800 LXXTiii. coMPOSiTiB. (J. D. Hooker.) [PttZican*. 



soabrid hairs. Aohenes short, terete, pericarp crustaceous. — A very distinct 

 group in respect of both pappus and aohenes. 



8. P. g^laucescens, Jaub. Sr Spach. III. PI. Orient, t. S49; dwarf, 

 shrubby, glabrous or sparsely hairy above, leaves fleshy elongate linear or dilated 

 upwards, margins flat or involute quite entire, heads ^ in. diam. shortly pedumcled, 

 invol. bracts glabrous lanceolate acute rigici, ligules 0, pappus white or yellowish 

 much longer than the short oblong silfiy achenes. Clarke Comp. Ind. 130. 

 Platychaete glaucescens, Boiss. ; Fl. Orient, iii. 209. 



The PmiJAB, Salt Eaitse and Mabsi, Fleming. WuzuRreTAN, Stewart. — ^Dis- 

 TEiB. Beluchistan, Persia. 



A small saline succulent- leaved shrub, with pale woody stem and brandies- Leaves 

 1-2^ in., tips usually recurved. HeaSs sHmng from the copious pale sfctaw-coloiired' 

 pappus. The outer pappus is continuous with the pubescence of the very short 

 achenes, 



9. P. Boissierl, Sodk. f. ; dwarf,, shrubby, villous with long white hairs, 

 leaves fleshy spathulate or elongate-spathulate quite entire or sparsely toothecC 

 flat or complicate, heads ^ in. diam. shortly peduncled, invol. bracts lanceolate 

 acute rigid puberulous, ligules 0, pappus white or yellowish much longer than 

 the short oblong sill^ achenes. Platychsete villosa, Boiss. ; Fl. (hiemt. iii. 

 208. 



Scran, Stocks. 



Habit and heads of P. glaucescens, but softly villous, and the leaves are not more 

 than ^-l in. long. Boissier describes the invol. bracts as very obtuse, but they are 

 ■quite acute in our specimens. 



10. P. Stocksli, Hook. f. ; dwarf, shrubby, pubescent, leaves short 

 spathulate very fleshy quite entire flat or concave above, heads subsessile ^ in. 

 diam., invol. bracts rigid lanceolate puberulous outer obtuse inner acute,, ligules 

 ■0, pappus white much longer than the short oblong sil^ aehenes. 



Scnro, Stocks. 



A much shorter and more robust plant than P. Boissieri or glaucescens, blackish 

 Trhen dry, with leaves j-^ in. long, not reeurved at the tips. 



nOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



p. Sakkiana, Klatt. Compos. ScUagintw. 87. The description of this answers to 

 any of the above described species of PlaiychtBte. 



48. CARPXSSXVnX, Xiiin. 



Erect branched herbs. Learoes altemaite. Heads terminal or acsillary, sessile 

 or peduncled, usually drooping, heterogamoos, disciform^ yellow ; outer fl. J , 

 00 -seriate, fertile, slender, 3-5-toothed ; diak-fl. b , fertile, slender, limb slightly 

 ^iated 6-toothed:. Involucre hemispheric or sub^obose;. bracts in few series, 

 inner broad obtuse dry, outer with herbaceous or foliaceous tips ; receptacle flat, 

 naked. Anther-bases sagittate, tails slender. Style-arms linear, obtuse, connivent 

 till late. Achenes elongate, striate with an (often glandular) beak surmounted 

 by a corona ; pappus 0. — Distrib. Species 4-5, S. European and temperate seaA 

 subtropical Asiatic. 



1. C. cernuum, lAnn. ; pubescent,, leaves shortly peti'oled eUipticr-lanceo- 

 late obtuse sinuate-toothed, heads terminal drooping with broad leaJfy bracts, 

 outer invol. bracts leafy spreading. Clarke Comp. Ind. 130. 



Temperate Himalaya and the Khasia and Nilohebrt Mts. — ^Dibtbie. From the 

 Caucasus to France; Java, Japan. 



