i.xxvin. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 397 



Root-stock long, creeping-, sometimes divided. Leaves |-l in., rather succulent, 

 tip broad rounded or acute. Scapes or peduncles shorter than the leaves, pubescent 

 or glabrato. Heads quite glabrous, 20-30-fld. ; inner inv^l. bracts 10-12, green, or 

 the overlapped edges pale. Closely allied to C. deprcssa. 



11. C. depressa, Hook. f. $ Thorns.; perennial, stemless, puberulous, 

 leaves rosulate very stoutly petioled ovate or rounded obscurely toothed or 

 sinuate-toothed 5-nerved from near the base, heads crowded amongst the radical 

 leaves i in. loug-peduncled bracteolate, in vol. bracts strap-shaped obtuse or sub- 

 acute nearly glabrous, achenes very slender fusiform beaked ribbed quite smooth 

 shorter than the white smooth pappus. C. glomerata, Clarke Comp. 2nd. 255, 

 excl. syn. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; near the Tibetan frontier, alt. 15-17,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Root as thick as the little linger and crown woody. Leaves 1-2 in. long, rather 

 fleshy, base rounded; petiole as long or shorter, very thick. Heads very numerous, 

 'invol. bracts green, inner with searious margins, base rather thickened in fruit, 

 glabrous or with a few hispid hairs. Achenes 5- in., dark brown with a pale beak; 

 pappus ;j-7f in. 



SECT. TV. XZieracioides. Heads rather broad, panicled or racemose ; 

 outer invol. bracts very short, inner linear 1-seriate. Achenes small, slender, 

 narrowed at both ends ; pappus hairs brownish, rigid, brittle. 



12. C. silhetensis, Hook, f. ; quite glabrous, radical leaves persistent 

 linear-lanceolate finely acuminate narrowed into a short petiole quite entire or 

 obscurely toothed, flowering stem sparingly dichotomously branched, branches 

 slender erect, heads numerous panicled ^ in. diam., peduncles slendar, outer 

 invol. bracts very small, inner linear subacute, achenes slender glabrous narrowed 

 upwards ribbed about equalling the brown rigid pappus. Hieracium silhetense, 

 'DC. Prodr. vii. 218; Clarke Comp. Ind. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 411, 257. 

 Prenanthes ? Candolleana, Wall. Cat. 3280, in part. Conyza foliolosa, Wall. Cat. 

 3281, in part. 



KHASIA MTS., alt. 4-6000 ft., common. BIEMA and TENASSERIM, Kurz. 



Perennial; rootstock stout, woody. Leaves 6-12 by \-\\ in., very much narrowed 

 at both ends. Flowering stems often twice as long as the leaves, slender, with small 

 leaves at the forks. Heads yellow, panicled, peduncles with usually a small bract. 

 Achenes ~j in., pale brown ; pappus rather scanty. A very anomalous plant, with the 

 habit, absence of stellate hairs, and the achenes of Crepis, but with the brittle brown 

 pappus of Hieracium. 



13. C. racemifera, Hook. f. ; perennial, glabrous or puberulous above, 

 stern strict simple or branches erect, leaves scattered petioled ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate sinuate-toothed, petiole winged, heads in unilateral racemes, achenes 

 much shorter than the pappus. Crepis, No. G, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 



SiKKm HIMALAYA ; towards the Tibetan frontier, alt. 8-14,000 ft,, J. D. H. 



Stem 6-18 in., very slender, from a small perennial rootstock. Leaves few, 1-2^ 

 in , acute, membranous, lower and middle cauline long-petioled, petiole not auricled at 

 the base, upper sessile. Racemes strict, nearly leafless, with minute bracts at the base 

 of the peduncles, which- are erect, curved at the top. and usually 1-2-bracteolate; 

 heads campanulate, 1-^ in. diam., horizontal or drooping; outer invol. bracts very 

 small, inner 6-10 linear acute glabrous, all green, blackish when dry; ligules yellow. 

 Achenes quite immature, apparently short and not beaked ; pappus not exceeding the 

 involucre, pale brown, brittle. A very remarkable species, whose affinity is doubtful, 

 but I think very near //. silhetensis, though differing in habit and inflorescence. 



SECT. V. Grlomeratae. Heads very numerous and densely crowded, 

 sessile or shortly peduncled on the dilated top of a simple villous club-shaped 

 stem. 



