474 



Plants of the Punjab, 



Heubs, Unbranchbd, with Alternate Exstipulatb Bimplb Leaves. 



Petals unisbd. ' 



Flowers, minute, in heads, ^ all tubular. 



Saussurea Sehultzli, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 866. 

 North Kashmir, 

 U-17,000 ft. 



Hke the last species, but leaves radical linear-oblong, 

 short-pointed, narrowed into a very stout stalk, stem 

 leaves long-pointed, heads many, silkily woolly, bracts 

 long-pointed, pappus white. 



Saussurea Atkinsonl, see Prostrate Herbs, Opposite, Exstipulate, Simple, 



Saussurea Roylei, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 370. 

 Himalaya, 

 11-14,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



small to large, perennial, smoothish or cottony, root 

 stock stout, with old broad leaf stalk sheaths, stem 6-18 

 in., stout, thickened under the head of flowers, leaves 

 radical 3-10 in., stalked, erect, long-lanceolate, long-point- 

 ed, quite entire, or round-toothed and round-gapped, 

 or pinnately divided at the base, stem leaves sessile, few, 

 half stem-clasping, heads 1^-2 in., usually solitary, rarely 

 2-8 felted, bristles of receptacle as long as the achenes, 

 anther tails woolly, aohenes J in., narrow, angled ; for 

 other characters see the last described species. 



large, stem 1-8 ft., stout, leafy, deeply grooved, winged 

 more or less by the prolongation of the leaves or their 

 stalks, leaves 8-6 by 1-8| in., oblong or ovate-lanceolate, 

 short- or long-pointed, abruptly narrowed below the middle, 

 smooth above, cobwebby or cottony beneath, heads ^-f in. 

 diam., or smaller in dense flat-topped clusters, shortly 

 stalked, bracts of receptacles ovate, blunt or sharp-pointed, 

 smooth or silky, achenes 4 in. long, narrow, shining, angled, 

 pappus ^ in. long, pale brown ; for other characters see the 

 last species. 



Saussurea piptathera, very like the last species, but stem not winged, leaf 



CoMPOSiTJG. bases forked. 



F. B. I. iii. 372. 



Himalaya, 



9-12,000 ft. 



Chamba. 



Saussurea 

 CandoUeana, 



COMPOSITJE. 



F. B. I. iii. 872. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-10,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



Saussurea Lappa, 



Saussurea 

 soroeephala, 



CoMPOBITiE. 



F. B. I. iii 877. 

 Lahul . 

 14-18,000 ft. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



very small, densely tufted, densely woolly, rootstock 

 perennial, branching, stem none or very short, leaves ^-1 

 in., lanceolate-ovate with a broad tip, slightly toothed, 

 heads very many, |-1 in., sessile, densely crowded, 

 surrounded by woolly leaves, in the hollow dilated top of 

 the HtemR, if there are any, corolla J-^ in., bracts lanceolate, 

 silky ; aohenes 5-Rngled. 



