Saussurea.]- LXXVIIT. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 377 



Wallich (doubtfully) and Clarke have united it ; it is, however, a much smaller plant, 

 with exposed heads, narrower involucre bracts, inner pappus hairs united higher up 

 and only in. long; and the small achenes are more obconic, ^ in. long, and often 

 warted or wrinkled. The wool is pink in Sikkim specimens. 



38. S. tridactyla, Sohultz-Bip. in Herb. Ilooli. ; densely clothed with 

 matted wool, stem 3-6 in. simple clavate leafy, leaves linear or linear-obovate 

 or spathulate obtuse entire or obtusely 3-6-lobed at the apex densely woolly on 

 both surfaces, heads partially exposed, in vol. bracts linear-oblong acute shining, 

 achenes narrow 5-angled, outer pappus or of a very few scabrid bristles. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; on the Tibetan frontier, alt. 16-18,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A much more woody-rooted plant than S. gossypiphora, with a woody stock, more 

 densely leafy, and the leaves, which are covered with the same long matted wool as 

 the stem, are quite entire or tabulate only towards the apex. The heads and flowers 

 resemble closely those of S. gossypiphora, but the pappus, which is pale brown, is 

 almost invariably single. 



39. S. sorocephala, Hook. f. $ T. in Clarice Comp. Ind. 226; dwarf, 

 densely tufted, stem or very short thickly woolly or cottony, leaves -1 in. 

 obovate-lanceolate or oblong-obovate subacute entire or obscurely toothed, 

 heads exposed, invol. bracts lanceolate silky, achenes narrow 5-angled, outer 

 pappus hairs scabrid many few or 0. Aplotaxis gnaphnlodes, Royle 111 259, 

 t. 59; DC. Prodr. vi. 542. A. andryakides, DC. I.e. Ilaplotaxis sorocephala, 

 Schrenk JEnum. PL Nov. i. 43 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 673. 



WESTERN TIBET, KUNAWUR, and LAIIUL, alt. 14-18,000 ft.; from Nubra to the 

 north of Kumaon, Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. Altai Mts. 



A much smaller plant than any of the foregoing species of Eriocoryne, of tufted 

 habit, the rootstock branching repeatedly ; the leaves vary greatly in length and form ; 

 the flowering stem, when produced, is hollow at the top which is much dilated under 

 the heads, as in its allies ; the heads do not differ materially from those of S. gossy- 

 piphora, but the bracts are very membranous and glabrous, or silky at the tips ; the 

 pappus is pale brown or dull blue ; achenes not ripe. 



VAR. ? glabrata ; stem 1-2 in., leaves longer narrower toothed, cauline glabrous, 

 floral woolly, outer pappus hairs or deflexed on the achene. Western Tibet, alt. 

 15-18,000 ft., H. Strachey; Sassar, Thomson. 



90. GONIOCAULON, Ca&s. 



An erect glabrous branched annual; stem acutely 4-8-angled. Leaves nar- 

 row, alternate, toothed. Heads narrow, fascicled and corymbose, honiogamous : 

 flowers few, all Q , fertile and similar, tube slender ; limb longer, cylindric, 5-fid 

 to the middle or lower. Involucre oblong, base very narrow ; bracts oo -seriate, 

 pale, very narrow, rigid, acute, erect, not spinescent, outer gradually shorter ; 

 receptacle very narrow, paleaceous. Filaments hairy ; anther-bases sagittate, 

 connate, tails short. Style-arms filiform. Achenes glabrous, oblong, subcylin- 

 dric, about 20-ribbed, basal areole straight ; pappus scales oo -seriate, very 

 unequal. 



1. G. glabrum, Cass. in Bull Soc. Phil. 1818, and in Diet. Sc. Nat. xix. 

 201. G. indicum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 236. Amberboa indica, DC. Prodr. vi. 

 558 ; Wight Ic. t. 479 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 131. A. Goniocaulon, DC. I c. 

 Athanasia indica, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 417; Wall. Cat. 2919. Serratula indica, 

 Wall Cat. 2919. 



CENTRAL INDIA and the DECCAN ; from Eanda and Indore, Edgeworth, southwards, 

 especially in high lands lately under cultivation, Roxburgh. 



Stem 1-3 ft., strict, erect, ribbed on and between the angles, with a straight tap 



