Samsiirea.] lxxtiii, compositj;. (J. D. Hooker.) 371 



iaYol. bracts narrow lanceolate, recept. bristles short, achenes (unripe) short 

 emooth, outer pappus bristles many short scabrid. 



■Western Himalaya; Kumaon, BUnkworth, alt. 12,000 ft., Edgeworth. Westeek 

 Tibet ; Salt Marshes, Ladak and below the Ladak Pass, alt. 15-16,000 ft., Thomson. 

 Barjl Kang, alt. 13,500 ft., StraoK # Winterb. 



Boot, long, stout ; crown divided. Leaves 2-5 by j5j-| in. ; sheathing petioles '. 

 membranous, 1 in., glabrous, except at the margins, contrasting with the silky wool of 

 the stem, which is ^ in. thick round the base of the head. Invol. bracts njembranous ; 

 corolla not J in. long ; anther-tails fimbriate. Achenes (unripe) small, j'„ in. long ; 

 pappus pale brown. — A very distinct species. , 



Var. glahrata ; sparsely woolly, more slender, leaves more erect, invol. bracts 

 shorter and straighter not hidden below in silky wool, achenes longer pale shining 

 4-angled. — Western Tibet. Though differing so much in the involucre and in wooUi- 

 ness from the type, I can hardly doubt this being a form of S.graminifoUat 



20. S. Kookerl, Clarice Comp. Ind. 230; stem 4-6 in. stout much 

 thickened (and hollow) upwards siUoly woolly, leaves slender narrowly linear 

 from a dilated scarious base curved tomentose beneath margins quite entire 

 recurved, head solitary l-lj in., bracteate by broad obtuse short appressed 

 leaves, invol. bracts broadly lanceolate or ovate, recept. bristles long dense, 

 achenes short, outer pappus bristles short scabrid. 



Alpine Himalaya; Tibetan frontier of Kumaon, Balch Pass, alt. 16,000 ft., 

 Straoh. ^ Winterb. ; and of Sikkim, alt. 17,000 ft., J. D. H., Elwes. 



Sootstock stout, simple or divided, clothed with black scarious dried petiolar 

 sheaths ; stem shorter stouter and more leafy than in S. grammifolia ; leaves rather 

 broader, more coriaceous, floral usually short and broad, but very variable ; corolla 

 nearly | in. ; achenes unripe very small, pappus very pale ^ in. 



21. S. bleracioides, Hooh. f. ; softly villous, stem 4-8 in, slender, 

 radical leaves petioled elliptic acute villous on both surfaces quite entire or 

 obscurely toothed nerves spreading, cauline few lineiir-oblong, heads 1-1^ in. 

 diam. solitary woolly at the base, invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate erect coloured, 

 recept. bristles short, achenes very short smooth, outer pappus bristles scabrid. 



Sikkim Himalaya; Tungn, near the Tibetan frontier, alt. 12-1-1,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Habit of Hieracium alpinum, uniformly villous with soft spreading hairs. Slock 

 short, stout, simple, clothed with scarious dark peliolar remains. Leaves few, radical 

 li-2J by f— l-j- in., green ; petiole variable, slender. Invol. bracts wholly or margined 

 with purple, inner glabrous ; corolla 1 J in. ; anther-tails short, very woolly. Achenes 

 (unripe) i in., very broad; pappus J in. pale. 



22. S. g'landulig'era, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hook. ; stem 4-8 in. and 

 leaves on both surfaces glandular-pubescent or -puberulous, leaves narrowly 

 linear-lanceolate irregularly sinuate toothed, petiole dilated into a narrow 

 glabrous sheath with often woolly base and margins, cauline subsimUar, heads 

 solitary 1-1 J in. usually bracteate by linear leaves, invol. bracts lanceolate green 

 erect pubescent or woolly, recept. bristles long, achenes 4-angled scaberulous, 

 outer pappus bristles short scabrid. 



Western Tibet; Ladak, alt. 14-16,000 ft., Thomson, Heyde; Lahoul, Hay. 



Boot very stout ; stock branched. Leaiies 2-4 in. (larger in var. major), pale 



green ; petiolar sheaths of radical, very conspicuous pale chestnut brown, ribbed, with 



soft white- silky wool at the bases of the younger. Invol. bracts pale, not numerous; 



' corolla nearly ^ in. ; anther-tails short woolly. Achenes ^ in. long, pale, much cupped 



at the top '; pappus-hairs J in., pale brown or blueish. 



Yka. major; taller, leaves large and broader 8-10 by 1-2 in. puberulous only, 

 heads 1-3, corolla f; in. — Piti, alt. 14-17,000, Tliomson. Tibet north of Kumaon, 

 z!it. \%,Wi in,., Strach, S[ Winterb. This approaches & Jraciea^a. . 



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