J LXXYiii. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 343 



like S. vulgaris, but the heads are erect, and are not conical by the inflexion of the 

 invol. bracts after flowering. It Is very near S. ramosms, but the heads are rather 

 larger and ligules longer. Perhaps both these are vars. of S. agyptims, L. 



Sect. II. Pseudo-jacobaea. Seads radiate, bracteolate; invol. bracts 

 many-seriate, imbricate ; fl. aU pappose ; anther-cells not tailed. — The habit 

 and involucre of the species are peculiar ; the flowers are those of S. Jacobsea. 



17. S. lavandulaefolius, DC. in Wight Contrib. 23 ; Prodr. vi. 368 ; 

 woolly, stems stout woody erect densely leafy unbranched, leaves 1 in. densely 

 imbricate linear-oblong from a broad subauricled base obtuse, margins strongly 

 recurved entire rarely toothed or 3-fid, heads ^ in. diam. campanvuate in dense 

 or open corymbs, invol. bracts 20-40 many-seriate closely imbricate, outer 

 subulate or lanceolate acuminate, ligules 10-16 short, achenes slender glabrous 

 shorter than the soft white pappus. Wight. Ic. 1. 1133 ; Clarke Comp. Tnd. 193. 



NiLGHEBET Mts; ; in pastures, alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 



Stems from a woody stock, 6-12 in., very strict. Leaves thickly woolly, especially 

 beneath, uniformly smaller upwards. Corymbs with stout erect branches and 

 peduncles ; heads glabrate or woolly. — This is a very anomalous plant, on account of 

 the numerous many-seriate invol. bracts, in some beads about 20, all narrowly 

 lanceolate, glabrate ; in others up to 40 and tomentose, the inner broadly oblong ; 

 between these states there are all intermediates. One of Wight's specimens had been 

 injured by an insect, and the leaves on the lower part of its stem are flat and 

 irregularly cut, or even deeply trifid with acute spreading lobes ; the uppermost are, 

 however, as in all the numerous other specimens' from 7 collectors, linear-oblong, 

 quite entire, with strongly recurved margins, and are densely imbricate. 



Sect. III. Dladaractis. Heads turbinate or obconic, all radiate, usually 

 bracteolate ; invol. bracts 1-seriate ; ligules broad and long, usually 4-nerved ; 

 anther-cells not tailed ; ray-fl. (all in 8. belgawmensis') epappose ; pappus often 

 shorter than the achenes, rigid, scabrid, often reddish, unequal, sometimes sub- 

 biseriate, the outer hairs very short (pappus paleaceous below in S. GrahamX). 

 (See also S. chrysanthemifdius, var. spectabilis' 3,ndi S. diversifoliiis, both with 

 epappose ray-fl.). 



* Leaves not white and cottony beneath, rarely pinnatifid, 



18. S> linifolius, Clarke Comp. Ind. 202 ; glabrous, stem herbaceous 

 erect or ascending fastigiately leafy, leaves sessile elongate-linear subacute entire 

 or distantly serrate baie contracted not auricled 1-nerved, heads few bracteolate 

 long-peduncled in lax corymbs, invol. bracts 16-30 J in. long linear-oblong 

 acuminate, achenes slender glabrous equalling the red pappus. Doronioum 

 linifolium, DC. Prodr. vi. 322. Aster odontophyUus and linifolius, WM. Cat. 

 3285, 3287. Synanthera, Wall. Cat. 7132. 



Khasia Mts. ; on rocky banks of streams, alt. 4-7000 ft. 



Eoot perennial. Stems 8-18 in., often branched from the base, very smooth. 

 Leaves 3-S by J— i in., green when dry, suberect and spreading, usually numerous and 

 close set, having a fastigiate appearance, occasionally pinnatifidly lobed. Ligules 

 10-12, elliptie-oblong, longer than the invol. bracts. Achenes ^ in.; pappus not 

 much longer, hairs slender, subequal, not cohering at the base, 



19. S. Gardner!, Thwaites Uniim. 167; glabrous, stem herbaceous erect 

 or ascending subsimple, leaves sessile elongate-linear distantly serrate base 

 contracted not auricled 1-nerved, heads few bracteolate long peduncled in lax- 

 corymbs, invol. bracts 10-16 i in. long linear-oblong acuminate glabrous, 

 ligules 8-10 narrow, achenes short linear pubescent equalling the whitish or 

 yellowish pappus. Doronicum Qardneri, Clarke Comp, Ind. 202. 



