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



1 \ijtjjv.s more than \ in., pale brown. I can find no difference whatever between the 

 two following forms except that of the pappns. 



VAR. 1. Outer pappus of plumose bristles. Kashmir. 



VAR. 2. Outer pappus of scabrid bristles or 0. Western Tibet and Kashmir. 



* Leaves pinnatifid, glabrous on both surfaces. 



Itj. S. Anderson!, Clarke Comp. Ind. 226; perfectly glabrous, stem 

 or 3-6 in., leaves spreading linear-elongate sessile or petioled membranous pale 

 beneath runcinate-pinnatin'd, lobes distant small short ovate and acute or 

 subulate, heads solitary ?-l in., invol.-bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate with 

 dark borders, recept. bristles few, anther-tails woolly, achenes muricate, pappus 

 dark brown outer 0. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Lachen, alt. 10-12,000 ft.,J.D.H.; Jongri, alt. 13,000 ft., 

 Clarke. 



This much resembles . taraxicifolia, but is perfectly glabrous, with very short 

 distant leaf-lobes or -teeth, between which the rachis is linear, the invol. bracts are 

 much broader and highly coloured, the achenes and pappus are very different. 



17. S. eriostemon, Wall. Cat. 2912 ; nearly glabrous, stem stout 

 elongate 6-12 in. 1 -leaved, leaves membranous almost all radical linear pinnati- 

 fidly lobed and toothed, lobes and teeth short broad acute and aristate, head 

 solitary 1-1 ^ in. diam.,. invol. bracts lanceolate subsquarrose, recept. bristles 

 long, anther-tails finabriate, achenes smooth 4-angled, outer pappus 0. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 229. Aplotaxis nepalensis, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 380 ; Deless. Ic. 

 Sel. IT. t. 67; DC. Prodr. vi. 529. Centaurea taraxicifolia, Don Prodr. 167; 

 Less. in. Linn&a, vi. 88. Eriostemon taraxicifolium, Less. Synops. 12. 



NIPAT, Wallich. 



The foliage of this resembles strongly that of S. Andcrsoni, but the achenes are 

 very different. 



* Leaves entire or nearly so, tomentose villous or woolly beneath, or on both 

 surfaces, glandular-pubescent in S. glanduligera. 



18. S. Roylei, Clarke Comp. Ind. 229, excl. syn, ; stem stout 6-18 in. 

 glabrate or cottony, radical leaves 3-10 in. petioled erect elongate-lanceolate 

 acuminate quite entire or sinuate or pinnatifid towards the base only, cauline 

 few sessile |-amplexicaul, heads large 1^-2 in. usually bracteate tomentose, 

 invol. bracts lanceolate, recept. bristles equalling the long smooth achenes, 

 anther-tails woolly, outer pappus bristles scabrid. S. uniflora, Clarke I. c. 229, 

 not of Wallich, Aplotaxis Roylei, DC. Prodr. vi. 539. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kunawur, alt. 11-14,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 



Root-stock stout, usually simple, clothed with the remains of broad petiolar 

 sheaths. Stem usually very stout and thickened under the head. Leaves very 

 variable in length and breadth, much narrowed at both ends, sometimes runcinate or 

 lyrate-pinnatin'd, sometimes snow-white beneath, nearly glabrous in a specimen from 

 Munro, nearly 2 in. broad in some of Thomson's from the Werang Pass. Invol. bracts 

 long, straight ; corolla short for the size of the head, about % in. long. Achenes |- in. 

 and upwards, narrow, angled and delicately ribbed ; pappus ^ in., pale brown, outer 

 bristles numerous, sometimes unilateral. 



19. S. graminifolia, Wall, Cat. 2911 ; stem 6-10 in. very stout much 

 thickened upwards leafy densely silkily woolly and shining, rarely glabrate, 

 leaves very slender narrowly linear from a dilated shining scarious base flexuous 

 tomentose beneath, margins quite entire recurved, head solitary 1-1 j in. diam. 

 densely silkily woolly bracteate by many spreading or reflexed or linear leaves, 



