402 LXII. COMPOSLT2E. [Pluchea 



North Africa. L. coriaceous, sessile, linear-lanceolate or oblanceolate, cuspidate, sec. n. 

 oblique, conspicuous, invol. bracts snort, rounded, obtuse, fl. pink. 5. P. arguta, Boiss. 

 Baluchistan, Sind, Punjab. Glandular-pubescent, 1. succulent, when growing on the 

 coast, thin inland, sessile, 1-2 in. long, varying much in breadth from oblanceolate or 

 nearly obovate to linear, when broad deeply cut. Heads pedunculate, solitary or few 

 together, invol. bracts rigid, subulate-lanceolate. 



Helichrysum buddleioides, DC. Hills on the "West side of the Peninsula from Kanara 

 southwards. A shrub attaining 6 ft., often gregarious, underside of 1. and corymbs 

 densely cottony. L. sessile, lanceolate, quite entire, 4-6 in. long, 3-9 longitudinal 

 nerves. Heads yellow, in globose clusters, forming terminal corymbs, inner invol. 

 bracts broad, scarious, outer hairy. Marginal fl. ? , filiform, disk fl. § tubular. 



Artemisia vulgaris, Linn. Subhimalayan tract and Himalaya ascending to 12,000 ft., 

 often gregarious in clearances. Khasi hills. Hills of the Western Peninsula. Siam. 

 Java. Temperate Europe and Asia. A shrub, very aromatic, pubescent or tomentose, 

 1. ovate, lobed, or pinnatipartite, white piibescent or tomentose beneath, lobes acute 

 irregularly serrate, uppermost linear-lanceolate entire. Heads J-J in. long, in more 

 or less one-sided panicled racemes, invol. bracts more or less woolly, the inner scarious, 

 the outer smaller herbaceous. Kay fl. $ slender, 2-3-toothed, disk fl. tubular, all fertile. 

 Pappus 0. 



6. SENECIO, Linn. ; M. Brit. Lid. iii. 338. 



Mostly herbaceous, a few small trees, shrubs and woody climbers, 1. alter- 

 nate, in the herbaceous species often radical. Heads yellow, rarely white, 

 invol. bracts one-seriate or with an outer row of small bracts. Ray fi. ? 

 ligulate, sometimes wanting, disk fl. bisexual, tubular, anther-base obtuse or 

 minutely tailed. Species 1,000-1,200 chiefly in temperate climates and 

 mountains of the tropics. 



A. M. few, 12 or less in one head, all tubular. 



1. S. araneosus, DC— Syn. S. WaJkeri, Am. ; Wight Ic. t. 1131. Sikkim 5-8,000 ft. 

 Assam, Khasi hills. Nilgiris. Ceylon. Java. A woody climber, 1. ovate from a 

 cordate base, dentate or sinuate, sometimes slightly lobed, often grey cottony 

 beneath, blade 4-7, pet. 1-3 in. long, basal nerves 5-7. PI. heads bracteolate, in open 

 terminal and axillary bracteate corymbs, invol. bracts 8. 2. S. corymbosus, "Wall. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1130. Nilgiris, Ceylon. Similar, 1. coriaceous smaller almost orbicular, 

 tawny tomentose beneath. 



B. Fl. few (6-10) in one head, ligulate fl. 2-5. 



3. S. triligulatus, Ham. Nepal. Sikkim, 6-10,000 ft. Mishmi and Naga hills. 

 Manipur. Dry hill forest east of Bhamo (Montague Hill). Yunnan (Henry). A 

 woody climber, glabrous, except corymbs which are often puberulous, 1. elliptic- or 

 oblong-lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, blade 4-5, pet. J in. long. • PI. white (Hill), 

 yellow (Henry), invol. bracts 5-8, J in. long. PI. 2-3 ligulate and 3 tubular in each 

 involucre, ligules very short 2-nerved, lobes of tubular fl. revolute. Pappus dirty white. 

 Prorn the same locality, 4,500 ft., Mont. Hill (141) has sent specimens of a small tree, very 

 similar, but peduncles and ramifications of corymbs capillary, fl. smaller, invol. bracts 

 J in. long, pappus pure white. 4. S. vagans, Wall. Nepal, has capillary peduncles but 

 larger fl. heads, ligulate fl. conspicuous. 



5. S. rufinervis, DC. Kunawar. Simla. Garhwal and Kumaon, 6-8,000 ft. L. ovate 

 to ovate-lanceolate, sharply toothed, lower surface white-tomentose, except the red- 

 brown nerves. Heads 6-10-fld., invol. bracts 5-8, much shorter than fl. 



C. M. numerous. Climbers. 



6. S. scandens, Don. — Syn. S. Wightiamis, DC. ; Wight Ic. t. 1136 ; 8. intermedins, 

 Wight Ic. 1. 1135. Kumaon. Sikkim, 6-10,000 ft. Mishmi and Khasi hills. Manipur 

 Hills of Upper Burma. Yunnan. Tonkin. Nilgiris. Palnis. Ceylon. Climbing, 

 branches zig-zag, grooved or ribbed, nearly glabrous, 1. lanceolate or hastate, blade 

 3-4, pet. J-l in. long, often with foliaceous lobes and auricles at base. Heads yellow, 

 on the divaricate branches of lax terminal corymbs, invol. bracts 10-15. 7. S. candicans, 

 DC. ; Wight Ic. t. 1134. Nilgiris. Climbing, branches angular. Similar to 6, but 

 branches and 1. beneath densely white-tomentose, i^tiole always auricled. 8. 

 S. Buimalia, Ham. Nepal. Sikkim 5-6,000 ft., branches, underside of 1. and inflor- 



