374 LXXVIU. COMPOSITE. (J. B. Hooker.) \_Saussurca. 



f * Leaves entire or subptnnati/id, cottony or tomentose beneath : heads narrow, 

 erect. 



30. S. albescens, Hook. /. # T. in Clarke Comp. Ind. 233; stem 6-10 

 ft. simple below and leaves beneath densely or laxly cottony or tomentose, 

 leaves 4-12 in. acute or acuminate entire or sinuate-lobed or subpinnatifid 

 glabrous scabrid or cobwebby above with slender branching nerves, lower 

 narrowly oblong petioled, upper sessile ovate or linear or oblong-ovate, heads 

 narrow ^-f in. long in copious long peduncled terminal and axillary -flat-topped 

 corymbs, invol. bracts erect glabrous rarely cottony rigid purplish outer ovate 

 acute, inner lanceolate, recept. bristles long, achenes narrow 4-angled muricate 

 above, outer pappus 0. ? S. chenopodifolia, Klatt in Sitzungsb. Munch. Akad. 

 1878, 92. Serratula albescens, Wall. Cat, 2918. Aplotaxis albescens, DC. 

 Prodr. vi. 540. 



WESTERN and CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; from Murrce to Nipal, alt. 6-10,000 fr. 



Stem strict, erect, slender for tho height of the plant. Leaves very variable in 

 length and breadth, tip and teeth apiculate. Heads peduncled, erect ; receptacle very 

 narrow, bristles longer than the achenes ; corolla |- in. ; anther-cells fimbriate. 

 Achenes |-| in. long, top much cupped ; pappus white, g ^ in. 



VAR. brachycephala ; leaves very scabrid above, heads ^ in. long fewer on shorter 

 branches more rounded at the base, invol. bracts shorter inner more ovate, corolla and 

 pappus-hairs in. Kashmir, Stewart; Mozufferabacl, at the foot of the Kashmir 

 hills. Falconer. The few short broad flat heads of this look different from those of 

 S. albescens, but there are many intermediate forms. I have seen no achenes. 



* Leaves lyratc-pinnatifid, cottony or tomentose beneath; heads inclined 

 nodding ; recept. bristles very long. 



31. S. hypoleuca, Sprang, mss. in DC. Prodr. vi. 541 ; stem simple or 

 branched above leafy, leaves lyrate or lyrate-pinnatifid sinuate-toothed glabrous 

 above cottony or white beneath membranous terminal lobe large deltoid acute 

 lateral generally one pair triangular acute, heads 1 J-2 in. diam. globose nodding, 

 invol. very broad and open bracts lanceolate acuminate ciliate, recept. bristles 

 exceeding the clavellate pappus, achenes short 4-angled tubercled, pappus single. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 234. Carduus auriculatus, Wall Cat. 2899. Aplotaxis 

 auriculata, DC. I. c. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 7-13,000. 



Stem rather slender, 2-5 ft., glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 3-8 in., variable in 

 breadth, petioled or sessile, petiole auricled at the base or not, terminal lobe sometimes 

 5 in. diam. Heads long-peduncled, inclined or nodding, very many-fld., base often 

 intruded; invol. bracts often recurved; corolla ^ in., limb as long as the tube; 

 anther-tails long, subulate, quite entire or split near the tip. Achenes ^ in. long, 

 almost cubical, -with obtuse angles, black, strongly tubercled, tip contracted with a 

 terminal toothed cup; pappus in. brown. This and the following are quite unlike, 

 any other Indian species, and are the only ones with decidedly nodding heads. 



32. S. deltoidea, Clarke Comp. Ind. 235, var.a and (3; stem tall simple 

 below branched above, leaves petioled membranous sinuate-toothed above 

 glabrous or scaberulous beneath white-tomeutose or cottony, lower lyrate-pin- 

 natifid terminal lobe very large deltoid lateral variable, upper triangular ovate 

 or deltoid, heads r/-li in. very broad nodding pauicled or racemose on the branches 

 of a terminal leafy panicle, invol. bracts hoary short ovate obtuse or long and 

 lanceolate tips and margins purple, recept. bristles shorter than the pappus, 

 achenes short 4-5-angled smooth tubercled or scaly, pappus single. Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 204. Aplotaxis deltoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 541. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 6-11,500 ft. 

 N, or the Xattoung hills, F. Mason. 



