Saussurea.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 371 



invol. bracts narrow lanceolate, recept. bristles short, aclienes (unripe) short 

 smooth, outer pappus bristles many short scabrid. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kumaon, Blinkworth, alt. 12,000 ft., EJgeworth. WESTERN 

 TIBET; Salt Marshes, Ladak and below the Ladak Pass, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Thomson. 

 Barji Kang, alt. 13,500 ft., Strach. $ Winterb. 



Jic-ot long, stout ; crown divided. Leaves 2-5 by ^-^ in. ; sheathing petioles 

 membranous, 1 in., glabrous except at the margins, contrasting with the silky wool of 

 the stem, which is ^ in. thick round the base of the head. Invol. bracts membranous ; 

 corolla not in. long; anther-tails fimbriate. Achcnes (unripe) small, ^ in. long ; 

 pappus pale brown. A very distinct species. 



VAR. glabrata ; sparsely woolly, more slender, leaves more erect, invol. bracts 

 shorter and straighter not hidden below in silky wool, achenes longer pale shining 

 4-angled. Western Tibet. Though differing so much in the involucre and in woolli- 

 ness from the type, I can hardly doubt this being a form of S. graminifolia. 



20. S. Hookeri, Clarke Comp. Ind. 230; stem 4-6 in. stout much 

 thickened (and hollow) upwards silkily woolly, leaves slender narrowly linear 

 from a dilated scarious base curved tomentose beneath margins quite entire 

 recurved, head solitary 1-1 in. bracteate by broad obtuse short appressed 

 leaves, invol. bracts broadly lanceolate or ovate, recept. bristles long dense, 

 nchenes short, outer pappus bristles short scabrid. 



ALPINE HIMALAYA; Tibetan frontier of Kumaon, Balch Pass, alt. 16,000 ft., 

 Strach. $ Winterb. ; and of Sikkim, alt. 17,000 ft., J. D. H. t Elwcs. 



Rootstock stout, simple or divided, clothed with black scarious dried petiolar 

 sheaths ; stem shorter stouter and more leafy than in S. graminifolia ; leaves rather 

 Lroader, more coriaceous, floral usually short and broad, but very variable ; corolla 

 nearly |- in. ; achenes unripe very small, pappus very pale in. 



21. S. hieracioides, Hook. f. ; softly villous, stem 4-8 in. slender, 

 radical leaves petioled elliptic acute villous on both surfaces quite entire or 

 obscurely toothed nerves spreading, cauline few linear-oblong', heads 1-1 j in. 

 diam. solitary woolly at the base, invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate erect coloured, 

 recept. bristles short, achenes very short smooth, outer pappus bristles scabrid. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA; Tungu, near the Tibetan frontier, alt. 12-1-1,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Habit of Hieracium alpinum, uniformly villous with soft spreading hairs. Stock 

 short, stout, simple, clothed with scarious dark petiolar remains. Leaves few, radical 

 1^-2^ by f-1^- in., green ; petiole variable, slender. Invol. bracts wholly or margined 

 with purple, inner glabrous ; corolla 1 5- in. ; anther-tails short, very woolly. Achenes 

 (unripe) ~ in., very broad; pappus ^ in. pale. 



22. S. glandulig-era, Sc7mltz-Bip. in Herb. Hook.-, stem 4-8 in. and 

 leaves on both surfaces glandular-pubescent or -puberulous, leaves narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate irregularly sinuate toothed, petiole dilated into a narrow 

 glabrous sheath with often woolly base and margins, cauline subsimilar, heads 

 solitary 1-1^ in. usually bracteate by linear leaves, invol. bracts lanceolate green 

 erect pubescent or woolly, recept. bristles long 1 , achenes 4-angled scaberulous, 

 outer pappus bristles short scabrid. 



WESTERN TIBET; Ladak, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Thomson, Heyde; Lahoul, Hay. 



Root very stout; stock branched. Leaves 2-4 in. (larger in var. major), pale 

 green ; petiolar sheaths of radical, very conspicuous pale chestnut brown, ribbed, with 

 soft white silky wool at the bases of the younger. Invol. bracts pale, not numerous; 

 corolla nearly ^ in. ; anther-tails short woolly. Achenes in. long, pale, much cupped 

 at the top ; pappus-hairs ^ in., pale brown or blueish. 



VAR. major; taller, leaves large and broader 8-10 by f-2 in. puberulous only, 

 heads 1-3, corolla f in. Piti, alt. 14-17,000, Thomson. Tibet north of Kumaon, 

 alt. 16,000 ft., Strach. $ Winterb. This approaches 8. bracteata. 



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