Doronicum.~\ LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 333 



SIKKIF G. nud'^ ; Lachen and Tungu, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A n-faina of ai^l-2 ft. high ; radical leaves or soon withering ; cauline 4-6 by 1-2 

 in., often unequal-sided. Heads 2^ in. diam. ; invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate ; ligules about as long. Achenes (ripe not seen) ; pappus short, reddish. 



3. D. Falconer!, Clarke mss.; stem simple puberulous or glabrate, leaves 

 all petioled obovate or spathulate obscurely toothed, heads 1-2 glandular-villous 

 base turbinate, achenes of the ray epappose, of the disk pappose. D. seorpioides, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 169, in part. 



KASHMIR, alt. 13,000 ft., Falconer, Clarke. WESTERN TIBET; Karakoram, alt. 

 14,000 ft., Clarke. 



A stout herb, 1-1 1 ft. high, stem nearly naked above. Leaves, including the petiole, 

 5-6 in. long, variable in breadth. Heads 2-3 in. diam. ; invol. bracts linear-lanceolate ; 

 ligules very numerous, longer than the bracts. Achenes very immature ; pappus 

 short. 



76. aYNURA, Cass. 



Succulent herbs, rarely undershrubs, glabrous or hispid. Leaves alternate, 

 entire toothed or pinnatisect. Heads solitary or corymbose, bracteolate at the 

 base, homogamous, disciform, yellow or purplish ; fl. all , fertile, tubular, with 

 rarely a few more slender outer $ ones, limb 5-toothed. Involucre cylindric or 

 subcampanulate ; bracts 10-12, 1-seriate, narrow, equal, margins scarious; re- 

 ceptacle flat, pitted or shortly fimbrillate. Anther-bases entire or subauricled. 

 Style-arms slender ; tips long, subulate, hispid. Achenes narrow, many-ribbed ; 

 pappus hairs copious, oo -seriate, slender, white. DISTRIB. Species about 20, 

 warm regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



The species of this genus are much confused in De Candolle's Prodromus, and there 

 are probably fewer in India than are here described. 



* Stem erect. 



1. G-. nitida, DC. in Wight Contrib. 24; Prodr. vi. 299; glabrous except 

 the puberulous pedicels, stem robust branched below, branches simple, leaves 

 crowded towards the bases of the branches obovate or oblanceolate acute or ob- 

 tuse succulent remotely serrate, base narrowed auricled or not, uppermost sessile, 

 heads with fleshy turbinate pubescent bases, invol. bracts glabrous, achenes 

 hispid. Wight Ic. t. 1121 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 171. G. simplex, 'Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 130. Cacalia incana, Heyne in Wall Cat. 3158. 



NILGHERRY and PTTLNEY MTS., Wight, &c. 



There are two forms of this in Wight's Herbarium, one a very robust plant from 

 the Nilgherry mountains, with a long stout stem and broadly oblong auricled upper 

 cauline leaves (as figured in Wight's Icones) ; the other has short branches, with 

 narrow, more petioled leaves ; both have hispid achenes. The former of these closely 

 resembles in habit Cr. angulosa, and the latter Cr. pseudo-china. 



2. Cr. nepalensis, DC. Prodr. vi. 300; tall, shrubby below and corym- 

 bosely branched above, hoarily pubescent or subtomentose, leafy, leaves obovate 

 oblong or lanceolate the lower narrowed into a petiole entire sinuate-toothed or 

 base subpinnatifid, heads many, invol. bracts hoary-villous, achenes glabrous or 

 sparsely pubescent. Clarke Comp. Ind. 171. G. foe tens, DC. I.e. Cacalia auran- 

 tiaca and foetens, Wall. Cat. 3146, 3156. C. flava, Herb. Ham. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 2-5000 ft. MARTABAN ; 

 mountains near Moulmein, alt. 4-5000 ft., Parish. AVA, Wallich. DISTRIB. Java ? 



A tall handsome species ; stem below as thick as the little finger. Leaves 3-7 in., 

 acuminate, usually irregularly coarsely toothed, hoary-pubescent on both surfaces. 

 Corymbs often large and broad ; heads |-1 in. long. The Javanese G. aurantiaca 

 hardly differs from this, but its hairs are not white. 



