372 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saussurea, 



SECT. IV. Corymbiferae. Stem 1-3 ft., simple, leafy. Leaves not 

 pinnatifid or lobed, radical 0, cauliue large sessile or petioled. Heads rather 

 small, 5 | in., in terminal dense corymbs ; receptacle small. Achenes smooth, 

 angled ; outer pappus bristles few or many, scabrid. 



23. S. Candolleana, Wall. Cat. 3289; stem 1-3 ft. more or less 

 winged by the decurrent petioles or leaf bases, leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate denticulate glabrous above cobwebby or cottony beneath, 

 base rounded or abruptly or gradually narrowed decurrent, heads ^-f in. diain. 

 or in dense terminal corymbs, invol. bracts ovate obtuse or acute glabrous or 

 silky, receptacle small bristles longer than the narrow smooth 4-5-angled 

 achenes, outer pappus bristles short scabrid. S. pterocaulon, Dene, in Jacq* 



Voy. Sot. 95, t. 103. Aplotaxis Candolleana, DC. Prodr. vi. 541. Jurinea 

 adenocarpa, Ledeb. _Z<7. Ross. ii. 765 : Schrenk. Enum. PI. Nov. i. 46. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt. 8-10,000 ft., Falconer, &c., to Sikkim, 

 alt. 1 1-13,000 ft., J. D. H. DISTRIB. Soongaria. 



Stem stout, deeply grooved. Leaves 3-6 by 1-3^ in., oblong and sessile but 

 nerveless, abruptly narrowed below the middle, membranous, rarely quite glabrous 

 beneath. Heads shortly pedunclcd ; corolla \-^ in. ; anther-tails fimbriate. Achenes 

 | in., long, narrow, shining ; pappus ^ in. long, pale brown. 



24. S. piptathera, Edyew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 76; stem 1-3 ft. 

 not winged, leaves oblong- or ovate-oblong with a contracted or dilated ^-am- 

 plexicaul auricled base sharply toothed glabrous above cottony rarely glabrate 

 beneath, heads ^ in. in a crowded dense corymb, invol. bracts glabrate or silky 

 outer ovate obtuse, inner lanceolate acute, recept. bristles longer than the 

 achenes, outer pappus bristles short scabrid. Aplotaxis discolor, DC. Piodi\ 

 vi. 541. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Chumba to Kuniaon, alt. 9-12,000 ft., Itoyle, &c. 



Very similar to S. Candolleana in the head, flowers, achenes. &c., but at once- 

 distinguished by the stem not being winged, and Ly the leaf-base. Specimens from 

 Herb. Falconer (without locality) have the leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces. 



25. S. Clarkei, Ilook.f.; stem 4-6 in. stout pubescent, leaves 4r-5 iir. 

 obovate acute sessile or contracted into a winged petiole sharply toothed 

 membranous puberulous above cottony or glabrate beneath, heads gin. diam. in a 

 dense terminal cluster, invol. bracts glabrous or cottony outer ovate acute innev 

 lanceolate acuminate, recept. bristles longer than the achanes. S. Candolleana, 

 Clarke Comp. 2nd. 230, not of WallicJi. 



KASHMIR, Falconer-, Tilail, alt, 13-14,000 ft,, Clarke. 



This is in habit intermediate between 8. pterocaulon and S. Atkinsoni, agreeing 

 with the former in the heads, flowers, &c., but differing in the small size, peculiar 

 habit and leaf-base; and from the latter (which it, resembles in the foliage) in tho 

 stout stem, small crowded heads, and recept. bristles. Pappus brown. 



26. Si elliptic a, Clarke mss. ; stem 4-6 in. slender cottony, leaves 3-4 

 in. long-petioled elliptic-oblong or -lanceolate acute irregularly toothed thinly 

 cottony on both surfaces, heads ^ in. diam. in a small rather lax terminal 

 corymb, invol. bracts lanceolate acuminate subsilkily villous, receptacle naked, 

 outer pappus bristles numerous scabrid. 



WESTERN TIBET ; Karakoram, alt. 14,000 ft., Clarke. 



I have seen only three specimens of this very distinct species. Grey-green when 

 dry ; stem ascending from a slender simple or divided stock, curved. Leaves flaccid, 

 narrowed into a very slender cottony petiole. Corolla nearly ^ in.; anther-tails 

 laciniate, hardly woolly. Achenes immature ; pappus white, except towards the base. 

 Closely allied to S. ovata, Benth. (in "Henderson's Yarkand," p. 325), from Eastern 

 Turkistan, but differing in tiie form of the leaves. 



