Satts8urea.~\ LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 373 



SECT. V. ZSlatae. Stems tall, leafy, simple below, co^uibosely branched 

 above. Leaves all cauliiie or radical and cauline. Heads erect or suberect 

 numerous in branched corymbs all pedimcled ; invol. bracts rigid, anther-tails 

 fimbriate or subentire. Pappus very tlender, outer bristles 0. 



* Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, cottony beneath ; heads broad erect or siiberect. 



27. S. affinis, Spreny. mss. in DC. Prodi: vi. 540; stem 2-8 ft. simple 

 below and inflorescence glabrous, leaves lyrate-pinnatifid cottony beneath 

 radical petioled cauline sessile uppermost sinuate-lobed or entire, heads long- 

 peduncled in large open panicled corymbs, hrvol. bracts glabrate outer ovate 

 obtuse or acute inner lanceolate acuminate, recept. bristles long, achenes smooth 

 10-ribbed, outer pappus 0. Clarke Comp. Ind. 232. Aplotaxis niulticaulis, 

 DC. in Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 08 ; Prodr. vi. 540. A. carthamoides, Ham. in 

 DC. 1. c. A. Bungei, DC. I. c. 539. Hemistepha lyrata, Bunge in Fisch. et. 

 Mey. Ind. Sem. ii. 1835, 38. Serratula multicaulis, Wall. Cat.' 2897. S. car- 

 thamoides, Roxb. Hart. Beng. GO; Fl. Ind. iii. 407. Cuicus cartbanioides, 

 Watt. Cat. 2896. Cirsium lyratum, Bunge Enum. PL Chin. 3G. 



BEXGAL ; from Silhet to the foot of the Nipal Hills. LIRMA ; Saluen River, 

 Wallich. DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



Annual, stem sometimes as thick as the little finger, and peduncles grooved. 

 Leaves, radical 4-8 in., membranous, glabrous or puberulous above. Heads 1 in. diam. 

 or less; invol. bracts pale, rarely a little cottony; corolla ^ in. long, very slender, 

 pale red; anther-tails short, fimbriate. Achcncs ^ in., obovoid, tip contracted; 

 pappus hairs g- in., very slender, white. 



28. S. candle ans, Clarke Comp. Ind. 232; stem 2-5 ft. simple below 

 and inflorescence cottony., leaves oblong or obovate-oblong entire or sinuate- 

 toothed or lobulate at the base or lyrate-pinnatifid glabrous or pubescent above 

 cottony or white tomentose rarely glabrous beneath, heads long-ped uncled in 

 large open panicled corymbs, invol. bracts cottony or pubescent lanceolate 

 acuminate, recept. bristles long, achenes 5-angled muricate, outer pappus 0. 

 S. brahuica, JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 5GG. Aplotaxis caudicans, DC. Prodr. vi. 

 540. A. scaposa, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. So-, xx. 76. Cuicus candicaus, 

 Wall. Cat. 2893 A. C. D. Cirsium heterdmalluni, Sprang. Syst. iii. 372. 

 Carduus heteromallus, Don Prodr. 166, excl. $yn. Roxb. 



SUBTROPICAL and TEMPERATE WESTERX INDIA and the HIMALAYA ; from the Salt 

 Range, Hazara and Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 2-7000 ft. DISTRIO. Afghanistan. 



A more robust plant than S. affinis, with less divided leaves, larger heads, and 

 very different achenes. Leaves sometimes 18 by 5 in. Heads 1-1^ in. diam.; corolla 

 upwards of | in. long; anther-tail^ lacerate. Achcncs I in., top cup ul ar, very variable 

 as to rugosity ; pappus-hairs very slender, white, equalling the corolla. Small speci- 

 mens are scapose and even 1 -headed. 



29. S. foliosa, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 77 (Aplotaxis) ; stem 

 1-2 ft. copiously branched leafy and inflorescence pubescent, leaves 3-4 in. 

 lyrate-pinnatifid puberulous above cottony beneath lobes rounded, heads small 

 ^ in. on slender long axillary and terminal peduncles, invol. bracts very slender 

 -\vith acicular points, recept. bristles long, achenes obtusely 4-angled smooth or 

 somewhat tubercled, outer pappus 0. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 7-8000 ft., EJgeworth, S.'rach. & 

 Winterb. 



Referred by Clarke to S. candicans, but I think quite distinct in habit, and 

 especially in the small heads with almost subulate bracts, the very small corollas, and 

 short pappus, neither of which exceed 5- in. 



