Sausswea.] Lxxviii. coLiPOSiriE. (J. D. Hooker.) 373 



Sect. V. Elatae. . Stems tall, leafy, simple 'below, corymtosely branched 

 above. Leaves all caulino or radical and cauline. Heads erect or suberect 

 numerous in branched corymbs all peduncled ; invol. bracts rigid, anther-tails 

 fimbriate or subentire. Pappus very slender, outer bristles 0. 



* Leaves lyrate-pinnatijid, cottony beneath ; heeds broad O'cct or suberect. 



27. S. affinis, Spreng. mss. in DC. Prodi: vi. 540; stem 2-8 ft. simple 

 Ijelow and inflorescence glabrous, leaves lyrate-pinnatifid cottony beneath 

 radical petioled cauline sessile uppermost sinuate-lobed or entire, heads long- 

 peduncled in large open panicled corymbs, invol. bracts glabrate outer ovaite 

 obtuse or acute inner lanceolate acuminate, recept. bristles long, achenes smooth 

 10-ribbed, outer pappus 0. Clarice Comp. Ind. 232. Aplotaxis multicaulis, 

 DC. in Deless. Ic. Sel, iv. t. G8 ; Prodr. vi. 540. A. carthamoides. Ham. in 

 DC I.e. A. Bungei, DC. I.e. 639. Hemistepha lyrata, Bunge in Fisch. et 

 Mey. Ind. Sem. ii. 1835, 38. Serratula multicaulis, Wall. Cat. 2897. S. car- 

 thamoides, Poxb. Hoi-t. Beng. 60; Fl. Ind. iii. 407. Cnicus carthamoides, 



Wall. Cat. 2896. Cirsium lyratum, Bunge Fnum. PI. Chin. 36. 



Bengal; from Silhet to the foot of the Nipal Hills. Biema ; Salueu Eiver, 

 WallicA. — DisTEiB. China, Japan. 



Annual, stem sometimes as thick as the little finger, and peduncles groovecl. 

 Leaves, radical 4-8 in., membranous, glabrous or puherulous above. Heads 1 in. diam. 

 or less; invol. bracts pale, rarely a little cottony; corolla ^ in. long, very slender, 

 pale red ; anther-tails short, fimbriate. Aclicnes Jj in., oboToid, tip Contracted ; 

 pappus hairs J in., very slender, white. 



28. S. candicans, Clarice Comp. Lid. 232 ; stem 2-5 ft. simple below 

 and inflorescence cottony, leaves oblong or obovate-oblong entire or sinuate- 

 toothed or lobulate at the base or lyrale-pinnatifid glabrous or pubescent above 

 cottony or white tomentose rarely glabrous beneath, heads long-peduncled in 

 large open panicled corymbs, invol. bracts cottony or pubescent lanceolate 

 acuminate, recept. bristles long, achenes 5-angled muricate, outer pappus 0. 

 S. brahuica, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 566. Aplotaxis candicans, DC. Prodr. vi. 

 540. A. scaposa, Edgem. in Trans. Linn. So:: xx. 76. Onicus candicans, 

 Wall. Cat. 2893 A. 0. D. Cirsium heteromalluai, Spreng. Syst. iii. 372. 

 Carduus heteromallus, Don Prodi: 166, excl. syn. Roxb. 



SuBTROPioAi. and Tempeilate Western India and the Himalaya ; from the Salt 

 Uange, Hazara and Kashmir to Bhot.an, alt. 2-7000 ft. — ^Distbib. Affghanistan. 



A more robust plant than S. affinis, with less divided leaves, larger heads, and 

 very different achenes. Leaves sometimes 18 by 5 in. Heads 1-1| in. diam.; corolla 

 upwards of ^ in. long; anther-taila lacerate. Achenes 1 in., top cupnlar, very variable 

 .as to rugosity ; pappus-hairs very slender, white, equalling the corolla. — Small speci- 

 mens are scapose and even 1-headed. 



29. S> foliosa, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Sac. xx. 77 (Aplotaxis) ; stem 

 1-2 ft. copiously branched leafy and inflorescence pubescent, leaves 3-4 in. 

 lyrate-pinnatifid puberulous above cottony beneath lobes rounded, heads small 

 ^ in. on slender long axillary and terminal peduncles, invol. bracts very slender 

 with acicular points, recept. bristles long, achenes obtusely 4-angled smooth or 

 somewhat tubercled, outer pappus 0. 



■Westeen Himalaya ; Garwhal and Kumaon, alt. 7-8000 ft., Edgeworth, Strach. Sf 

 Winterb. 



Referred by Clarke to 8. candicans, but I think quite distinct in habit, and 

 iSspecially in the small heads with almost subulate bracts, the very small corollas, and 

 short pappus, neither of which exceed J in. 



