Artenmsia.] lxxyiii. compositje. (J. D. Hooker.) 325 



15,000 ft., Strach. # Wint.; Potopa, alt. 11,500-12,000 ft., Hei/de. SiitKiM; on the 

 Tibet frontier, alt. 15,000 ft., J. D. if.— Di^ieib. N. Asia, N. America. 



A subsueculent herb, of which the specimens are not very good. Stem 6-12 in., 

 Tery stout and soft. Leaves radical, numerous, green, petioled, cauline subsessile, 

 1-2 in., linear-oblong in outline. Heads much larger than tiiose in, any of the fore- 

 going species. — Ledebour describes the root, which I have not seen, as creeping 

 jointed and scaly, the brown scarious margins of the invol. bracts are peculiar. 



** Perennials with usucdly amall heads in often spreading panicled spikes or 

 racemes. 



13. A. amy^dalina, Dene, in Jaeq. Voy. Bot. 92, t. 100; stem stout 

 ■erect leafy, leaves subsessile lanceolate acuminate serrate teeth incurved gland- 

 tipped hoary teneath, heads jg in. ovoid few-fld. subsecund in dense short 

 axillary racemes, invol. bracts oblong obtuse scarious glabrous, outer with a 

 green disk. 



BliSHMiB ; Pir Punjal, Jacgiiemont, Stewart. 



Stem deeply grooved and many-ribbed, glabrous. Leaves quite simple, 4-6 by 

 J-l J in., rather membranous, glabrous above ; nerves many and midrib slender ; 

 base narrowed into a very short petiole with minute setaceous auricles. — I have seen 

 but one specimen of this very remarkable species, the leaves are like those of a wiUow. 

 It is perhaps nearest A. vulgaris ; the only other species at all like it is A. anomala, 

 Hance, of China, which has shorter, broader leaves. 



14. A. vulgaris, Linn. ; JBoiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 371 ; tall, shrubby below, 

 hoary pubescent or tomentose, stems leaiy paniculatply branched, leaves large 

 ovate lobed laciniate or 1-2-pinnatipartite white-tomentose beneath rarely 

 hoary or green on both surfaces, lobes acute irregularly serrate or lobulate lower 

 petioled upper sessile or petioled with stipule-like basal lobes, uppermost linear- 

 lanceolate entire, heads ^-^ in. long ovoid or subglobose clustered or seriate 

 subsecund in short or long suberect or horizontal panicled racemes, invol. bracts 

 woolly or glabrate, outer small herbaceous, inner almost wholly scarious, corollas 

 glabrous. DC. Prodr. v. 112 ; Clarke Comp.Ind. 161 ; Mo.rb. Fl. Ind. ih. 420 ; 

 Kwz in Joum. As. Sac. 1877, ii. 178. A. indica, WUld. ; DC. I. c. 114; Moxb. 

 I. c. 419 ; Dalz. Sr Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 129 ; Wight Ic. t. 1112 ; Wcdl. Cat. 3293. 

 A. dubia, Wall. Cat. 3807; DC. I.e. 110. A. myriantha, WaU. Cat. 3297; 

 DC. I.e. 112. A. paniculata, Roxh. I.e. 418. A. leptostachya, DC. I.e. 113. 

 A. grata. Wall. Cat. 3294 in part ; DC. I. c. 114. A. lavandulaefolia, DC. I. e, 

 110. A. affinis, Hassk. Hort. Bogor. 102. A. parviflora, Wight Cat. 1460, not 

 of Moxh. ; Rheede Hort. Med. x. t. 45. 



Throughout the mountainous districts of India, at elevation of 5-12,000 ft., in 

 the Western Himalaya ; and 5-8000 ft. in Sikkim, the Kbasia, Ava, and Martaban 

 Mts. Mt. Aboo, in Maewae. The Westeen Ghats, from the Concan, southwards to 

 Cetion. — DisTEiB. Temperate Europe and Asia, Siam, Java. 



A tall aromatic shrub-like herb, often forming thickets 6-8 ft. high in Sikkim, 

 with branches as thick as the thumb, and leaves 7 in. long, and broad ; the leaves 

 normally vary from very lobulate, like those of the garden chrysanthemum, to 

 pinnatifidly 2-3-sect, and from green or hoary on both surfaces to thickly clothed 

 with white or buff, tomentose beneath or on both surfaces ; the heads, too, vary 

 greatly in number, disposition, size and form, from globose to ovoid, and from sessile 

 to pedicelled. — I have failed to separate the following forms into varieties recognisable 

 by description or by locality. A. indica was originally distinguished by its leaves 

 •ashy beneath ; A. d/abia by the more entire leaves ; A. myriantha by its floribund 

 hranches ; A. paniculata (a Calcutta garden plant) has no djstinetive characters ; A. 

 leptostachya should have leafless racemes, as is often the case with other forms ; A. 

 grata of Wallieh consists of a broad leaved state of vulgaris from the Western 

 Peninsula, and of the same with A. Eoxbwghiana from the Calcutta Garden. The 



