Artemisia.] lxxviii. composite!. (J. D. Hooker.) 329 



25. A. minor, Jacquem. in DC. Pi-odr. vi. 124; dwarf, silHly tomentose, 

 densely tufted, stems very many short stout ascending from a stout woody root- 

 stock sheathed with scarious dry petiole-bases helow and clothed with imbricat- 

 ing leaves above, a few elongating simple and floweiing, leaves small densely 

 imbricate and sessile on the nowerless stems flabeUately 2-pinnatifid sessile or 

 petioled on the flowering stem uppermost pinnatifid, heads j in. diam. bracteate 

 hemispheric subsessUe subsecund solitary or spicate, invol. bracts tomentose with 

 broad coloured scarious margins, receptaoular hairs long. A, tibetica, Hei-h. 

 Ind. Or. H.f. if- T. A. Sieversiana, var. tibetica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 165. 



Western Tibet, alt. 15-18,000 ft,, Jaequemont, Thomson: Eastern Tibbt, N. of 

 Sikkim, alt. 18,000 ft., J. D. H. 



A strongly scented, densely tufted, dwarf species of the loftiest and driest regions, 

 with a woody root of protably great age giving off many tufts of short leafy branches, 

 ■of which few elongate and flower. Leaves ^-^ in., grey ; petiole when present, rather 

 stout. Heads rarely more than 6, subtended by a leaf or bract that is linear or ovate, 

 ■entire or lobed, or sometimes reduced to one of the involueral series ; corollas with 

 pubescent lobes ; anthers acuminate. 



** Amrncda or biennials, 



26. A,. Sieversiana, Willd.; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. ii. 699; annual or 

 "biennial, hoary-pubescent, stem erect angled and ribbed simple or paniculately 

 Tjranched above, leaves mostly petioled broadly ovate 2-pinnatisect segments 

 -obtuse and obscurely lobed hoary on both surfaces, heads \ to nearly J in. diam. 

 broadly hemispheric pediceUed secund nodding distant in lax long racemes 

 terminating the branches, outer invol. bracts green hoary, inner broadly scarious, 

 receptaoular hairs long straight. Clarke Comp. Ind. 165; excl. var. (3; DC. 

 Prodr. vi. 126. 



Western Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 8-10,000 ft. Western Tibet, 

 alt. 12-14,000 ft.. Falconer, &c.— ;-Distrib. From China, westward to S. Bussia. 



Very similar in many respects to A. Absinthmm, but annual (in the Indian speci- 

 mens) with much larger heads, distant on the long lax racemes, and the anthers are 

 aristate. — Ledebour describes the receptacle as sometimes nearly glabrous, in which 

 case the A. pallida could be hardly distinguished from it. 



27. A. macrocephala, Jacqttem. ; DC. Prodr. vi. 125 ; annual, dwarf, 

 hoary-tomentose, branches many ascending from the root simple or sparingly 

 dividied, leaves ovate 2-pinnatisect, segments linear obtuse or subacute hoary on 

 both surfaces, lower stoutly petioled, heads |-J in. diam. broadly hemispheric 

 shortly pediceUed secund nodding distantly racemed at the end of the branches, 

 outer invol. bracts green linear tomentose, inner oblong broadly scarious, recep- 

 tacular hairs long straight. A. Griffithiana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 376. 



KtTNAWTJE and Western Tibet; alt. 12-16,000 ft., Jacguemont, Thomson. 

 Manasarowar Lake, alt. 15,500 ft., Strach. ^ Wmterb.- — Distbib. Affghanistan, 

 Central Asia. 



Stem rather stout for the size of the plant, 4-8 in. long, often decumbent at the 

 base ; branches spreading in a circle from the root, simple, rarely suberect and again 

 branched. Leaves about ^ in. long, mostly sessile. Heads yeUow ; invol. bracts 

 jiumerous ; corollas often with hairy lobes ; anthers acuminate. 



DOUETPtTL SPECIES. 



A. (Abrotanum) eotleana, DO. Prodr. vi. 115; "herbaceous, strict, wholly 

 •glabrous, cauline leaves pinnatipartite from the bafip, pinnae pairs 7 or 9, lobes broadly 

 Unear acute entire, branches of the panicle erect, heads racemed secund subglobose 

 fiubcernuous, invol. bracts ovate subrotund margins scarious. — A most distinct species, 

 leaf-lobes 10 by 1 j^ lines." — N.W. India, Boi/le. 1 cannot identify this. 



A. (Abrotanum) pallens. Wall. Cat. 3302 ; a very obscure plant, procured from 

 4Jie Madras missionaries by Wallich, and called A. absmthii, by Heyne ; it resembles 



