Alnsl'cca.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 381) 



heads in interrupted spikes or spreading branched panicles, achenes obscurely 

 ribbed. Clarke Comp. Ind. 247. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 5-8000 ft., ascending to 

 10,000 in Sikkim. KIIASIA Mrs., alt. 4-5000 ft , J. D. H. $ T. T. 



Usually a more robust plant than either of the preceding. Leaves sometimes 7 

 in. long and broad, glabrous villous or densely silkily villous; petiole 3-7 in., glabrous 

 or villous. Flowering stem 1-3 ft., generally stout and red-brown. Heads ^-f in. long, 

 .subsessile or on strict stiff slender peduncles, usually glabrous ; bracts sometimes 

 numerous, the outer small and imbricating along the peduncle ; corolla g- in. Achenes 

 ] in , like those of A. pteropoda, but less distinctly ribbed ; pappus as long, brown. 

 Very variable in the number, length and breadth of the invol. bracts. 



4. A. Brandisiana, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 318 ; 1877, ii. 205 ; 

 more or less hirsute, leaves petioled oblong 1 acute quite entire base cordate 

 margins villously fringed, heads in open branched panicles. Clarke Corny. Ind. 

 247. 



LOWER BIRMA; Karen bills, alt. 2-4000 ft., Kurz. 



Leaves 2^-4^ by 1-2 in., sparsely pubescent or glabrous above, sparsely hirsute 

 beneath, densely so along the margins with curled haiis, base shortly cordate with 

 rounded lobes and a very close sinus; petiole 1-2 in., stout, hirsute. Flowering stems 

 12-18 in., pubescent or scabrid; heads long-peduncled, 3-^ in. long; corolla in. 

 Achenes unripe, silky. 



101. CATAHXXXXS, Thorns. 



An erect undershrub. Leaves alternate, petioled, obovate or oblong, obtusely 

 serrate. Heads small, narrow, in a broad terminal coiymb, yellow ?, homoga- 

 mous, few-ild. ; fl. all 5, similar, ligulate and fertile. Involucre oblong; bracts 

 few, GO -seriate, lanceolate, acute, outer shorter ; receptacle small, naked. Anther- 

 bases sagittate, tails elongate barbellate. Style filiform, obtuse; arms very 

 short, erect. Achenes narrowly turbinate, silkily villous ; pappus hairs sub-2- 

 seriate, slender, scabrid, outer shorter. 



1. C. baccharoides, Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 343, t. 4 ; Clarke 

 Comp. Ir.d. 248. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, on the Sewalik hills. Ttoylc. 



Branches subsilkily pubescent. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1 in:, coriaceous, narrowel into 

 the short petiole, i-amplexicaul, glabrous ; nerves prominent on both surfaces when 

 dry. Corymbs dichotomously branched ; branches slender, puberulous, suberect ; 

 heads ^ in. long; ligules spreading; involucre much shorter than the flowers; corolla 

 ^ in. Achenes ~ in. long; pappus ^ in., white. 



102. GERE ERA, Oronov. 



Scapigerous herbs. Leaves radical. Scape naked or scaly. Heads solitary, 

 heterogamous, radiate, rarely homogamous and discoid, yellow pink or white; 

 ray-h 1 ., if present, l-2-seriate,"<j> and fertile; disk-fl. $ , fertile; both 2-lipped, outer 

 lip of rav-fl. with a 3-toothed ligule, inner 2-partite; tips of disk-fl. more equal, 

 outer 3-4-fid, innerentire or 2-partite. Involucre turbinate or broadly campanulate ; 

 bracts 2-00 -seriate, narrow, acute, outer shorter ; receptacle flat. Anther-bases 

 sagittate, tails long. Style-arms of > linear, obtuse. Achenes compressed, 5-ribbed, 

 papillose, tip contracted or beaked; pappus copious, hairs slender, smooth or scabrid. 

 DISTRIB. About 20 species, African and Asiatic, temperate or mountain. 



* Heads rayed. 



1. G-. piloselloides, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. vii. 1C ; leaves shortly petioled 

 elliptic or obovate-oblong obtuse quite entire villously hirsute beneath, scape 



