Saussurea.] lxxviii. compositjj. (J. D. Hooker.) 367 



leaves small ^-IJ in. sessile or naiTowed into a short thick petiole olovate or 

 -oblong obtuse quite entire or obtusely toothed densely coriaceous nerveless, 

 uppermost orbicular sheathing the involucre, heads one or more sessile crowded 

 aubglobose, invol. bracts obovate-oblong obtuse glabrous, receptacle fimbrillate, 

 ^pappus double both feathery. S. acaulas, Klatt in Sitzung. Munch. Akad. 1878, 

 ■91. 



Wbsteen Tibet ; Nubra, alt. 17-18,000 ft., Thomson; Schlagintweit. 



Boot fusiform, crown very short.. Leaves variable, always thickly coriaceous, in a 

 flowerless specimen 2J in. long and narrowly spathulate, in most others spreading 

 obovate, midrib very indistinct. Heads ^ in. diam., densely clustered, sheathed by 

 rounded floral leaves which are much shorter than the involucre; invol. bracts 

 purplish ; corolla J in. long. ; anther-tails short, entire. Achenes ^ in., glabrous, ripe 

 not seen ; pappus \ in., brown, all the hairs softly feathery. 



6. S. wemerioldes, Schvltz-Bip. in Herh. Hook. ; dwarf, densely tufted, 

 leaves \-^ in. narrowed into densely imbricating sheathing petioles lanceolate 

 coriaceous glabrous above densely tomentose beneath, tip subulate, margins 

 toothed revolute often to the midrib, heads solitary sessile amongst the leaves 

 \-\ in. diam., invol. bracts lanceolate acuminate rigid or broad and concave, 

 receptacle bristly, pappus double both feathery. S. subulata, Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 226, in part. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; on the Tibetan frontier, alt. 16-18,000 ft., J. B. H. 



Boot a foot long ; crown dividing into numerous densely tufted branches J-1 in. 

 long, together forming cushions. Leaves erect or spreading, very coriaceous, rather 

 glossy above. Invol. bracts very variable, often purple, glabrous or sparsely woolly, 

 sometimes lanceolate acuminate, at others apparently replaced by the short concave, 

 coriaceous sheaths of the uppermost leaves ; recept. bristles (overlooked in Clarke's 

 description) rigid, scabrous ; corolla i in. ; anther-tails long, woolly. Achenes very 

 small (not ripe). 



* * Outer pappus of scabrid bristles or ; leaves entire or pinnatifid. 



7. S. subulata, Clarke Comp. Ind. 226, in part ; dwarf, densely tufted, 

 below densely clothed with imbricating sheathing petioles, leaves ^-1^ in. very 

 laxly hairy or glabrate sparsely woolly towards the base linear-lanceolate or 

 subulate narrowed into the sheathing petiole, tip subulate, margin quite entire 

 revolute to the midrib, heads J-1 in. diam. solitary sessile amongst the leaves, 

 invol. bracts oblong-lanceolate acuminate rigid, receptacle flmbrillate, outer 

 pappus bristles scabrid. S. setifolia, Klatt in Sitzung. Munch. Akad. 1878, 95. 



Western Tibet; Nnbra, alt. 15-18,000 ft., Thomson. — Disteeb. Yarkand. 



Habit of 8. wemerimdes, but the leaf bases are woolly, the leaves much narrower, 

 not at all toothed, and less coriaeeous, the heads are larger, the receptacle fimbrilli- 

 ferous, and the few outer pappus bristles are scabrid. It may be a dwarf high alpine 

 form of 8. glandvlifera ; the anther-tails are short and bearded. 



8. S. Atkinsoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 224 ; stemless, glabrous or midrib 

 and nerves of leaves beneath pubescent, leaves 3-5 petioled or sessile spreading 

 from the root broadly obovate or elliptic membranous toothed reticulate, head 

 sessile solitary, inner invol. bracts linear oblong scarious, receptacle naked or 

 entire, outer pappus bristles few. scabrid. 



Western Himaiaya ; from Kashmir to Garwhal, alt. 10-13,000 ft., Falconer, &c. 



Boot-stock undivided. Leaves i\-i by lJ-3 in., spreading flat on the ground. 

 Head f-1 in. long ; outer invol. bracts very variable, ovate-lanceolate, erect or re- 

 curved, glabrous or margins pubescent ; corolla iipwards of \ in. ; anther-cells shortly 

 flmbriate. Achenes glabrous ; pappus J in., brown. — See remarks under 8. Clarkei in 

 reference to this species. 



