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original reference from Tournefort, whose plant he had seen in 
Herb. Banks. He distinguishes the varie ety from the species by 
the presence of the glands on the serratures of the former, a 
character which he has previously noted as being very variable. 
Bot. Reg. 834 (1818) represents, under J. glandulosa, what is pro- 
bably the same species, though the ray-fiorets are depicted with 
curiously laciniate tips. The writer quotes Marschall von Bieber- 
stein, who found the plant on Mount Caucasus, growing along 
with I. grandiflora, from which, he observes, ‘it differs only by 
having the glands of the leaves produced on a completely entire 
rae instead of ey the points of the teeth of a serrated border 
it seems to be a mere variety.’’ Tournefort’s original specimen 
bic é. » Willde enow’s E grandiflora), however, has leaves with an 
almost entire margin, on which the small black glands occur at 
os gh intervals. 
The suggestion therefore is Bet Willdenow’s two species are 
vasielied, or perhaps merely forms, of the same plant, and are thus 
ee by the earlier aioe I, orientalis Lamarck. 
a Wallich, enon and list (no. 2961, oda Blink- 
worth 5, esttiied by . De Candolle (Prodr. . p. 470) is a 
We Lieven Rare We have an ocipiiial specimen from 
Kumaon, collected by Robert Blinkworth. Other specimens from 
Kumaon (Strachey & Winterbottom, no. 5), Garhwal (Schlagint- 
weit, Duthie), Kashmir, &c., agree with the page ht barbata is not 
included in the Flora of British India, where, however, we find 
I. grandiflora (vii. p. 294) cited as Western Danaea, but the 
Specimens are noted as differing in the involucre mera the Caucasian 
species. As one of the chief distinctions between the species lies 
in the shape ‘a indumentum of the in volun leaves (larger, 
narrower, and more hairy, with darker reddish brown hairs 
EE fap sesintte it is suggested that the J. grandislora of Flor. Brit. 
Ind. t L. grandiflora Willd., but represents J. barbata Wall. 
This ew i supported by the fact that Mr. O. B. Clarke Composite 
Indica, p. 122) says, under /. barbata, that it has been distributed 
as I. grandiflora, and herbarium specimens bear this out. Mr. 
Clarke, however, includes I. grandiflora as a native of high altitudes 
on the North-west Himalayas, basing his statement on a specimen 
collected at 14,000 to 17,000 ft. by Dr. Stoliczka. His description 
of the involucral scales as “ saepusiiidiai oblonga” does not quite 
suggest those uf J. grandiflora, and Dr. Stoliezka’s plant may per- 
haps not represent this species, which on this view has only an 
“ oriental”’ distribution (Caucasus, &c.). 
The following is the synonymy of the _ plants :— 
I. ontentauis Lam. Encye. iii. p. 255 (178 
Aster Orientalis, Conyze@ folio, flore Pert maximo Tourn. Coroll, 
Instit. p. 36 (1708). 
ra Paice Willd. Sp. Pl. iii. p. 2096 (1800); Boiss. Fl. 
Orient. iii, p. 186; ?C. B. Clarke, Composite Indice, 
p- 138, ; Vee 
I. glandulosa Willd. op. cit. p. 2097 ; Ait. Hort, Kew. ed. ii, v. . 
