Jurinea.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 370 



slender 1-headed cottony peduncles, leaves sessile decurrent lanceolate acute 

 quite entire or sinuate-toothed, heads 1 in. diam., invol. bracts appressed, outer 

 ovate acuminate lanceolate green with scarious margins, inner elongate, recept. 

 bristles half as long as the involucre, anther-tails subentire, achenes obconic 

 compressed angles thickened pale smooth shining, pappus hairs many-seriate very 

 unequal rough persistent. 



WESTEEN PUNJAB; Peshawar, Vicary. DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



Whole plant 6-12 in. high. Leaves 2-3 in. Heads pale; invol. bracts sparsely 

 cottony, inner sometimes red ; corolla ^ in. ; tube very slender, limb inclined. Achenes 

 i in., crowned with the stout thickened base of the style ; pappus ^ in., white, shining, 

 innermost hairs very stiff, two much longer than the others and flattened. Boissier's 

 description is drawn up from very imperfect materials. The basal areole of the achcno 

 refers this plant to Jttrineea, but it is a Serratvla in habit. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



J. ROSULATA, Klatt in Sitzungsb. Munch. AJcad. 1878, 96; from the Punjab and 

 Kashmir. The few words of description does not enable me to say whether this is a 

 Jurinea or not; the appendaged invol. bracts produced into a long spine are unlike 

 those of any Indian species. 



J. GNAPHALIOIDES, Klatt I. c. ; also from the Punjab. This also is undeterminable 

 from the meagre description. 



92. SERRATUXiA, Linn. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, toothed or pinnatifid. Heads corymbose, 

 subsolitary, homoganious ; flowers all $ , similar, purple violet or white, all sub- 

 oblique or regular, tube slender, limb elongate 5-fid. Involucre ovoid or globose ; 

 bracts oo -seriate, inner narrow elongate, outer shorter broader acute or awned 

 not spinescent rarely obtuse or with a lanceolate appendage ; receptacle bristly. 

 Filaments glabrous ; anther-bases sagittate ; auricles connate, shortly mucronate 

 or tailed. Style hairy or with a hairy ring below the slender arms. Achenes 

 glabrous, oblong, subterete or obtusely angled, basal areole very oblique ; pappus 

 bristles oo -seriate, rigid, serrulate, unequal, outer often very short. BISTROS. 

 About 30 species, Europe, N. Africa, West Central and Alpine Asia. 



1. S. pallid a, DC. Prodr. vi. 670; glabrous or scaberulous, stem simple 

 or divided below, branches ending in long leafless 1-headed peduncles, leaves 

 polymorphous from broadly ovate or oblong- and toothed to linear and deeply 

 runcinate pinnatifid, heads 1-1^ in. diam., invol. bracts appressed, outer ovate 

 acute, inner linear-oblong with scarious obtuse tips, recept. bristles longer than 

 the obovate obcompressed smooth pale achenes. Clarke Comp. Ind. 237. Cen- 

 taurea pallid a, Wall. Cat. 2983. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Kumaon, alt. 6-8000 ft. 



Stem 1-3 ft., simple or sparingly branched from the tomentose base, stout or slen- 

 der, usually scaberulous or puberulous. Leaves glabrous or young pubescent, radical 

 with long slender petioles, in the largest forms 8-12 by 5-6 in., acute or obtuse, 

 sharply toothed, base entire cordate rounded acute or cut into short lobes ; in more 

 ordinary forms 4-6 by l-2 in., deeply pinnatifid or runcinate, with a toothed termi- 

 nal and oblong or triangiilar acute entire or toothed lateral lobes ; in smallest forms 

 ^ 1 in. long. Heads broad; peduncle stout or slender, often 18 in.; invol. bracts 

 glabrous; corolla | in.; anther-tails short, entire. Achenes | in., obovoid-oblong, 

 broad, flattened, pale, quite smooth, obscurely ribbed; pappus hairs rigid, in., 

 brown. 



93. TRICHOLEFIS, DC. 



Annual or perennial branched unarmed herbs. Leaves entire toothed or the 

 lower pinnatifid, often with raised dots on the surfaces. Heads terminal, soli- 



