Scorsonera.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITJ:. (J. D. Hooker.) 410 



crown, and have unripe achenes ; they however entirely resemble Caucasian ones of 

 8. purpurea. 



SECT. II. Fterachsenia, Benth. in Gen. Plant, ii. 582. Achenes 2-3- 

 winged. 



3. S> Stewartii, Hook.f.; stemless, scapigerous. leaves linear or slightly 

 dilated beyond the middle woolly or glabrate below, scapes usually shorter than 

 the leaves naked, heads solitary tonientose or glabrate, outer invol. bracts ovate 

 acute inner oblong-lanceolate, achenes linear-oblong with 2 broad or 3 narrower 

 white wings, ribs echinate. 



The PUNJAB ; Peshawur, Stewart ; low hills at Hurroo, Aitchison. 



Annual. Leaves 3-8 by ~-^ iu., grassy, 3-nerved, subacute. Scape stout, erect 

 or decumbent, ribbed. Heads |-1 in. long ; invol. bracts variable in length and 

 breadth, shorter than the yellow ligules. Achenes linear or linear-oblong, 3- in. long, 

 wings entire or toothed equalling or broader than the very narrow strongly ribbed 

 dark body of the achenes ; ribs with an irregular row of horizontal spinules ; pappus 

 reddish, as long as the achenes. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



S. BHPLEUROIDES, Don Prodr. 162 ; " root fusiform, stem simple erect 1-fld. nearly 

 1 foot high terete glabrous, leaves linear-lanceolate acute flat glabrous villous at the 

 base shorter than the stem, invol. bracts longer than the yellow striate ligules, pappus 

 imequal scabrid." Alps of Nipal, Wallich. I have no idea what this can be. 



121. EPILASIA, Bunge. 



Annual low herbs. Leaves chiefly radical, quite entire. Peduncles usually 

 thickened and hollow. Heads terminal, honiogamous ; fl. all ligulate. Invo- 

 lucre campanulate or ovoid ; bracts few, inner sub-2-seriate, outer 3-6, leafy erect 

 or spreading ; receptacle flat, naked. Achenes short, cylindric or subturbinate, 

 10-20-ribbed, glabrous, base not contracted, areole hollowed, tip truncate and 

 raised and dome-shaped within the pappus ; pappus dark brown, most densely 

 many-seriate, silky, hairs feathery a few longer the others with simple (not 

 feathery) tips. DISTRIB. Species 5, Western and Central Asia. 



IS. ammophila, Bge. in Reliq. Lehin. 202; annual, glabrous, leaves 

 very narrowly linear or dilated about the middle 3-nerved quite entire or 

 obscurely serrulate, outer invol. bracts leafy spreading often much longer than 

 the ligules inner ovate-lanceolate obtuse, achenes closely ribbed. E. Bungei, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 279. 



The PUNJAB ; Peshawur, Vlcary, Stewart. Salt Range, Fleming ; low hills at 

 Eawxil Pindee, Aitchison. DJSTKIB. Beluchistan, Affghanistan, Turkistan. 



Stemless or with a rather stout leafy stem 6 in. high. Leaves 1-4 by -^ in., tip 

 obtuse cartilaginous. Scapes 1 or more, 2-6 in., stout, naked. Heads solitary ^-\ 

 in., campaaulate ; outer invol. bracts very variable in length and breadth, sometimes 

 2 in. long and slender, at others short and broad, 3-nerved with cartilaginous tips ; 

 ligules blueish. Achenes 4 in. long, sometimes nearly as broad and then connate in 

 pairs, about 20-ribbed, ribs obscurely crenulate. Bunge describes the achene as 

 retrorsely scabrid, which is hardly the case iu the Indian specimens. 



ORBEK LXXVIII.* STYLXDIEJK. (By 0. B. Clarke.) 



Herbs, rarely undershrubs. Leaves alternate or falsely whorled, entire. 

 Flow&rs in racemose cymes, panicles or corymbs ; hermaphrodite or unisexual. 

 Calyx adnate to the ovary ; limb 2-lipped, upper lip 3-, lower 2-lobed. Corolla 



* The numbering of the five preceding Orders, pp. 1, 17,210, 215, 219, should be 

 respectively 73, 74, 75, 76, 77. 



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