370 Lxxviii. COMPOSITE. (J! D. Hooker.) [Saussurea.. 



Pappvs more than J in., pale brown. — I can find no difference whatever between thej 

 t^yo following forms except that of the pappus, , . 



Yak. 1. Outer pappus of plumose bristles. — Kashmir. 



Vae. 2. Outer pappus of scabrid bristles or 0. — Western Tibet and Kashmir. 



** Leaves pinnatifid, glah'oas on both swfaces. 



IC. S. Andersoni, C?aj-7je Comp. Ind. 22C; perfectly glabrous, stem 

 or 3-6 in,, leaves apreading linear-elongate sessile or petioled membranous pale 

 beneath runcinate-pinnatifld, lobea distant small short ovate and acute or 

 subulate, heads solitary f-1 in., invoL-bracts ovate or ovate-lanceolate with, 

 dark borders, recept. bristles few, ahther-taila woolly, achenes muricate, pappus 

 dark brown outer 0. 



SiKKiM Himalaya; Lachen, alt. 10-12,000 it.,J.,D.H.; Jongri, alt. 13,000 ft., 

 Clarke. 



This much resembles iS. iaraxicifoUa, but is perfectly glabrous, with very short 

 distant leaf-lobes or -teeth, between which the rachis is linear, the invol. bracts are 

 much broader and highly coloured, the achenes and pappus are very different. 



17. S. eriostemon, Wall. Cat. 2912; nearly glabrous, stem stout 

 elongate 6-12 in. 1-leaved, leaves membranous almost all radical linear pinnati- 

 fidly lobed and toothed, lobes and teeth short broad acute and ariatate, head 

 solitary 1-1^ in. diam., invol. bracts lanceolate subsquarrose, recept. bristles 

 long, anther-tails fimbriate, achenes smooth 4-angled, outer pappus 0, Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 229. Aplotaxia nepalenais, Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. 380 ; IJeless. Ic. 

 Sel. iv. t. 67; DC. Prodr. vi. 529. Centaurea taraxicifolia, Bon Prodr. 167; 

 Less. in. Linnaa, vi. 88. Eriostemon taraxicifolium, Less. Synops. 12. 



NiPAi., Wallwh. 



The foliage of this resembles strongly that of 8. Anderscmi, but the achenes are 

 very different. 



*** Leaves entire or nearly so, tomeniose villous or woolly beneath, or on both 

 smfaces, glandular-pubescent in S. glanduligera. 



.18. S. Ztoylei, Clarke Comp. Ind. 229, excl. syn. ; stem stout 6-18 in. 

 glabrate or cottony, radical leaves 3-10 in. petioled erect elongate-lanceolate 

 acuminate quite entire or sinuate or pinnatifid towards the base only, cauline 

 few sessile ^-amplexicaul, heads large 1^-2 in. usually bracteate tomentose, 

 invol. bracts lanceolate, recept. bristles equalling the long smooth achenes, 

 anther-tails woolly, outer pajpus bristles scabrid. S. uniflora, Clarke I. c. 229, 

 not of Wallich. Aplotaxia Roy lei, DC. Prodr. vi. 539. 



"Western Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Kunawur, alt. 11-14,000 ft., Falcmier, &c. 



■Boot-stock stout, usually simple,- clothed with the remains of broad petiolar 

 sheaths. _ Stem usually very stout and thickened under the head. Leaves very 

 variable in length and breadth, much narrowed at both ends, sometimes runcinate or 

 lyrate-pinnatifid, sometimes snow-white beneath, nearly glabrous in a specimen from 

 Munro, nearly 2 in. broad in some of Thomson's from the Werang Pass. Invol. bracts 

 long, -straight ; corolla short for the size of the head, about I in. long. Achenes \ in. 

 and upwards, narrow, angled and delicately ribbed ; pappus J in., pale brown, outer, 

 bristles numerous, sometimes unilateral. 



■ 19. S. gramlnifolia, Wall. Cat. 2911; stem 6-10 in. vei^ stout much 

 thickened upwards leafy densely silkily woolly and shining,. rarely glabrate, 

 leaves very slender narrowly linear from a dilated shining scarjous base flexuoua 

 tomentose beneath, margins quite entire recurved, head solitai-y 1-1 J in. diam, 

 densely silkily woolly bracteate by many spreading or reflexed or linear lea,Tes, 



