Saussurea.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 369 



densely bristly, anther-tails short woolly, achenes glabrous, outer pappus-hairs 

 few scabrid. DC. Prodr. vi. 532; Clarke Comp. 2nd. 228. S. csespitosa, Wall. 

 Cat. 2913 ; Clarke I. c. Aplo taxis casspitosa, DC. L c. 539. Cyathidium taraxi- 

 cifolium, LindL in Royle III. 251, t. 5G, f. 2. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA; from Kunawur to Sikkim, alt. 12-15,000 ft. WESTERN 

 TIBET ; Rupchu, alt. 16,000 ft,, Heyde. 



Very variable ; stock stout, clothed with the black remains of withered petioles, 

 simple or divided ; stem rarely 6 in., rather slender. Heads very variable in breadth 

 and shape, and the bracts in breadth, outer sometimes with recurved tips; corolla 

 upwards of ^ in. Palpus pale brown, ^ in. 



VAR. depressa; dwarf, stemless, leaves 2-3 in. more regularly and closely pinnati- 

 fid with recurved short lobes. Garwhal to Sikkim. alt. 12-15,000 ft. 



13. S. K-unthiana, Clarke Comp. Ind. 225; dwarf, stemless, leaves 

 petioled spreading linear-elongate piunatifid or runcinate glabrous or pubescent 

 above white-tomentose beneath, lobes quadrate semi-circular or oblong entire or 

 lobulate and toothed, tip teeth and lobes apiculate or mucronate, head solitary 

 sessile 1-1 in. diam., invol. bracts lanceolate inner often with subsquarrose tips, 

 anther-tails short woolly, receptacle bristly, achenes muricate, outer pappus- 

 hairs few scabrid. Leontodon ? Kunthianmn, Wall. Cat. 3292. Aplotaxis 

 leontodontoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 539. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Sikkim, and WESTERN TIBET, alt. 11- 

 16,000ft. t 



Very similar ibdeed to var. depressa of S. taraxicifolia, from which the muricate 

 achenes at once distinguish it, the lobes of the leaf are ^-^ in. long, usually broader, 

 more square and lobulate, and their upper surface is never glabrous. 



VAR. major; larger in all its parts, leaves sometimes pinnatisect, lobes ^- in. 

 loss recurved broadly oblong or ovate sinuate or subpinnatifid scabrid above, invol. 

 bracts glabrous more coriaceous, anther tails more conspicuoxisly woolly. Sikkim, 

 interior ranges, alt, 13-16,000 ft. 



VAR. filicifolia ; leaves pinnatifid nearly to the midrib, lobes regular oblong or 

 linear-oblong entire or auricled at the base of the upper margin obtuse or apiculate. 

 Sikkim, Jongri and Yakla, alt. 13,000 ft., Clarke. Habit of a small Polypodium. 



14. S. polysticlioides, Hook. f. ; dwarf, stemless, leaves petioled 

 spreading linear-elongate pinnatisect glabrous above white-tomentose beneath, 

 segments rounded ovate or subquadrate spinulous-toothed, heads -1 in. sessile 

 or peduncled glabrous, invol. bracts lanceolate acuminate erect or subsquarrosely 

 recurved, anther-tails short woolly, receptacle naked, achenes muricate, outer- 

 pappus-hairs few scabrid. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; alt. 13-16,000 ft.. J. D. H., Elwcs, Clarke. 

 Very closely allied indeed to S. Kunthiana, but the leaves are pinnate and the 

 receptacle without bristles ; the leaf segments are horizontal and slightly recurved. 



15. S. Falconer!, Hook. f. ; stem very stout short or long cottony or 

 woolly, leaves petioled linear-elongate cottony above and more so beneath 

 irregularly sinuate-pinnatifid or toothed, lobes or teeth distant spreading or 

 recurved broadly triangular acute, heads 1-2 in. diam., invol. bracts linear- 

 lanceolate cottony, recept, bristles shorter than the smooth achenes, anther-tails 

 short woolly, pappus double or single. 



WESTERN TIBET; Karakoram, alt. 14,500 ft., Falconer, Clarke. KASHMIR, alt. 

 13,000ft. Clarke. 



Very similar to S. taraxicifolia, but distinguished by the woolly habit and very 



stout stem or peduncle. Stock stout or slender, sometimes very thickly clothed with 



the black shining remains of the old petioles. Stem 1-6 in., nearly in. diam., 



sparingly leafy. Leaves 3-6 by -| in. Invol. bracts pale, erect, corolla \\ in. 



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