368 Lxxvm. cohtositj!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Sausstirea. 



9. S. Stoliczkai, Clarke Comp. Ind. 225; dwarf, densely tufted, white 

 with cottony wool, leaves ohovate-ohlong or ohlanceolate lyrate or sinuate- 

 pinnatifid cottony beneath or on hoth surfaces, lobes acute or obtuse short very 

 irregular terminal ovate, head g— 1 in. diam. sessile, invol. bracts linear-lanceolate^ 

 outer with broad bases inner narrower membranous with dark tips, receptacle 

 densely bristly, outer pappus bristles few scabrid. 



Westeen Tibet and Ktjnawub; alt. 13-16,000 ft., Thomson, StoliczTca. 



Boot stout ; branches of stock often as thick as the little finger, crown divided 

 into very stout short 1-headed branches clothed with brown scarious leaf-sheaths. 

 Leaves 1-2 in., usually snow white, lobes sometimes a little recurved, obtuse or 

 acute. Invol. bracts § in. long, sheathed by the bases of the uppermost leaves; 

 corolla upwards of ^ in. ; anther-tails short woolly. Achenes glabrous, J in. long ; 

 pappus 5 in. brown. 



10. S. Sug'hoo, Clarke Comp. Ind. 225 ; dwarf, stem or 4-6 in., leaves 

 oblong-obovate or ohlanceolate acute very coriaceous narrowed into the petiole 

 coarsely toothed or runcinately pinnatifid with the teeth and lobes apiculate 

 scaberulous above white-tomentose beneath, heads ^ in. diam. solitary sessile or 

 2-3 shortly peduncled glabrous or puberulous, outer invol. bracts lanceolate 

 from an ovate base coriaceous inner hnear acuminate scarious, receptacle bristly,, 

 outer pappus-bristles scabrid or 0. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; towards the Tibetan frontier, alt. 12-16,000 ft., J. D. H., T. 

 Anderson. 



Very variable, smaller specimens have a divided root-etoek J-1 in. long and one 

 sessile head, larger have an undivided stock and an elongating leafy stem 6 in. high 

 with 2 or more peduncled heads. Leaves coriaceous in the larger specimens, 3 in. 

 long with a slender petiole 1-1^ in., in smaller the leaves are shorter petioled or 

 subsessile, upper surface reticulated. Invol. bracts above margined and tipped with 

 dark purple ; corolla more than i in. ; anther-tails short, woolly. Aehenes muricate 

 and sparsely villous ; pappus ^ in. pale brown. 



11. S. Yakla, Clarke Comp. Ind. 227 ; dwarf, stemless, leaves sessile or 

 petioled spreading large short or long linear-oblong pinnate or piimatifid mem- 

 branous puberulous above white-tomentose beneath, lobes or segments broadly 

 ovate or subtriangular sinuate-toothed tips and teeth mucronate, heads 1-3 very 

 large 1-3 in. diam. sessile pubescent or glabrate, invol. bracts narrowly lanceo- 

 late acuminate rather membranous pale, recept. bristles long, anther-tails laciniate, 

 achenes 4-gonous muricate, outer pappus-hairs 0. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Yeumtong and Chola, alt. 11-12,000 ft., J. D. H. Yakla, alt. 

 16,000 ft., Olarke. 



Boot-stock woody, undivided. Leaves very flaccid in specimens from 11-12,000 ft., 

 10-15 by 2-2^ in., in those from 16,000 ft. 3-4 in. by 2-3 in. Beads very variable ; 

 invol. bracts erect; corolla nearly 1 in. long. Achenes^ in., angled; angles- 

 muricate, crown strongly cupped; pappus f in., brown. — Habit of a Dolom^sa 



Sect. 3. Caulescentes. Heads solitary, rarely 2-3 on an erect elongate 

 quite simple stem or leafy peduncle 1-6 in. high. Leaves both radical and 

 cauline. (Heads sometimes sessile, see also forms of species in sect. 2.) 



* Leaves pinnati/id or 'pinnate, white heneath. 



12. S. taraxicifolia, Wall. Cat. 2914 ; stem or 1-6 in. glabrous or 

 cottony, leaves petioled spreading linear elongate runcinate-pinnatifid glabrous 

 or nearly so abpve white-tomentose beneath, lobes nnmerous oblong or obtusely 

 triangular rarely toothed or lobulate, tips and teeth mucronate, head solitary 

 1-lJ in. diam. glabrous or sparsely cottony, invol. bracts lanceolate, receptacle 



