.SenecioJ] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 339 



petiole not auricled. Corymb with filiform bracts ; heads erect or drooping. Involucre 

 cylindric. Achcnes ribbed, ^ in. ; pappus white. The var. Hookeri, Clarke 1. c., 

 differs only in the rather broader heads with more developed ligules ; var. pubescens, 

 from Churaba, has hairs on the leaf-nerves beneath. 



2. S. chrysanthemoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 365; glabrous below, 

 pubescent above, stem erect usually much corymbosely branched, leaves glabrous 

 rarely hoary beneath, lower lyrate-pinnatih'd with an auricled petiole and large 

 gashed terminal lobe, upper sessile broadly amplexicaul pinnatifid, the lobes 

 often very large, auricle gashed and toothed, heads in. diam. numerous brac- 

 teolate corymbose mauy-fld., in vol. bracts 10-12 oblong acute, ligules 8-12, 

 achenes glabrous or puberulous all with white pappus or the ray without 

 pappus. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from KASHMIR to Sikkim, alt. 8-13,000 ft. KHASIA MTS., 

 alt. 4-5000 ft. 



The commonest Senecio of the Himalaya, simulating the European 8. chrysanthe- 

 mifoliiis, but with glabrous achenes. Stem 2-6 ft., robust, striate. Leaves, lower 

 sometimes reduced to an ovate or oblong crenate blade, at others lyrate with a large 

 terminal and few or many small lateral lobes, always less acutely cut than the upper, 

 and narrowed into a long or short winged petiole ; upper leaves 1-9 by ^-4 in., with 

 always broadly auricled toothed bases ; rarely all the leaves are lyrate-pinnatifid ; 

 terminal lobes ovate, oblong or deltoid. Corymb in ordinary states much branched 

 with auricled forks and stout peduncles with filiform bracts ; invol. bracts -J in., 

 thickened at the bases. Achenes ^ in., strongly ribbed. 



VAR. 1. chrysanthemoides proper; lower leaves glabrous lyrate-pinnatifid, upper 

 sessile amplexicaul, heads many glabrescent, achenes glabrous all pappose. 8. chry- 

 santhemoides, DC. L c. S. laciniatus and stipulatus, Wall. Cat. 3124, 3126. S. Isetus, 

 Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 74. S. Jacobaea, Don Prodr. 179. Common. 



VAR. 2. sisymbriiformis ; puberulous, all the leaves lyrate with a large terminal 

 ovate toothed lobe, heads pubescent, achenes all pappose. S. sisymbriiformis, DC. 

 Prodr. vi. 366; Clarke Comp. Lnd. 190. N.W. India, Boyle; Kashmir, Falconer; 

 Marri, Fleming. 



VAR. 3. spectabilis ; foliage, &c., of var. 1, but ray flowers without pappus. 

 S. spectabilis, Wall. Cat. 3127, a.c.; DC. I.e. 



VAR. 4. khasiana; foliage and heads of var. 1, but achenes puberulous, pappus of 

 ray-fl. scanty or 0, of the disk white or reddish. S. spectabilis, Wall. Cat. 3127 B; 

 Clarke Comp. 2nd. 190, in part. S. pallens, var. khasianus, Clarke I.e. 192. Khasia 

 Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. This unites S. diversifolius with chrysanthemoides. 



VAR. 5. analogus ; leaves smaller cobwebby beneath all lyrate-pinnatifid, heads 

 usually smaller glabrescent or hoary, achenes all pappose. S. analogus, DC. I. c. 

 N.W. India, Royle ; Kashmir, Falconer, Thomson ; Marri, Fleming. 



3. S. bracteolatus, Hook. f. ; dwarf, simple, 4-6 in. high, stem above 

 and leaves beneath tomentose, radical-leaves long petioled elliptic obtuse toothed 

 or lobulate, cauline sessile with shorter petioles pinnatifidly lobed, heads 1-3 

 f in. diam. many-fld., bracteoles many subulate-lanceolate half as long as and 

 oppressed to the similar purplish invol. bracts, ligules 10-12 longer than the 

 involucre 4-nerved, achenes glabrous, pappus white. S. alpinus, Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 190, not of Scopoli. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. 15-16,000 ft,, J. D. H. 



I at first supposed this to be an alpine dwarf form of S. chrysanthemoides, but the 

 many long bracteoles of the involucre are very different from what any form of that 

 plant presents. I found it but once, at an early season for the lofty elevation it 

 inhabits, and the ticket was lost with many of my specimens from that region. It is 

 a high Alpine form, and hence specimens from other localities would show much 

 variation from those described. It differs from S. alpinus notably in the bracteolate 

 heads. 



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