LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 



base narrow, invol. bracts 5-6 linear-oblong free acute glabrous, ligules 1-2 

 very long, achenes narrow equalling the white pappus. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Kashmir, alt. 7-10,000 ft., Thomson, Wait. 



Stem 3-4 ft., more slender than in S. amplexicaulis. Leaves 10 in. diam. and 

 imder, orbicular and deeply cordate with rounded lobes, or more often hastate with 

 decurved or spreading lobes. Corymbs very variable, axils with long linear bracts. 

 Heads suberect and drooping ; bracteoles linear or filiform ; invol. bracts in. long ; 

 ligules f in. Achenes % in. long, glabrous. 



36. S. pachycarpus, Clarke mss. ; stout, erect, nearly glabrous, pubes- 

 cent above, leaves ovate-cordate toothed, petiole of radical long winged wing 

 toothed, cauline with a dilated sheath, heads many-fld. drooping base broad, 

 invol. bracts 10-12 oblong connate at the base, ligules very long, achenes short 

 broad equalling the reddish pappus. S. corymbosus, Clarke Comp. 2nd. 205 r 

 not of DC. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; alt. 10-14,000 ft., Clarke. 



The only specimen I have seen is very mutilated ; its heads are smaller than in 

 S. amplexicaulis, which is apparently its nearest ally, and from which it is best dis- 

 tinguished by its small heads and small broadly obovate-oblong achenes - i in. long, 

 and short pappus. 



'* Leaves palmately lobed, heads corymbose. 



37. S. macranthus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 205; very robust, nearly 

 glabrous, leaves palmately or subpedately 7-9-lobed to near the base, lobes 

 oblong gashed and toothed, petiole of radical long not winged, of cauline 

 with a basal sheath, heads very few and large corymbose on long naked 

 peduncles many-fld., base broad ebracteolate, invol. bracts 6-10 very unequal 

 and irregularly connate, ligules very long narrow, achenes narrow glabrous 

 nearly equalling the red pappus. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 5-7000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Stem 3-5 ft., as thick as the thumb below. Leaves reniform in outline, 12-18 in. 

 diam. Heads campanulate, ebracteolate ; invol. bracts f-1 in., some lanceolate 

 acuminate, others broadly ovate obtuse or acute, with membranous overlapped 

 margins ; ligules 2 in. long ; disk-fl. with a long slender tube and short limb. 

 Achenes ^ in. 



38. S. IWEortoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 208 ; stem above and corymb pube- 

 rulous, leaves palmately 5-11-lobed lobes gashed and toothed, petiole of the 

 radical long not winged, of the cauline with a basal sheath, heads many large 

 narrow 5-6-fld. bracteolate base very narrow, invol. bracts 3-5 linear-oblong 

 acute or obtuse free to the base, ligules 0, achenes narrow glabrous equalling or 

 exceeding the red pappus. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA; E. Nipal, Sikkim and W. Bhotan, alt. 9-12,000 ft, J. D. H., 

 Clarke. 



Stem 3-4 ft. Leaves reniform in outline, 18 in. diam. aud under. Corymbs much 

 branched, very broad ; heads erect, fascicled ; bracteoles linear, revolute ; invol. 

 bracts ~ in. long, 2-seriate, outer narrower, inner broader with wide membranous 

 borders ; tubes of disk-corollas about equalling the campanulate limb. Achenes \-\ 

 in., smooth. The campanulate limb of the disk-corolla is not, as Clarke describes, 

 much shorter than the tube, nor are the achenes \ in. long. It is named after a 

 grandson of the illustrious Roxburgh, Depy. Comm. of Sikkim in 1870. 



*** Leaves not lobed. Heads in simple or rarely branched racemes or solitary. 



39. S. Lig ularia. Hook. f. ; glabrous, or cottony above, stout, erect, 

 leaves cordate-sagittate or subdeltoid or reniform obtuse or acute coarsely 

 toothed, petiole of the lower long simple, of the upper winged and sheathing, 



