss.^\\. 599; annual or 

 biennial, hoary-pubescent, stem erect angled and ribbed simple or paniculately 

 branched above, leaves mostly petioled broadly ovate 2-pinnatisect segments 

 obtuse and obscurely lobed hoary on both surfaces, heads \ to nearly in. diam. 

 broadly hemispheric pedicelled secund nodding distant in lax long racemes 

 terminating the branches, outer invol. bracts green hoary, inner broadly scarious, 

 receptacular hairs long straight. Clarke Comp. Ind. 165; excl. var. /3; DC. 

 Prodr. vi. 126. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 8-10,000 ft. WESTERN TIBET, 

 alt. 12-14,000 ft., Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. From China, westward to S. Kussia. 



Very similar in many respects to A. Absinthium, but annual (in the Indian speci- 

 mens) with much larger heads, distant on the long lax racemes, and the anthers are 

 aristate. Ledebour describes the receptacle as sometimes nearly glabrous, in which 

 case the A. pallida could be hardly distinguished from it. 



27. A. macrocephala, Jacquem. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 125 ; annual, dwarf, 

 hoary-tomentose, branches many ascending from the root simple or sparingly 

 divided, leaves ovate 2-pinnatisect, segments linear obtuse or subacute hoary on 

 both surfaces, lower stoutly petioled, heads -^ in. diam. broadly hemispheric 

 shortly pedicelled secund nodding distantly racemed at the end of the branches, 

 outer invol. bracts green linear tomentose, inner oblong broadly scarious, recep- 

 tacular hairs long straight. A. Griffithiana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 376. 



KUNAWUR and WESTERN TIBET; alt. 12-16,000 ft., Jacquemont, Thomson. 

 Manasarowar Lake, alt. 15,500 ft., Strach. $ Winterb DISTRIB. Afghanistan, 

 Central Asia. 



Stem rather stout for the size of the plant, 4-8 in. long, often decumbent at the 

 base ; branches spreading in a circle from the root, simple, rarely suberect and again 

 branched. Leaves about in. long, mostly sessile. Heads yellow; invol. bracts 

 numerous ; corollas often with hairy lobes ; anthers acuminate. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



A. (Abrotanum) ROYLEANA, DC. Prodr. vi. 115; "herbaceous, strict, wholly 

 glabrous, cauline leaves pi nnati partite from the base, pinnae pairs 7 or 9, lobes broadly 

 linear acute entire, branches of the panicle erect, heads racemed secund subglobose 

 subcernuous, invol. bracts ovate subrotund margins scarious. A most distinct species, 

 leaf-lobes 10 by l lines." N.W. India, Boyle. I cannot identify this. 



A. (Abrotanum) FALLENS, Wall. Cat. 3302 ; a very obscure plant, procured from 

 the Madras missionaries by Wallich. and called A. absinthii, by Heyne ; it resembles 



