382 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Tricliolepis. 



more subulate shorter invol. bracts, distantly ribbed achenes, and conspicuous 

 though short pappus ; the leaves also are more entire and have stronger nerves. 



8. T. ang-ustifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 564, excl. syn. ; quite glabrous, very 

 slender, branches spreading angled quite smooth, leaves sessile but not amplexi- 

 caul lower obovate upper linear-oblong all entire or subserrate covered with 

 raised points, heads small - in. diam. ovoid on slender peduncles, invol. bracts 

 acicular from a lanceolate base recurved glabrous, recept. bristles longer than 

 the oblong smooth faintly ribbed achenes, pappus 0. Clarice Comp. Ind. 240. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; Travancore, Klein Mangalore, HohenacJcer ; Canara, 

 Thomson. 



A very slender species, at times resembling in habit T. radicans, at others more 

 erect with longer straighter branches, small heads, and achenes like those of T. 

 amplcxicaulis, but only -*- in. long. 



9. T. tibetica, Hook. f. $ T. in Clarke Comp. Ind. 241 ; woody below, 

 quite glabrous, branches erect cylindric quite smooth, leaves small sessile 

 coriaceous scattered without raised points, lower distantly pinnatifid upper 

 ovate linear entire base simple, heads -f in. diam. scaberulous, outer invol. 

 bracts ovate-subulate inner subulate-lanceolate rigid suberect, recept. bristles 

 longer than the linear-oblong silvery truncate achenes, pappus a brush of com- 

 pressed bristles twice as long as the achenes. 



WESTERN TIBET and NORTHERN KASHMIR; alt. 8-12,000 ^ft., Falconer, &c. 

 DISTRIB. Affghanistan. 



A corymbosely branched undershrub, about a foot high, naked below ; branches 

 slender, virgate, terminating in a strict peduncle with a small erect head. Leaves 

 1-3 in. long, very narrow, obtuse, lobes of the pinnatifid ones few spreading or 

 recurved triangular or oblong acute, upper | 1 in., ~-^ in. diam., subacute. Invol. 

 bracts appressed, minutely scabrid, inner in. long ; corolla red, more than | in. long. 

 AcJienes (unripe) - in., obscurely ribbed, top with a distinct broad rim to which the 

 pappus is attached, basal areole very oblique ; pappus-hairs - in. long, nearly white, 

 one or two of the innermost often much longer than the rest, and flattened as in 

 Jurinea modesta and Volutarella divaricata. This has the habit, truncate achene, 

 and pappus of Jurinea chcetolepis, Boiss., from Affghanistan (Tricholepis spartoides, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 241), which has the involucre of a Tricholepis, and the oblique 

 basal areole of the achene, and is rightly referred to the latter genus by Clarke. 



* * * Pappus-hairs feathery. 



10. T. Stic tophy Hum, Clarke Comp. Ind. 241; quite glabrous, stem 

 or 6-12 in. sparingly branched from the base, branches angular grooved leafy 

 below, leaves sessile ^-amplexicaul linear or ligulate quite entire or obscurely 

 toothed acute covered with obscure raised points, nerves parallel to the midrib, 

 heads 1-1| in. diam. at the naked ends of the branches glabrous, invol. bracts 

 appressed glabrous outer ovate acuminate inner linear-lanceolate with erect 

 flexuous tips, recept. bristles longer than the linear-oblong compressed many- 

 ribbed truncate achenes, pappus copious of slender feathery hairs. Stictophyllum 

 glabrum. Edgew. in Trans Linn. Soc. xx. 78. Onicus ansrustifolius, Wall. Cat. 

 2915. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Garwhal at Kansrow Ghat, Falconer; Subsiwalik hills, in 

 grassy places, Edgeworth. CENTRAL INDIA (probably Saugur), Jerdon. 



Root perennial ? ; habit subscapigerous. Leaves 3-5 by - in., flat, quite smooth ; 

 midrib slender. Heads rarely 2 together ; invol. bracts ^- in. ; corolla fin., straight. 

 Achenes ^ in. long, pale, margins rounded, basal areole very oblique, top rather 

 dilated, as in T. tibetica ; pappus in. long, soft, silvery brown, hairs slightly united 

 at the base. An anomalous plant, with the habit and involucre of Serratitla, and the 

 pappus of Jurinea', the achene is, however, quite that of Tricholepis tibetica, and 



