Iwula.] Lrsviii. oompositji. (J. D. Hooker.) 293 



Alpine region of the Sikkim Himalaya, J. D. H. 



I have only a fragment of this remarkable species, the smooth soft stem is as 

 thick as a goose-quill, smooth and shining, wings narrow memiiranouSi Leaves, upper 

 alone seen, 3-4 by 1 in. long. Imiol. buraots herbaceous, f in. long, spreading in fmit; 

 receptacle hemispheric ; ligules ^ in.,, deeply 3-fld. Achenes J in. long, ; pappus ^ in . 



5. I. polygronata, DC. Prodr. vi. 466 ; stem stout winged and leaves 

 beneath and corymb very densely woolly, leaves sessile oblong or oblong-lan- 

 ceolate obtuse denticulate, heads ^ in. diam. in small corymbs immersed in thick 

 ■wool, invol. bracts' thick, outer oWong, inner narrow pungent, ray-fl. short 

 tubuiar. ClarMe Omip. Ind. 119. Obnyza polygonata, Wdl. Gat. 3010. 



Feou and Bibma, on dry hills, WalUch, Maclelland, Kwrz. 



Stems 1-2 ft., simple or branched above, very robust, leafy. Leaves Z-i by |-1 J 

 in., very coriaceous, glabrous or rough above, sessile but not auricled at the base. 

 Heads hemispheric; invol. bracts \ in., outer obtuse rigidi inner q-uite pungent. 

 Achenes i in., silky ; pappus-hairs ^ in., white, rather flattened. 



6. I. nervosa, WaM.. Cat. 2960 ; BC. Prodr. v. 471 ; peKenniail, pubes- 

 cent hirsute or villous and glandular, stem simple or biranehedi erect flexuous, 

 leaves sessile or subsessile elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate acute at both ends 

 subdentate scaberulous or acabrid above, nerves subparallel with the margin, 

 heads |— 1 in. solitary or corymbose pedhincled, ligules white, invol. bracts Uneaiv 

 lanceolate acute hirsute erect or recuived, outermost foliaceous or not, achenes 

 siUry. Clarke Qimpf. Ind. exct. syrt. Roxh. I. asperrima and nitida, Edgew. in 

 Jowrn. lAnn. 8oc. xx. 68, 69. I. verrucosa, Klatt in Siti/uittgh. Munch. Akad. 

 1876, 86. 



Temperate HimaUlYa; alt. 4-7000 ft., from Garwhal to Bhotan. Khasia Mts. ? 

 alt. 3-5000 ft., Griffith, See. 



Stem 1-3 ft., strict or flexuous. Leaves 2-4 by f-l'J in., usually membranous, 

 teeth remote. Heads very variable' in siae, and especially in the invol. bracts, which 

 are green and either appressed or squarrosej the outermost are narrow recurved and 

 usually leafy ; ligufes rather broad, shorter than the brea^dth of the head. Achenes 

 JL jn. ; pappus dirty-white. 



Tab. purpurascens ; invol. bracts narrow linear-lanceolate finely acuminate 

 straight purple glabrescenf. — Khasia Mts., Lohb, Clarke. The bracts differ much from 

 the Khasian specimens gathered by Griffith, or from the Himalayan, but they are 

 always very variable in this species and' its allies. 



7. X. Simonsii, Clarke Camp. Ind.. 121; hirsute with yellow glandular 

 hairs, leaves subsessUe oblong acute base rounded denticulate rigid hirsute on 

 both surfaces, heads long-peduncled, invol. bracts lanceolate outer shorter 

 hirsute, ligules long white, achenes narrowly oblong silky, pappus white., 



Assam (Bhotan ?)» Sr. Simons. Bhotan, Nuttall. 



I have seen no speciimens. of this, species, which its author describes as being very 

 near /. nervosa, but differing im the larger heads and leaves rounded at, the base, 



8. X. obtusifolia, Km-ner Nov. Sp. PI. Jaeschke, 18 ; stems many from a 

 woody stock short erect rigid and leases ibaneath scabrid or haiiy, leaves sessile 



- oblong or ovate-oblong obtusei or acute base rounded, heads 1 or few ^1^ in. 

 ^iam., inner invoili. bracts linear or lioear-lamceolate acute rigid pubescMit outer- 

 most leafy, achenes slender silky. I. oculus Christi, var. and I. Thomsoni, 

 Clarke Compi^ Ind. 120. 



Westebn Tibet and KranAON ; alt. 10i-140fli0 ft., Thomson, Jaeschke. — ^Disteib. 

 Kashgar. 



Stems 6-12 in., often rigidly flesuous, leafy to the top; Leaves 1^2 im, rigid, 

 often scaberulous, above, obsciirely denticulate, nerves reticulated beneath. Heads 

 very variable in size, hemispheric, outer leafy ; invol. bracts 1-2, small or lajrge, inner 



