1877.] Knowledge of the Bimnese Flora. 203 



Carthamus, L. 



1. C. TiNCTORTus, L. sp. i^l. 1162 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 409 ; Bot. 

 Eeg. t. 170 ; DC. Prod. VI. G12 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 244. 



Hab. Much cultivated in Prome District. — Fl. March, April. 



There are two forms in cultivation, the one with almost entire leaves and 

 involucral leaves and very slightly and shortly spiny, and the other, coming 

 near G. oocyacantha, armed with long spreading spines. 



Cniciis, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 

 * Corolla limb bell-shaped, 5-cleft to the middle. Flower-heads bisexual, the inner 

 involucral bracts not in any way dilated at the tips, but terminating in 

 spines. 

 Leaves white-tomentose beneath, pinnatifid, spiny ; flower-heads large, hemispherical, 



arachnoid- woolly, C. eriophoriis. 



"^ * As preceding section, but the inner involucral bracts dilated into a terminal 



appendage. 



Slender but stiff; leaves narrow, entire or somewhat sinuate-lobed, shortly spiny, 



usually whitish tomentose beneath ; flower-heads rather small, not leafy -involucred 



at the base, long-peduncled, C. Chinensis. 



1. C. EEIOPHOETJS, Hoffm. Deutsch Fl. 286 ; Roth Tent. Fl. germ. 

 II. 286 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 217, {Oirsium eriopJwrmn, Scop. Flor. Carn. 

 II. 130 ; DC. Prod. VI. 638 ; Koch Syn. Fl. Germ. 743 ; Carduus erio- 



pTiorus, L. sp. pL 1153 ; Jacq. Austr. t. 171 ; Engl. Bot. t. 386J. 



Var. /3. i]srvoLUCRATTJS, Clark. Comp. Ind. 217 (Cirsmm involucratiwt, 

 DC. Prod. VI. 639), leaves above covered with sharp sometimes sj^ine- 

 like bristles ; involucre-bracts glabrescent ; florets purple. 



Hab. Var. (3. Karenee country (0 'Riley) ; Ava, Kakhyen hills east of 

 Bhamo (J. Anderson), — Fl. August, September. 



2. C. Chiis"ensis, Clark. Comp. Ind. 219. {Sinensis'). {Cirsium 

 Cliinense, Card, and Champ, in Hook. Kew. Journ. Bot. I. 323 ; Bth. Fl. 

 Hongk. 168). 



Hab. Ava, hills east of Bhamo. 



Saussurea, DC. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Leaves lyrate with a deltoid or hastate end-lobe, the upper cauline ones often entire 

 or lobed, tomentose beneath ; flower-heads long-peduncled, laxly racemose and 

 panicled, the involucre -bracts nigrescent, often blunt and erose-toothed, S. deltoidea. 



Leaves pinnatifid, also the cauline ones, the end-lobe rather elongate, tomentose be- 

 neath ; flower-heads shortly peduncled or almost sessile, clustered and forming an 

 elongate contracted almost raceme-like panicle, the involucre-bracts greyish villous, 



acute, S' Feguensis. 



1. S. DELTOIDEA, Clark. Comp. Ind. 235 {Aplotaxis deltoidea, DC. 



Prod. VI. 541 J Aplotaxis nivea, DC. Prod. VI. 541.) 



