Pluehea.'] TiXxvni. compositj). (J. D. Hooker.) 273 



nerves on toth surfaces. Heads longer than broad ; invol. contracted at the mouth, 

 outer bracts hoary. 



6. P. ar^uta, Soiss. Diagn, <Ser. ii. 3, p. 5 ; shrubby, glandular-puliesoent, 

 leaves sessile oblanceolate or obovate pungent coarsely serrate or lobulate 

 base auricled or not, beads peduncled solitary or few not or hardly corymbose, 

 invol. bracts subulate-lanceolate rigid. P. fruteacens, Bemth. in Hooh. Ic. PL 

 xii. t. 1157. Oonyza odontophylla, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 217. Laggera arida, 

 Clarke Camp. Ind. 92. 



Scnro, Stocks ; Boogta hills, Vica/ry. PnNJAE, Aitehison. — ^Disteib. Beluchistan. 



A stout branched shrub, succulent when near the sea. Leaves 1-1^ in., very 

 variable in breadth, from ^^ in. Heads \-^ in. diam., quite different fcom those of 

 the preceding species, both as to structure and arrangement. 



7. P. llnearifolla, Clarhe Camp. Ind. 05 ; annual, scaberulous, leaves 

 sessile very long linear rigid coriaceous margins recurved toothed, heads 

 clustered at the ends of the long branches of the corymb, outer invol. bracts 

 rounded. 



Assam, Masters. Mishmi at Jingsha, on the Karam in sandy places, banks of the 

 Lohit below the, Dihong (and ? Khasia Mts.), Griffith. 



Stem, apparently 2-3 ft., simple below, slender or stout, sometimes as thick as the 

 little finger, corymbosely branched above. Leaves 5-8 by \-^ in., sessile by a broad 

 base, midrib very stout, nteves very obscure. Corymb very scabrid, branches naked, 

 stiff,, erecto-patent. Heads ^ in. diam. ; invol. bracts scaberulous. Aohenes not seen ; 

 pappus snow-white. — This is a very curious plant, clearly annual, and differing wholly 

 in habit from the preceding but agreeing in the heads and flowers. A ticket with 

 "Khasia" on it is amongst Griffith's specimens, but no other collector has found it 

 there, and the ticket is probably misplaced. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



p. EupATOBioiDBs, KtiTs FoT. Fl. ii. 575 ; Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 191 ; has not 

 been found hitherto within the British border, it is a viscid Siamese shrub, with 

 petioled linear coarsely toothed leaves and corymbs of small heads with broad ovate- 

 lanceolate invol. bracts. 



29. irANOTKAnXNTrS, Thorns. 



A small rigid woolly herb. Leaves alternate, acutely serrate. Heads small, 

 subsessile, subterminal and axillary, heterogamous, disciform ; outer fl. 1-4, $ , 

 (rarely 0), filiform, 2-3-tootlled, fertile ; disk-fl. g , few, fertile, tube slender, 

 limb eampanulate srib-2-lipped', outer lip 4-lobBd, inner free to the base. 

 Involaere ovoid' ; bracts oo -seriate, lanceolate, d'ry, inner sub-scarious, outer 

 shorter hispid ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-hoses sagittate, auricles mucro- 

 nate or shortly tailed. Style-arms of § filiform. Achenes obovoid, tip rounded, 

 ribs 5-8 slender ; pappus or a minutely 5-toothed crown. 



XT. sericeus, Thmis. in Journ. lAnn. See, ix. 342, t. 3; Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 96. 



The CoNCAN, on dry hills, Dalzell, &c. 



Boot stout, fusiform, woody, annual ? Stems very many from the root, decumbent 

 or suberect and ascending, 6-8 in. long, pale, rigid. Leaves 4-2 in., lanceolate, sessile 

 or contracted into a petiole, rigid, pungent and with irregular pungent teeth, strongly 

 nerved and reticulate. Heads \ in., in dense clusters. — This curious plant bears some 

 resemblance to a Bltimea of the oxyodonta group in habit and foliage.- 



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