322 Lxxviii. compositj:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Artemma. 



celled pale sMning, invol. bracts broadly oblong witli very broad scarious 

 margins and a very narrow green disk. Clarke Comp. Ind. 157 ; Ledeb. Fl. Rosa, 

 ii. 683. 



Western Tibet, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Thomson; liahul, Jaesohke. — Distbib. Aff- 

 ghanistan, W. Asia, S. and Mid Russia. 



A green erect h^rb 1-2 ft. high ; stems grooved and ribbed. Leaves 1-1 J in., quite 

 entire in Indian specimens. Heads sometimes clustered in threes, horizontal or nod- 

 ding ; flowers rather numerous. Achenes, ripe not seen in Indian specimens. — Hiough 

 described as an annual, the roots seem to be pereiinial. The Affghan specimens have 

 rather smaller heads, and are probably Boissier's A. owmptstris, var. inodora. 



3. A. sieLMca,, Pall. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 97 ; herbaceous, perennial, pubescent, 

 radical leaves 3-fid or 0, lobes acute, cauline sessile linear or linear-lanceolate 

 rarely lobed, heads subglobose ^ in. diam. in very slender lax short racemes -with 

 capillary pedicels, invol. bracts glabrous oblong obtuse scarious -with a narrow 

 green disk. Ledeb. Fl. Boss. ii. 663. A. dubia, Wall. ? Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. 

 8c T. 



Western Him4xata.; Kunawru and Jamu, alt. 7-9000 ft., TOomsore.— Distbib. 

 Siberia, Mongolia. 



Very similar to A. Dracunculus, and distinguished by the pubescence only. 



4 A. desertorum, Spreng. Syst. iii. 490; herbaceous, perennial, glabrous, 

 leaves 1-2 in. sessile entire and linear or 2-3-partite or pinnatifid with linear 

 acute segments, heads usually pedicelled subglobose ^ in. diam. sessile or 

 peduncled, solitary and distant or in clusters of 2-3 short forming panicled 

 racemes, invol. bracts orbicular or oblong, outer herbaceous or with narrow 

 scarious margins. DC. Prodr. vi. 97; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 664; Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 158. A. fostida, Jacquem. in DC. Prodr. vi. 98. A. Jacquemontiana, 

 Besser; DC. I.e. 97. 



Western Tibet and Kunawhr, alt. 10-16,000 ft.. Falconer, Jacguemont, Thomson, 

 DiSTRiB. Eastern Turkestan, alt. 17^18,000 ft. {Henderson); Siberia. 



A suberect foetid herb ; branches grooved and ribbed. Leaves green, acute. Hsads 

 dark green ; outer invol. bracts often -wholly herbaceous ; flowers rather numerous. 

 Achenes as in A. salsoloides. — In A. Jacquemontiana the invol. bracts are more scarious, 

 and present a transition to A. Dracunculus, of which this is probably a variety ; it is 

 referred by Maximoviez (Dec. xi. 526) to pwniftora, Eoxb., but I think erroneously. 



5. iV. parviflora, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61; Fl. Ind. vi. 420; perennial, 

 herbaceous, vUlous, hoary or glabrous, stems erect or ascending stout panicu- 

 lately branched grooved, leaves sessile linear-cuneate, tip entire or acutely 2-8- 

 iid or flabellately lobulate rarely pinnatifid, upper Unear entire acute, heads 

 _L_i. in. diam. globose secund in elongate strict panicled racemes, invol. bracts 

 broadly oblong vnth broad scarious edges. Don Prodr. 181 ; DC. in Wight 

 Cmtrib. 20; Prodr. vi. 100; Dalz. 8r Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 314; Wall. Cat. 3298; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 159. A. glabrata, DC. in Wight Cohtrib. 20 ; I¥odr, vi. 100 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1111. A. cuneifolia, DC. I. o. 126. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Kashmir, alt. 7-9000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 7-11,000 ft. 

 Khasia Mts., Ava, and Martaban, alt. 5-7000 ft. Behar ; on Parusnath, alt. 4000 

 ft. Western Ghats; from the Concan southwards to the Pulney Mts. (absent in 

 Ceylon). 



A shrubby inodorous herb 1-3 ft. high, glabrous or laxly villous. Leaves very 

 variable, 1-2 in. long, the lowest sometimes nearly 1 in. diam., with palmately spread- 

 ing 3-5-fid lobes, the upper middle sometimes 1-2-pinnatifld with narrow lobes, but 

 usually the lower and middle cauline are simply narrowly cuneate and acutely 3-5-fld 

 at the broad end ; all have generally a pair of stipule-like narrow lobes at the base. 

 Heads almost always pedicelled, greenish ; flowers 6-10. Achenes about ^ in. long, 

 ellipsoid, smooth, brown. — The stems are so robust as to suggest that this is often 



