Senecio.] lxxviii. compositje. (J. D. Hooker.) ■ 339 



petiole not aurieled. Corymb with filiform bracts ; heads erect or drooping. Involucre 

 cylindric. Aehemes ribbed, i in. ; pappus white. — The var. Hookeri, Clarke 1. c, 

 differs only in the rather broader heads with more developed ligules ; var. piibescens, 

 from Chumba, has hairs on the leaf-nerves beneath. 



2. S. chrysanthemoldes, DC. Prodr. vi. 366; glabrous below, 

 pubescent above, stem erect usually much eorymbosely branched, leaves glabrous 

 rarely hoary beneath, lower lyrate-pinnatifid with an aurieled petiole and large 

 gashed terminal lobe, upper sessUe broadly amplexicaul pinnatifld, the lobes 

 often very large, auricle gashed and toothed, heads ^ in. diam. numerous brac- 

 teolate corymbose many-fld., invol. bracts 10-12 oblong acute, ligules 8-12, 

 achenes glabrous or puberulous all with white pappus or the ray without 

 pappus. 



Tbmphratb HiMALATi.; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 8-13,000 ft. KkasiaMts., 

 -alt. 4-5000 ft. 



The commonest Seneeio of the Himalaya, simulating the European 8. chrysamthe- 

 mifolius, but with glabrous achenes. Stem 2-6 ft., robust, striate. Leaves, lower 

 sometimes reduced to an ovate or oblong crenate blade, at others lyrate with a large 

 terminal and few or many small lateral lobes, always less acutely cut than the upper, 

 and narrowed into a long or short winged petiole ; upper leaves 1-9 by ^-4 in., with 

 always broadly aurieled toothed bases ; rarely all the leaves are lyrate-pinnatifid ; 

 .terminal lobes ovate, oblong or deltoid. Corymb in ordinary states much branched 

 with aurieled forks and stout peduncles with filiform bracte ; invol. bracts ^-J in., 

 thickened at the bases. Achenes i in., strongly ribbed. 



Var. 1. chrysanthemoides proper; lower leaves glabrous lyrate-pinnatifid, upper 

 sessile amplexicaul, heads many glabrescent, achenes glabrous all pappose. S. chry- 

 santhemoides, DC. 1. 0. S. laoiniatus and stipulatus. Wall. Cat. 3124, 3126. S. laetus, 

 Edgew. in Trans. Linn. 8oo. xx. 74. S. Jacobaea, Don Prodr. 179. — Common. 



Vak. 2. sisymbriiformis ; puberulous, all the leaves lyrate with a large terminal 

 •ovate toothed lobe, heads pubescent, achenes all pappose. S. sisymbriiformis, DC. 

 Prodr. -n. 366; Clarke Comp. Ind. 190.^N.W. India, Boyle; Kashmir, Falconer; 

 Marri, Fleming. 



Tab. 3. spectabilis; foliage, &c., of var. 1, but ray flowers without pappus. 

 ■S. spectabilis. Wall. Cat. 3127, a.c; DC. I.e. 



Var. 4. khasiana ; foliage and heads of var. 1, but achenes puberulous, pappus of 

 ray-fl. scanty or 0, of the disk white or reddish. S. spectabilis, Wfill. Cat. 3127 B ; 

 tClarke Comp. Ind. 190, in, pwrt. S. paUens, var. khasianus, Clarke I. c. 192. — Khasia 

 Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft. This unites S. diversifolkis with chrysanthemoides. 



Var. 5. analogue ; leaves smaller cobwebby beneath all lyrate-pinnatifid, heads 

 'Usually smaller glabrescent or hoary, achenes all pappose. — S. analogus, DC. I. c. 

 N.W. India, Boyle ; Kashmir, Falconer, Thomson ; Marri, Fleming. 



3. S. bracteolatus, Sook. f. ; dwarf, simple, 4-6 in. high, stem above 

 •and leaves beneath tomentose, radical-leaves long petioled elliptic obtuse toothed 

 or lobulate, cauline sessile with shorter petioles pinnatifidly lobed, beads 1-8 

 f in. diam. many-fld., bracteoles many subulate-lanceolate half as long as and 

 appressed to the sinoilar purplish invol. bracts, ligules 10-12 longer than the 

 involucre 4-nerved, achenes glabrous, pappus white. 8. alpinus, ClarTse Comp. 

 Ind, 190, not of Scopoli. 



SntKiM Himalata; alt. 15-16,000 ft,, J. D. H. 



I at first supposed this to be an alpine dwarf form of 8. chrysanthemoides, but the 

 many long bracteoles of the involucre are very different from what any form of that 

 plant presents. I found it but once, at an early season for the lofty elevation it 

 inhabits, and the ticket was lost with many of my specimens from that region. It is 

 a high Alpine form, and hence specimens from other localities would show much 

 variation from those described. It differs from 8, alpinus notably in the bracteolate 

 lieads, 



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