Senecio.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 355 



**** Shrubby, heads in axillary and terminal corymbs. 



58. S. densiflorus, Wall in DC. Prodr. vi. 369; shrubby, branches 

 leaves beneath and corymbs clothed with appressed white rarely grey cottony 

 wool, leaves large petioled narrowly or broadly elliptic- or obovate-lanceolate 

 acuminate toothed, head* ^ in. long many-fld. bracteolate in axillary peduncled 

 and terminal branched subpanicled corymbs, invol. bracts 8-12 linear acute 

 tomentose, ligules 8-10, achenes glabrous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 185. S. unci- 

 nellus, densiflorus, and angulosus, DC. I. c. 368, 369. S. aureus and angulosus, 

 Wall. Cat. 3113, 3117. Solidago densiflorus, Wall. Cat. 1821. 



CENTRAL and WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Nipal to Bhotan, air. 5-7000 ft. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft. BIRMA, Parish. 



Branches stout. Leaves 5-9 by l-3 in., glabrous or cottony above, teeth often 

 hooked ; petiole -1 in., with often small broad toothed auricles. Heads campanulate, 

 shortly peduncled ; invol. bracts white, opaque ; receptacle pitted and bristly ; ligules 

 very short. Achenes ^ in. ; pappus equalling or shorter than the tubular corollas, 

 white. 



VAR. Parishii ; corymbs panicled on a stout prolongation of the branch none axil- 

 lary. Birma, Nat Toungin, Parish. 



VAR. ? Lobbii ; nerves of leaves beneath with red-brown tomentum (as in 8. rufi- 

 nervis), heads panicled as in var. Parishii but larger with longer ligules. Martaban, 

 Thoung Gyne, alt. 5000 ft., Lobb. 



VAR. ? mishmiensis ; softly cottony, branches angled, leaves as in the type, heads 

 fewer broader on longer peduncles, invol. bracts longer. Mishmi hills, Griffith. 

 Specimens very imperfect. 



59. S. rufinervis, DC. Prodr. vi. 369; shrubby, branches leaves beneath 

 and corymbs clothed with appressed white cottony wool, leaves petioled oblong- 

 ovate or elliptic acute or acuminate sharply toothed, base rounded cordate or 

 acute, nerves beneath with red tomentum, heads ^ in. long many bracteolate 

 8-10-fld. in lax branched panicled corymbs, invol. bracts 5-8 oblong acute very 

 much shorter than the flowers, ligules 4-5 short, achenes glabrous. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Simla to Kumaon, alt. 6-8000 ft. 



Habit of 8. densiflorus, and foliage as large, but nerves red beneath, base often 

 rounded or even cordate, petiole usually much longer, heads much narrower, with very 

 few flowers and very short glabrous or pubescent broader invol. bracts that are not ^ 

 the length of the expanded corolla, and receptacle very narrow. 



60. S. Shot, Clarke Comp. Ind. 187 ; shrubby, stem strongly ribbed and 

 angled, branches and corymbs loosely cottony, leaves sessile lanceolate acuminate 

 sharply toothed or serrate nearly glabrous, heads in. diam. many-fld. in axil- 

 lary and terminal subsessile corymbs with stout angled and ribbed divaricate 

 branches, invol. bracts 8-10 linear-oblong acute green glabrous, ligules 9-14, 

 achenes large ribbed glabrous. 



BHOTAN, Griffith. 



Branches with very prominent angles and ribs. Leaves (upper alone seen) 3-6 by 

 1-1^ in., rather membranous, base narrowed rounded. Corymbs with singularly stout 

 ribbed divaricate branches and peduncles ; invol. bracts rigid, with a few basal green 

 rather large and broad bracteoles ; receptacle smooth, convex ; ligules very short. 

 Achenes in. and upwards ; pappus white. A very singular species ; the specimens 

 are past flower, and the exact number of ligules is not aseertainable. 



61. S. vag-ans. Wall. Cat. 3108; quite glabrous, stem and branches long 

 slender, leaves petioled ovate- or elliptic-lanceolate more or less toothed, heads 

 j in. very narrow ebracteblate in very loose axillary and terminal few-flowered 

 corymbs with long filiform branches and peduncles, invol. bracts about 8 linear- 



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