398 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) \Grepis 



14. C. glomerata, Dene, in Jacq. Voy. JBot. 99, 1. 107 (Prenanthes), not 

 of Clarke ; pubescent or villous, stem sliort soft simple clavate leafy, leaves obo- 

 vate or linear-oblong entire sinuate-toothed or pinnatifid, heads cylindric, outer 

 invol. bracts or 1-2 filiform, inner 3-G linear- or broadly oblong obtuse, achenes 

 cylindric-oblong obscurely constricted below the shining white reddish or blue- 

 grey rigid pappus. 0. Ilookeriana, Clarke Comp. 2nd. 255. 



WESTERN TIBET, Jacquemont ; Lahul, Captain Hay; Barji-kang (N. of Kumaon), 

 alt. 14,000 ft., Strach. $ Winterb. SIKKIM; common near the Tibetan passes, alt. 

 13-1 7,000 ft,, J. D. H. 



Stem 1-6 in., densely or laxly villous, tapering into a fusiform root a foot long, 

 soft, often l-2 in. diam. at the truncate top. Leaves very variable, 1-5 by -| in., 

 flaccid. Heads 50-100, forming a dense hemispheric mass mixed with filiform bracts 

 which arise from the base of the very short peduncle, few-fld. ; invol. bracts \-^ in., 

 variable in breadth, glabrous or villous, margins membranous; ligules yellow. 

 Achenes in., many-ribbed, shining, brown ; pappus ^ in. long, deciduous, hairs very 

 variable in colovir. This is a very singular plant, the analogue of Saussurca gossypi- 

 phora, which it entirely resembles in habit. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



CREPIS PORRIFOLIA, Don Prodr. 164; Barkhausia porrifolia, DC. Prodr. vii. 157 ; 

 and BARKHAUSIA EOYLEI, DC. I. c., are very doubtful plants (see under Pterothcca 

 Falconeri and Crepis Stoliczkai}. 



109. PHJECASXUUX, Cuss. 



Annual or perennial erect hispid herbs. Radical leaves lyrate. If cads small T 

 yellow, hoinogamous ; fl. all ligulate. Involucre cylindric, calyculate, bracts 

 1-seriate, fruitinp- with the midrib thickened below; receptacle flat, naked. 

 Achenes terete with a broad base, finely striate, narrowed at the tip or beaked ; 

 pappus copious, deciduous, or of the outer achenes scanty. DISTEIB. Species 2 

 or 3, European and Oriental. 



1. P. lampsanoides, Cass. in Diet. 8c. Nat. xxxix. 387 ; annual, hispid 

 or glabrate, leaves rosulate runcinate-pinnatifid, cauline few, base simple or 

 sagittate, flowering stem corymbosely or pauiculately branched, heads ^ in. long-, 

 invol. bracts narrowly lanceolate glabrous fruiting rigid, achenes very slender 

 curved subterete pale smooth rather larger than the very soft white pappus. P. 

 pulchrum, Heichb. Ic. FL Germ. t. 1431. Crepis pulchra, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 160; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 846. 0. youngiformis, Koch in Linncea, xxiii. 

 690. Chondrilla pulchra, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 77. Youngia Kochiana, Ledeb. FL 

 Ross. ii. 837. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA; Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 7-8000 ft., Clarke, 

 "Westwards to the Atlantic. 



Stem 1 or many from the root, 12-18 in. high. Leaves very variable. Headft on 

 slender divaricating peduncles ; fruiting invol. bracts pale, incurved. Achenes in. 

 long. This genus would be better reunited with Crepis as a section. 



110. FTEIIOTHECA, Cass. 



Annual subscapigerous hispid or glabrous herbs. Leaves all radical, toothed 

 or sinuate-pinnatifid. Heads subcorymbose, homogamous, yellow or red, all 

 ligulate. Involucre tubular-canipanulate ; inner bracts 1-2-seriate, equal, nar- 

 row, herbaceous, at length concave with the keel thickened, outer few small ;, 

 receptacle with long hairs or bristles. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles acute or 

 setaceous. Style-arms slender. Achenes slender, all subterete or the outer com- 

 pressed, 8-10-ribbed, narrowed at both ends, glabrous, strongly 3-ribbed or 



