.Smecio.] lxxviii. composite. (J. D. Hooker.) 341 



loose open corymbs, invol. bracts 16-20 linear-oUong l-S-nerved suddenly 

 ■ending in long points, ligules 16-20, achenes strongly ribbed glabrous all ■with 

 white pappus. S. gracilis, Am. Pugill. 31. 



Travancore ; Pulney Mts., Wight. Ceyion ; elevated districts amongst high 

 grass, alt. 7000 ft. 



Boot woody. Stem 1-2 ft., terete. Leaves lower 4-6 by |-J in., rather thick, 

 l-nerved. Peduncles of heads erect, very slender, with setaceous bracts; limb of 

 ' disk-fl. campanulate. Achenes slender, almost black, most minutely scabrid. 



9. S. nilg^lieryanus, DC. in Wight Cmtrih. 23; Prodr. vi. 368; 

 . glabrous pubescent or spaxsely cottony, stem strongly ribbed and angled leafy, 

 lower leaves oblanceolate obtuse or 0, cauline sessile Bnear-oblong from a narrow 

 or dilated auricled base margins flat or recurved toothed or sinuately-pinnatifid 

 l-nerved, heads not numerous ^-^ in. diam. SO-40-fld. bracteolate campanulate 

 very long peduncled in very loose open corymbs, invol. bracts 30-40 oblong 

 subacute, ligules 10-15, achenes most minutely scabrid all with white pappus. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1132 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 198. S. Arnottianus, DC. I.e. 367. 



NixGHEKET Mts. ; alt. 7-8000 ft, Wight, &c. 



Green or white with cottony pubescence. 8tem 12-18 in., stout or slender. 

 Leaves 3-6 in., very A'ariable in width and in depth of cutting, sometimes rigid, 

 scaberulous above. — Specimens from "about Avalanche" (Mclvor), have densely 

 crowded leaves, grey above and quite white beneath, as are the stems and corymbs, 

 but not the involucre, limb of diek-fl. campanulate. Achenes as in ea/lanicus. 



** Perennials, with a woody rootstock or branches. Dishfi. loith oampanv/- 

 iate or funnd-shaped limb, leaves narrow. 



10. S- Griffitbii, Hook.f. 8f Thorns. ; glabrous or pubescent, stem slepder 

 woody erect simple densely leafy below, leaves elongate crowded very narrow 

 linear acute margins revolute upper shorter, heads 1-3 long peduncled ^-1 in. 

 •diam. many-fld. bracteolate, invcu. bracts 12-18 linear-oblong acute l-nerved, 

 ligules 8-14, achenes papUlose or scabrid all with white or yeUovtish pappus. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 194. 



Khasia Mts., ; alt. 5-7000 ft., Griffith, &c. 



Stem 6-12 in. erect, or ascending from a woody stock, rarely forked. Leaves 

 1-2J by ^-^ in., rarely dilated a, little upwards, glabrous above, margins almost 

 meeting beneath at the prominent midrib. Pedimcles continuations of the stem, with 

 scattered, small, erect, subulate leaves ; ligules longer than the invol. bracts, bright 

 yellow ; disk-fl. with a narrow funnel-shaped limb. 



11. S. Kurzii, Clarke mss. ; dwarf, pubescent, rootstock and numerous 

 atout short leafy branches woody, leaves crowded spreading and recurved linear 

 obtuse or apiculate scaberulous, margins recurved, heads ^ in. diam. solitary 

 terminal many-fld. with 15-20 long linear-oblong acute nearly glabrous brao- 

 teoles, ligules 16-20, achenes scabrid all with white pappus. S. Grriffithii, var. 

 Kurzii, Clarke Comp. lipd. 194. 



Martaban; granite rocks on the top of Moolee, Parish; and of Thoung-gyun, 

 Lobb. 



A singular little almost shrubby rigid species, 2-6 in. high. Leaves ^-1^ in. long. 

 Sracteoles half as long as the involucre and more, very slender. 



*** Annuals. Disk-jl. very slender. Leaves pinnatifld in all or entire in 

 S. dubius. 



12. S. coronopifolius, Desf. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 390 ; annual, 

 glabrous, sleioder, often much branched, leaves all cauline rather small and 

 fleshy narrow phmatifid, lower petioled, upper amplexicaul and auricled, heads 

 few 5 in. diam. many fid. long peduncled minutely bracteolate in lax corymbs, 

 invol. bracts 15-20 narrow acute, ligules 8-12 revolute, disk corollas very slender, 



