3-56 LXXVIIL COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Senecio. 



oblong acute or obtuse glabrous, ligules 3-5, achenes glabrous. DC. Prodr. vi. 

 368. S. vagans, var. /3. Clarke Comp. Ind. 188. 



NIPALESE HIMALAYA ; central region, Wallich ; eastern region, Tambur river, alt. 

 6-8000 ft., J. D. H. 



One of the few perfectly glabrous Indian species of the section. Branches below 

 terete, above often ribbed or angled. Leaves 3-5 by 12 in., thin, with slender 

 nerves, base narrowed into the short petiole. Heads on almost capillary peduncles, 

 drooping ; bracts at the forks of the corymbs setaceous ; invol. bracts much shorter 

 than the flowers. Achenes | in., very slender. 



62. S. triligulatus, Ham. in Dm Prodr. 178; glabrous except some- 

 times the corymbs, stem and branches long and slender, leaves petioled ovate- 

 lanceolate caudate-acuminate more or less serrate membranous, heads in. long 

 few-fid, ebracteolate in rounded axillary and terminal much branched corymbs 

 with short slender branches and peduncles, invol. bracts 8 short linear-oblong 

 obtuse, ligules 3-4, achenes glabrous. DC. Prodr. vi. 368. S. vagans, var. a, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 188. Solidago floribundus, Wall. Cat. 3111. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, alt. 5-7000 ft., J. D. H. , 

 &c. ; Bhotan and Mishmi, Griffith. DISTRIB. Birma. 



Habit of S. vagans, but corymbs very different, rounded with shorter branches and 

 peduncles, and heads much shorter, leaves with longer points. 



63. S. Simonsii, Clarke Comp. Ind. 188; glabrous, branches flexuous 

 terete, leaves shortly petioled broadly elliptic acute toothed glabrous shining 

 beautifully reticulated, heads small ebracteolate 8-16-fld. in axillary corymbs 

 and a terminal leafy panicle, invol. bracts 7-10 oblong subacute glabrous, ligules 

 0, achenes 5-angled glabrous, pappus white. 



ASSAM, Simons. 



I have seen no specimen ; Clarke describes it as a very handsome plant with leaves 

 4-5 in. long. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



S. ? PEGU ANUS, DC. Prodr. vi. 365 ; an altogether doubtful plant, which cannot be 

 determined without a reference to the Candollean Herbarium. 



S. ANDEHSONI, Clarke Comp. Ind. 104, does not occur near the limits of British 

 India. 



80. OTHONNOPSIS, Jaub. $ Spach. 



Glabrous leafy undershrubs. Leaves alternate, sessile, fleshy. Heads 

 peduncled, solitary or panicled on the shortened leafy branches, heterogainous, 

 radiate or disciform, yellow; outer fl. $, 1-seriate, fertile, ligule entire or 3- 

 toothed or ; disk-fl. $ , sterile, tubular, limb 5-fid. Involucre ovoid or cam- 

 panulate; bracts 1-seriate, oblong, bases subconnate; receptacle flat, naked,. 

 Anther-bases entire. Style-arms of $ linear, tip truncate penicillate. Achenes 

 of $ oblong, obscurely 5-10-ribbed, pubescent or villous ; of $ slender, empty, 

 glabrous ; pappus hairs of <j> copious, oo -seriate, slender, white ; of $ scanty. 

 DISTRIB. Species 8, N. and S. Africa, and S. W. Asia. 



1. O. intermedia, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 414; branches strict erect, leaves 

 oblong elliptic or linear- oblong rarely subspathulate obtuse or acute quite entire, 

 heads subsolitary long-peduncled, invol. bracts elliptic or lanceolate shorter than 

 the ligules, achenes pubescent. Clarke Comp. Ind. 210. 



WUZARISTAN, alt. 6-7000 ft., Stewart. DISTRIB. Westward to Persia. 



A shrub, 1-3 ft. high, with woody erect leafy branches and white bark. Leaves 

 l_2i in., obscurely 3-nerved, coriaceous when dry. Heads numerous, f-1 in. diam. ; 

 peduncles 1-3 in., stout, terminal and sublateral, erect, naked, a little swollen below 



