372 Lxxviii. cojiPOSiTj!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saussurea. 



Sect. IV. Corymbiferae. Stem 1-3 ft., Bimple, leafy. Leaves not 

 pinnatitid or lobed, radical 0, cauline large sessile or petioled. Heads rather 

 smallj j-f in., in terminal dense corymbs ; receptacle small. Achenes smooth, 

 angled ; outer pappus bristles few or many, scabrid. 



23. S. CandoUeana, Wall. Cat. 3289; stem 1-3 ft. more or less 

 ■winged by the decurrent petioles or leaf bases, leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate denticulate glabrous above cobwebby or cottony beneath, 

 base rounded or abruptly or gradually nan-owed decuiTent, heads J-f in. diam. 

 or in dense terminal corymbs, invol. bracts ovate obtuse or acute glabrous or 

 siUjy, receptacle small bristles longer than the narrow smooth 4-5-angled 

 achenes, outer pappus bristles short scabrid. S. pterocaulon, Dane, in jacq. 

 Voy. Bot. 05, t. 103. Aplotaxis CandoUeana, DC. Prodr. vi. 541. Jurinea 

 adenocarpa, Ledeh. Fl. Moss. ii. 7G5 ; Schrenh. Enum. PI. Nov. i. 46. 



Temperate HiMAtATA; from Kashmir, alt. 8-10,000 ft., Falconer, &o., to Sikkim, 

 alt. ] 1-13,000 ft., J. D. if.— DiSTEiB. Soongaria. 



Stem Btout, deeply grooved. Leaves 3-6 by l-Sj in., oblong and sessile but 

 nerveless, abruptly narrowed below the middle, membranous, rarely quite glabrous- 

 beneath. Heads shortly peduneled ; corolla J-^ in. ; anther-tails fimbriate. Achenes 

 I in., long, narrow, shining ; pappus' |- in. long, pale brown. 



24. S. piptathera, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 76; stem 1-3 ft. 

 not winged, leaves oblong or ovate-oblong with a contracted or dilated ^-am- 

 plexicaul auricled base sharply toothed glabrous above cottony rarely glabrate 

 beneath, heads J in. in a crowded dense corymb, invol. bracts glabrate or silky 

 outer ovate obtuse, inner lanceolate acute, recept. bristles longer than the 

 achenes, outer pappus bristles short scabrid. Aplotaxis discolor, DC. Piodr. 

 vi. 641. 



Westeen Himalaya ; from Chumba to Kumaon, alt. 9-12,000 ft., Royle, &c. 



Very similar to S. CandoUeana in the head, flowers, achenes, &e., bat at oneo 

 distinguished by the stem not being winged, and by the leaf-base. Specimens from 

 Herb. Falconer (without locality) have the leaves quite glabrous on both surfaces. 



26. S. Clarkei, Sook.f.; stem 4-6 in. stout pubescent, leaves 4-5 iir. 

 obovate acute sessile or contracted into a winged petiole sharply toothed 

 membranous puherulous above cottony or glabrate beneath, heads i in. diam. in a 

 dense terminal cluster, invol. bracts glabrous or cottony outer ovate acute inner 

 lanceolate acuminate, recept. bristles longer than the achenes. S. CandoUeana, 

 Clarice Comp. Ind. 230, not of Wcdlich. 



Kashmir, Falconer; Tilail, alt, 13-14,000 ft., Clarke. 



This is in habit intermediate between 8. pterocaulon and S. Atkinsoni, agreeing- 

 with the former in the heads, flowers, &e., but diifering in the emaU size, peculiar 

 habit and leaf-base ; and from the latter (which it resembles in the foliage) in the 

 stout stem, small crowded heads, and recept. bristles. Pappus brown. 



26. S. elliptica, Garlce mss. ; stem 4-6 in. slender cottony, leaves 3-4 

 in. long-petioled eUiptic-ohlong or -lanceolate acute irregularly toothed thinlv 

 cottony on both surfaces, heads a in. diam. in a small ratlier lax terminal 

 corymb, invol. bracts lanceolate acuminate subsilkily villous, receptacle naked, 

 outer pappus bristles numerous scabrid. 



■Western Tibet ; Karakoram, alt. 14,000 ft., Clarke. 



I have seen only three specimens of this very distinct species. Grey-green when 

 dry ; stem ascending from a slender simple or divided stock, curved. Leaves flaccid, 

 narrowed into a very slender cottony petiole. Corolla nearly | in.; anther-tails 

 laeiniate, hardly woolly. Achenes immature ; pappus white, except towards the base. 

 — Closely allied to S. ovata, Benth. (in " Henderson's Yarkand," p. 325), from Eastern 

 Turkistan, but differing in the form of the leaves. 



