Solidago.'] Lxxviii. compositjj. (J. D. Hooker.) 245. 



flattened, tips lanceolate. Achenes subterete or angled, 8-13-ribTDed ; pappus- 

 hairs 1-2-aeriate, slender, scabrid. — Distbib. Species about 80, chiefly N. 

 American, one of them cosmopolitan in the N. temp, regions. 



1. S. Virffa-auroa, lAnn. ; DC, Prodr. v. 338 ; glabrous or pubescent, 

 stems erect stout subsimple 6-24 in., lower leaves petioled ovate or oblong sub- 

 serrate, upper smaller narrower entire, heads 1-4 on short axillary peduncles 

 collected in a long leafy panicle, invol. bracts narrow acute, ray-fl. about 8, 

 achenes glabrous or puberulous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 35. 



Tempeeatb Himalaya ; from Kashmir eastwards, alt. 5-90)00 ft. Khasia Mts,, 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. — Distbib. Europe, Temp. Asia and America, Hongkong. 



Tar. 1. Idocarpa, Benth. Fl. Hongk. 179 ; var. glabriiisauia, Clarke 1. c, glatroiis 

 or nearly so, achenes glabrous. — Kashmir to. Nepal. — Amphiraphis leiooarpa, Benth. 

 in Hook. Land. Journ. Bot. i. 488. 



Vak. 2. jmiescens, Clarke 1. c. ; pubescent, achenes puberulous, at least when, 

 young. S. -puhescens, WaU. Cat. 3226. S. nepalensis, Dow ProaSr. 177. Amphiraphis 

 pubeseens, I)C. Prodr. v. 343. — Nipal to Khasia Mts. 



12. dzckbocz:fkai.a, DC. 



Annuals. Leaves alternate, toothed, lyrate or pinnatifid. Heads very small, 

 panicled, heterogamous, globose or hemispheric, not rayed ; outer fl. oo-seriate, 

 5 , fertile, slender, rigid, 2-3-toothed or cleft ; disk-fl. ^ , fertile, narrow, 4r-6- 

 toothed. Anther-bases truncate. Style-arms of 5 short, flattened, tips lanceo- 

 late. Achenes compressed ; pappus 0, or in 5 of 2 minute bristles. — Distbib. 

 Species 6, Asiatic and African. 



* JRec^tacle much elevated. 



1. D. latifolia, DC. in Wight Cemtrib. 11 ; Prodr. v. 372", annual, erect 

 or spreading, glabrous pubescent or villous, leaves petioled ovate or lanceolate 

 entire pinoatitid or lyrate, terminal lobe broadly ovate coarsely toothed, heads 

 J in. diam. globose, ray-fl. filiform cuived obscurely toothed. Dalz. ^ Gihs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 124 ; Wight Ic. t. 1096 ; Garlce Camp. Ind. 36. D. gra,cilis and 

 sonchifolia, DC. I. c. 371, 3.72. D. nilagirensis, Schultz-Bip. in PI. Hohenack^ 

 n. 1035. Ootula sinapifolia, Roxh. Hort. Seng. 63; Fl. Ind. ui.. 437; Wall. 

 Cat. 3237 excl. D. 0. bicolor, iJoiA Cat. Bot. ii. 116. O. latifolia, Pers. Syn. 

 ii. 464. Grangea latifolia, Lamk. IlL t. 699. Hippia bicolor. Smith in Pees 

 Cyclop, xviii. Ethulia integrifolia, Don Prodr. 182. 



Tropicai, and Subtropical Himalaya; from Simla, alt. 9000 ft. to Sikkim, 

 ascending to 8000 ft. Khasia Mts., Cachar, Bibma and the Malay Peninsula. 

 Western Peninsula; on the Ghats from Bombay southwards..^— Distbib. Tropical 

 and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



A weed 12-24 in. high. Leaves very variable.. Heads on slender divaricating 

 peduncles, yellow or purplish. Corolla of the ? very sltender, sometimes green- and 

 persistent. Achenes ^ in., smooth. 



2. D. cbrysanthemifoUa, DC. in Wight Contrib. \\\Prodr..Y. 372 ; 

 erect, stiff, pubescent or hispid, branches divaricate, leaves oblbng or obovate 

 coarsely serrate or pinnatifid, heads long-peduncled 5-1 in. diam. globose or 

 oblong, ray-fl. short 4-fid. Wight Ic. t. 1095 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 36. D. 

 oblongata, Bth. in Gen. PI. ii. 260. D. tanacetoides, Schtiltz Bip. in. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. ii. 38. D. grangese folia, DC. I e. 372. 



Western Himalaya, Eoyle ; Simla, alt. 6-7000 ft., Edgeworth, Thomson. Nil- 

 GHEKRY Mts., alt, 7000 ft., Wight, &e. — Distbib. Java, Trop. Africa. 



Different in habit from D. latifolia, being very rigid, often hoary, with smaller 

 leaves and larger heads on peduncles often 2 in. long. Heads purple. Corolla of 

 ray-fl. shortly funnel-shaped, deeply 3-5-cleftv 



