170 ALABASTRA DIVERSA. 
eequilata; phylla omnia plane in longitudinem pluristriata. Flos- 
culi 3 
m. 
Apparently allied to O. chilensis Hook. & Arn., though the 
involucral scales show a decided approach to the § Cheirolophus. The 
habit is that of C. chilensis, but the leaves are more soattered and their 
lobes slenderer; the ca apitula also are smaller and relatively longer. 
The narrow involucral leaves serve to distinguish it at once from 
C. chilensis he Museum specimen having but one mature capit- 
ulum, and that only in flower, it has boris: thought better not to 
remove a floret, as the head might thereby be injured at the 
maneeneent cost of getting a sight of the immature achene and 
pappu 
CaRBENIA BENEDICTA Adans. (micas benedictus L.). A small but, 
to botaniste, interesting result of the “ forward policy " in India is 
e 
p ‘ 
men collected by Surg.-Lieut. Harriss, I.M.S., in the Dir Valley 
oe Relief senna, 1895, No. 16281), is in the British 
and, ng ste so isolated a spot, is not at all likely to 
"ip been a cultivated on 
Crepis (§ Aaa Gillii, sp.nov. Subacaulis, caule crasso 
sparsim folioso mox Heine araneoso, foliis oblongis sinuato- lobatis 
vel subruncinatis obtusis plant ipse subequilongis summis sc. tis 
vio 
attenuatis eminenter 10-costatis pappo stramineo coron 
Ha Ra-ma-la Mountain ; Capt. Gill, Ae 1877 
(Herb. Brit. Mus.). Also W. China; Pratt, Nos. 456, 482, 875 
(Herb. K 
Tota hae 6-0 cm. alt. et totidem diam. Caulis usque ad 
1:0 cm. diam., ejus sauaiys —_ floribus Bape ampliati. Folia 
ciliolata, eminenter 5 caer “folia summa 2-0-2:5 cm. long., 
deorsum ampliata ibique oe tegen puberula. Peduneuli 1°0- 
15 ¢ ong., usque ad 0:15-0:23 cm. complanati, i vel 
paberah Involueri glabri sl puberuli 1-5 em. long 0-3 cm. 
diam. phylla exteriora filiformia, basi _—- alia, oe 0-1: 2 cm. 
long.; phylla interiora 2 oblonga 0:3 em. lat., 2 ovato-oblonga 
0°5 cm. long. semi- -amplectentia, omnia weeghan hyalina, sursum 
atrata. Corolle tubus 1-0-1°3 em. long.; ligule anguste oblong®, 
lute, deorsum in sicco atrate. Anthere 0-5 em. long., basi 
setaceo-appendiculate, in sicco atrate. Stylus ad 0-17 cm. supra 
antheras exsertus, una cum ramis crebre papillosus. Achenia 
0-2 cm. long., 0°15 em. diam., basi leviter attenuata, sursum in 
collum distinctum 0-05 em. long. attenuata. 
Closely allied to C. glomerata Decaisne, from which it differs by 
reason of its less araneose stem, the greatly flattened peduncles, the 
longer and relatively narrower a longer inner involucral 
