Tricholepis.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE, (J. D. Hooker.) 383 



different from that of other species of the genus, with which, however, it agrees in 

 the leaves having raised points (whence the name Stictophyllurii, Edgeworth). 

 Wallich's specimen, from Herb. Hamilton, has no habitat. 



DOUBTFUL AND IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



T. MONTANA, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 131 ; " a coarser species (than T. glabcrrima), 

 leaves obovate-oblong very coarsely toothed or sometimes pinnatifid; differs from T. 

 angustifolia also in having long slender stigmas." The Ghats. I know nothing of 

 this species. 



T. KOYLET, Hook. f. ; shrubby, branches petioles and leaves beneath densely 

 clothed with cottony tomentum, leaves 3 by 1^ in. elliptic or ovate subacute toothed 

 glabrate above with raised points, petiole ^ in., head solitary terminal large erect 



2 in. diam., peduncle stout, in vol. broadly campanulate cottony, bracts very numerous 

 outer appressed small ovate with appressed spinous points, innermost linear-lanceo- 

 late 1 in. long with softer subrecurved points, filaments papillose, anther-tails toothed, 

 achenes?, pappus in. scabrid pale yellow red. Jurinea? Tricholepis, DC. Prodr. vi. 

 678. N.W. India, Boyle. I have seen very imperfect specimens of this very distinct 

 species, which though referred by De Candolle doubtfully to Jurinea is, as far as can 

 be judged in the absence of achenes, clearly a Tricholepis. 



94. VOZ.UTAREZ.ZiA, Cass. 



Annuals. Leaves alternate. Heads heterogainous, purple violet or blue ; 

 outer fl. 1-seriate, neuter ; disk-fl. , fertile, tube slender short, limb cylindric 

 5-fid. Involucre ovoid or globose ; bracts oo -seriate, innermost narrow acute ; 

 outer shorter, acute, awned or spinescent ; receptacle flat, densely bristly. 

 Filaments glabrous or hairy ; anther-bases sagittate, auricles connate shortly 

 tailed. Style filiform, arms free or connate. Achenes obovoid or oblong, subu- 

 late or angled, 5-15-ribbed, often striate and pitted between the ribs ; basal 

 areole oblique or lateral ; pappus bristles oo -seriate, outermost gradually shorter, 

 innermost 2-4 dilated and flattened. DISTKIB. Species 4 or 5, S. Europe, N. 

 Africa, W. Asia and India, 



V. divaricata, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 476, excl. some syns. ; dichoto- 

 mously branched, spreading, leaves oblong or obovate entire toothed or pinnati- 

 fid, lobes mucronate often undulate or crisped, heads |-in. diam., invol. bracts 

 ovate with, a long spreading or recurved spinescent awn, achenes 4-5-angled 

 striate and punctate. Clarke Cotnp. Ind. 242 ; excl. syns. Tricholepis pro- 

 cumbens, Wight Ic. t. 1139 ; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 131. T. Candolleana, 

 Wight in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 81, t. 4. Microlonchus divaricatus, DC. 

 Prodr. vi. 562. Centaurea divaricata, Wall. Cat. 2984. Carduus ramosus, 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 407. 



CENTRAL, WESTERN and SOUTHERN INDIA; from Eehar and the upper Gangetic 

 plains to Lahore ; and from Scind to Mysore and the Deccan; ascending to 3000 ft. 

 in the N.W. Himalaya. DISTRIB. Afghanistan, Beluchistan. 



An annual straggling stiff weed, troublesome from its hard head with spiny 

 invol. bracts ; branches 1-2 ft. long, angled, smooth or scabrid. Leaves very variable 

 1-2 by -| in., rarely 6 by 3 in , sessile, base simple, lobes rounded. Invol. bracts 

 glabrate reddish, spines 5-^ in. smooth; receptacular bristles short; corolla in., 

 straight, pale purple. Achenes | in., narrow, acutely angled, grooved and punctate 

 between the angles, base narrow ; areole small lateral deeply excavated, top broad 

 truncate ; pappus spiny of many unequal scaberulous hairs \ in. long, silvery brown, 



3 or 4 innermost flattened and long. In the Genera Plantarum, Centaurea patula, 

 DC., and Scrratula divaricata, Fisch. & Mey., are erroneously (as Boissier has pointed 

 out, Fl. Orient, iii. 605, 701) referred to this. 



