366 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saussurea. 



short, laciniate. Ackenes obovoid, flattened, glabrous, ribbed; pappus | in., pale 

 brown with sometimes a few outer rough bristles. There is no specimen of C. tectux 

 in Wallich's Herbarium, and I follow DC. in citing it as a synonym. 



'2. S. uniflora, Wall. Cat. 2916; stem simple laxly villous, leaves 4-8 in. 

 glabrous obtuse toothed, lower long-petioled linear-oblong or -obovate, cauline 

 sessile ^-amplexicaul often acuminate, floral usually cymbiform membranous 

 often enclosing the large usually solitary subsilky head, peduncle stout silMly 

 woolly, invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate, pappus brown outer bristles scabrid. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallich. Sikkim, alt. 10-15,000 ft., 

 J. D. H., &c. 



Stem 1-2 ft., more slender than in 8. obvallata. Radical leaves with the blade 

 4-7 in., and the petiole as long; involucriform leaves purple, quite' entire, sometimes 

 small and enclosing only the very young head, at others reduced, elliptic, acuminate, 

 silkily villous on both surfaces. Head very variable in size, rarely two, 1-2 in. 

 diam., campanulate ; invol. bracts with long narrow tips ; corolla in. long; anther- 

 tails laciniate. Achenes % in., glabrous ; pappus as in 8. obvallata, but longer, \ in. 



VAR. conica ; heads many. S. conica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 224. Sikkim, Singalelah. 

 alt. 10.000 ft., Clarke. I find no character whatever, except the number of heads, 

 to separate this from S. uniflora, which is an unfortunate name. 



3. S. Schultzii, Hook. f. ; glabrous or puberulous, stem stout simple, 

 leaves toothed radical narrowed into a very stout petiole linear-oblong acute 

 midrib very thick, cauline |-amplexicaul acuminate, floral short cymbiform 

 membranous partially enclosing the numerous crowded silkily villous heads, 

 invol. bracts blackish lanceolate acuminate, pappus brown outer bristles 

 scabrid. 



WESTERN TIBET; from N. Kashmir to the Karakoram Mts., alt. 14-17,000 ft., 

 Thomson, &c. 



Root very stout ; crown clothed with the stout recurved remains of the old 

 petioles ; stem 6-16 in., often coloured. Leaves 3-5 by -l in., leathery, coarsely 

 toothed ; floral 1-2 in. long, often as broad and rosy. Heads -1 in. diam. ; peduncles 

 short, stout, densely woolly ; invol. bracts with very slender tips, corolla in. : 

 anther-tails short woolly. Achenes glabrous, ripe not seen ; pappus whiter than in 8. 

 obvallata. The late Prof. Schultz proposed (in mss.) the name of setifolia for this, but 

 I cannot see how it applies in any sense. It may be only a large form of the following. 



4. S. bracteata, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 94, t. 102; dwarf, scaberulous 

 or puberulous, stem 3-6 in. very stout, leaves linear-lanceolate or narrowly 

 elliptic acute coarsely toothed, lower narrowed into a very short petiole, upper 

 sessile, floral short cymbiform membranous coloured partly enclosing the solitary 

 large sessile subsilky head, invol. bracts blackish lanceolate acuminate, pappus 

 white, outer bristles scabrid. Clarke Comp. Ind. 224. ? S. Schlagintweitii. 

 Klatt in Sitzung. Munch. Akad. 1878, 94. , 



WESTERN TIBET ; from Ladak and Nubra eastwards to the Balch Pass (N. of 

 Kumaon), alt. 14-18,000 ft., Jacquemont, &c. 



This much resembles a diminutive form of S. Schultsii with one or two stems 

 from the root, shorter petioles, and much larger heads in proportion, varying from 

 1-1 in. diam. ; the achenes are similar, and the pappus is white \ in. long. 



SECT. 2. Acaules. Stem very short or obsolete (or elongate in &. 

 Suyhoo). Heads solitary or few, sessile or subsessile amongst the leaves. (See 

 also sessile-headed forms of species in sect. 3.) Jfr Ll-. // 



* Pappus double, hairs of loth feathery. Densely tufted dwarf herb, leaves 

 not pinnatifid. 



5. S. Thomson!, Clarke Comp. Ind. 227 ; dwarf, stemless, glabrous, 



