354 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Senecio. 



cordate or subreniform and 3-7-angled or palmately lobed, angles or lobes 

 coarsely sinuate-toothed and teeth acute and apiculate, petiole slender not 

 auricled, heads narrow 5-6-fld. bracteolate long-peduncled drooping in simple or 

 branched long slender racemes, in vol. bracts 5-6 linear membranous, ligules 0, 

 achenes slender glabrous shorter than the scanty white pappus. Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 209. Prenanthes ? quinqueloba. Wall. Cat. 3261 ; DC. Prodr. vi. 195. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 10-12,000 ft. 



Soot perennial ; stem grooved, 2-3 ft., naked below. Leaves 2-4 in., sometimes as 

 broad as long or even broader, rather glaucous beneath, uppermost not cordate. 

 Racemes a foot long and less, very slender, sometimes quite simple with secund brac- 

 teate peduncles bearing solitary terminal heads and bulb-like leaf- buds in the axils ; 

 or the peduncle becomes an elongated branch bearing many bulbils. Invol. bracts 

 obtuse or acute, green ; corolla large, tube shorter than the campanulate limb ; anthers 

 exserted, with very short tails. Achenes i in., tip dilated. 



55. S. chenopodifolius, DC. Prodr. vi. 364; herbaceous, finely pubes- 

 cent above, stem branched naked below, leaves membranous triangular-cordate 

 or obscurely 3-lobed acuminate irregularly sinuate-toothed angles and teeth 

 apiculate, petiole slender base broadly auricled, heads small numerous subsecund 

 3-fld. fascicled on the slender branches of panicled racemes, invol. bracts 3-5 

 minute, ligules 0, achenes glabrous shorter than the copious brown pappus. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 209. Mikania chenopodioides, Wall. Cat. 3175. 



CENTRAL and WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 7000 ft., Falconer, Stewart, 

 to Nipal, Wallich. 



Stem 2-4 ft., rather stout, but soft, terete, often flexuous. Leaves 3-5 in. long and 

 often as broad, base truncate or cordate, subglaucous beneath. Racemes very slender, 

 panicled ; heads in. long, very shortly peduncled, drooping ; invol. bracts j^ in., 

 oblong, pubescent, much smaller than the corollas, the slender tube of which equals in 

 length the inflated limb ; anthers hardly exserted. Achenes turbinate, unripe ^ in. 

 long. 



[ * Erect herbs with leafy stems or branches and terminal broad corymbs, 



56. S. XLunthianus, Wall. Cat. 3118; stem erect glabrous orpuberulous 

 leafy simple or corymbosely branched above, leaves short-petioled ovate- or 

 elliptic-lanceolate acute coarsely toothed white-tomentose beneath, heads in. 

 long many-fld. bracteolate campanulate in broad terminal corymbs, invol. bracts 

 5-8 narrow acute glabrescent, ligules 5-7, achenes pubescent. DC. Prodr. vi. 

 369 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 186. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt. 10-14,000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 12,000 ft. 



Stem stout, often glandular, red when dry. Leaves 1^3 by ^-1 in., smooth and 

 glabrous above, snowy-white beneath. Heads peduncle^. Achenes in. ; pappus 

 copious, white, as long as the tubular corollas. 



57. S. acuminatus, Wall. Cat, 3107; pubescent above, stem corym- 

 bosely branched, leaves shortly petioled elongate-lanceolate cauiate-acuminate 

 finely serrate glabrous on both surfaces, nerves reticulate, heads ^ in. long 2-3- 

 fld. bracteolate narrow in terminal and axillary long-peduncled corymbs, invol. 

 bracts 3-5 linear-oblong obtuse glabrous, ligule solitary minute, achenes glabrous. 

 DC. Prodr. vi. 368 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 187. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 8-10,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



An erect herb, 2-3 ft. ; stem rather flexuous, obtusely angled. Leaves 5-7 by 

 in., rather thin, base acute. Heads very numerous; flowers twice as long as th 

 volucre. Pappus reddish, equalling the tubular corollas. 



