Allardia.] ixxvm. composite;. (J. D. Hooter.) 813 



rosy or lilac ; disk-fl. § , fertile, tubular, limb 6-fid. Irtvobtcre hemisplieric ; 

 bracts oo -seriate ; margins scarious, lacerate, often black ; receptacle flat, nabed. 

 Anther-basea truncate or with short connate auricles. Style-arms of 5 broad, 

 ■with truncate penicillate tips. Achenet of ^ 5-angled, glabrous or glandular, of 

 ,. $ empty ; pappus of rigid brown or reddish wavy flattened bristles, sometimes 

 dilated at the tips and with split margins. — Disirib. Species 4 or 6, Himalayan 

 and Central Asiatic. 



1. A. g^Iabrd, Dene, in Jacq. Toy. Bot. 88, t. 06; glabrous or sparsely 

 woolly, leaves cimeiform 3-fid, lobes entire or toothed, heads sessile, outer invol. 

 bracts woolly herbaceous with purple scarious margins, achenes glandular, pappus 

 of the ray-fl. scanty of the disk copious brown, bristles slender not dilated up- 

 wards. Clarke Comp. Ind. 145, excl. tyn. Roylei. A. tridactylites. Hook. f. ^ 

 Thorns. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 144. A. glabra, tridactylites, and Hugelii, Schvltz- 

 Bip. in Pollichia, xx. 442. Waldheimia tridactylites, Kar. if Kir. in Bull, Sac. 

 Imp. Mosc. 1842, 126. 



Eastern and Western Tibet, alt. 15-18,000 ft., from Ladak eastwards to the 

 Sikkim frontier. — Distrib. Alatau Mts. 



Densely tufted, strongly scented. Leaves J-| in. long, lobes linear subacute. 

 Heads 1-1 J in. diam., sessile; ligules broadly elliptic, ^ in. long, purple. Achenes 

 J in. long ; pappus ^ in. long ; bristles unequal, flat, rigid, shining, margins here and 

 there split, tips acute. 



2. A. vestita, Hook.f. §■ Thoms.; Clarke Comp, Ind. 145; densely thickly 

 clothed with buff' or whitish wool, leaves, cuneiform 3-5-£id, lobes short obtuse, 

 heads shortly peduncled, invol. bracts membranous with broad pale brown deeply 

 •(imbriate margins, achenes glandular, pappus hairs with dilated tips yellowish. 



Western Tibet; Takli pass, Zanskar, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Thomson. 



Habit and foliage of A. glabra, but distinguished by the dense woolly clothing, 

 peduncled heads, which are f-1 in. diam., membranous invol. bracts, and the short 

 yellowish pappus, which is not J in. long. 



3. A. nlvea, Hook. f. Sr Thoms. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 148 ; densely clothed 

 with white appressed wool, leaves cuneiform 3-lobed or -toothed, lobes short 

 obtuse, heads small sessUe, invol. bracts woolly with narrow brown scarious 

 margins, achenes glandular, pappus hairs with slightly dilated tips yellovrish. 



Western Tibet, Falconer ; Nubra, Thomson. 



Smaller than any of the other Indian species. Leaves densely crowded, ^J in. 

 long. Heads 5-f in. diam. ; ligules few, 8-10, broadly elliptic, \ in. long. Fd.'ppv^ J 

 in. long, very copious. 



4. A. tomentosa, Dene, in Jacq, Voy, Bot, 87, t. 95; clothed with soft 

 •white wool, leaves oblong or linear-oblong 1-2-pinnatifid, segments various, 

 heads peduncled, invol. bracts woolly, achenes glabrous, pappus bristles flattened 

 with purplish often dilated tips whitish or yellowish. Schultz-Bip. in Pollichia, 

 XX. 441 ; Clarke Comp, Ind. 144. 



Western Tibet and Tibetan passes of the Western Himalat*, from Kashmir to 

 Knmaon, alt 13-16,000 ft.. Falconer, &c. 



Loosely tufted ; branches elongate, ascending, 4-8 in. high, naked upwards. Leaves 

 li-3 in. long, variable in breadth and amount of division. Heads 2-8 in. diam.; 

 ligules very many, linear, 1 in. long, entire. Achenes grooved and wrinkled, pale ; 

 pappus ^-\ in. long. 



5. A. Stoliczkal, Clarke Comp. Ind. 145; glabrous, leaves 2-piniiati8ect, 

 segments narrow, heads peduncled, invcd, bracts glabrous with black scarious 

 margins, pappus hairs connate below yellowish. 



