'374 LXXYiu. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Saussurea. 



** Leaves entire or guhpinnatifid, cottony or tomentose beneath; heads narrmo,, 

 erect. 



30. S. albescens, Hooh. f. ^ T. in Clarke Comp. Ind. 283; stem 6-10 

 ft. simple 'below and leaves beneath densely or laxly cottony or tomentose, 

 leaves 4^12 in. acute or acuminate entire or sinuate-loted or siibpinnatifid 

 glabrous scabrid or cobwebby above with slender branching nerves, lower 

 narrowly oblong petioled, upper sessile ovate or linear or oblong-ovate, heads 

 narrow ^f in. long in copious long peduncled terminal and axillary flat-topped 

 corymbs, invol. bracts erect glabrous rarely cottony rigid purplish outer ovate 

 acute, inner lanceolate, recept. bristles long, achenes narrow 4-angled muricate 

 above, outer pappus 0. ? S. ehenopodifolia, Klatt in Sitamgsh. Munch. Akad. 

 1878, 92. Serratula albescens, Wall. Cat. 2918. Aplotaxis albescens, DC. 

 Prodr. yi.5i0. 



Westeen and Centrai, Himaiata. ; from Murree to Nipal, alt. 6-10,000 ft. 



Stem strict, erect, slender for tho height of the plant. Leaves very variable in 

 length and breadth, tip and teeth apicnlate. Heads peduncled, erect ; receptacle very 

 narrow, bristles longer than the achenes ; corolla i in. ; anther-cells fimbriate. 

 Achenes ^-| in. long, top much cupped ; pappus ■white, §—^ in. 



Vak. brachycephala ; leaves very scabrid above, heads J in. long fewer on shorter 

 branches more rounded at the base, invol. bracts shorter inner more ovate, corolla and 

 pappus-hairs j in. — Kashmir, Stewart; Mozufferabad, at the foot of the Kashmir 

 hills. Falcmier. The few short broad flat heads of this look different from those of 

 S. albescens, but there are many intermediate forms. I have seen no achenes. 



*** Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, cottony or tomentose beneath; heads inclined 

 nodding ; recept. bristles very lony. 



31. S. bypoleuca, Spre/ng. mss. in DC. Prodr. vi. 641 ; stem simple or 

 branched above leafy, leaves lyrate or lyrate-pinnatifid sinuate-toothed glabrous 

 above cottony or white beneath membranous terminal lobe large deltoid acute 

 lateral generally one pair triangular acute, heads lJ-2 in. diam. globose nodding, 

 invol. very broad and open bracts lanceolate acmninate ciliate, recept. bristles 

 exceeding the clavellate pappus, achenes short 4^angled tubercled, pappus single. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 234. Oarduus auriculatus. Wall. Cat. 2899. Aplotaxis 

 auriculata, DC. I. c. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 7-13,000. 



Stem rather slender, 2-5 ft., glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 3-8 in., variable in 

 breadth, petioled or sessile, petiole auricled at the base or not, terminal lobe sometimes 

 6 in. diam. Heads long-peduncled, inclined or nodding, very many-fld., base often 

 intruded; invol. bracts often recurved; corolla ^ in., limb as long as the tube; 

 anther-tails long, subulate, quite entire or split near the tip. Achenes ^ in. long, 

 almost cubical, -with obtuse angles, black, strongly tubercled, tip contracted with a 

 terminal toothed cup ; pappus J in. brown. — This and the following are quite unlike 

 any other Indian species, and are the only ones with decidedly nodding heads. 



32. S. deltoldea, Clarice Comp. Ind. 236, var. a and ; stem tall simple 

 below branched above, leaves petioled membranous sinuate-toothed above 

 glabrous or scaberulous beneath white-tomentose or cottony, lower lyrate-pin- 



• natifld terminal lobe very large deltoid lateral variable, upper triangular ovate 

 or deltoid, heads J-lf in. very broad nodding panicled or racemose on the branches 

 of a terminal leafy panicle, invol. bracts hoary short ovate obtuse or long and 

 lanceolate tips and margins pui-ple, recept. bristles shorter than the pappus, 

 achenes short 4-5-angled smooth tubercled or scaly, pappus single. Ku7-z in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 204. Aplotaxis deltoides, DC. Prodr. vi. 641. 



Centbai. and Easteen Himalaya; from Garwhal to Bhotan, alt. 6-11,500 ft. 

 3IAETABAN, or the Nattoung hills, F. Mason. 



