380 Lxxvui. coiirosiTJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Trioliolepis. 



taiy, peduneled, liomogamoiis ; flowers all 5; similar, fertile,' yellow red or 

 purple, regular or sutoblique, tube slender, limb 5-cleft to tlie middle. Involucre 

 ovoid or broader ; bracts oo -seriate, very narrow, usually witb long recurved 

 hair-points or mucroiiate, the outer shorter ; receptacle densely bristly. Filir- 

 ments papillose ; anther-bases sagittats, auricles connate, tails slender lacerate. 

 Style-arms slender. Achenes glabrous, oblong or obovoid, smooth, ribbed, basal 

 areole lateral, terminal areole small or broad ; pappus bristles cx) -seriate and 

 very unec[ual, serrulate barbellate or feathery, long and slender or short and 

 paleaceous, or 0. — Disikib. Species 7, all Indian or Affghan. 



' Pappus hairs scabrid, connate, not or slightly Jlattened heloiv ; corolla yellow. 



1. T. ZCarensiam, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 318, 1877, ii. 202 ; 

 tall, erect, woody, villous above with 1-3 heads, upper leaves 3-4 in. lanceolate 

 entire or denticulate puberulous or cottony beneath, heads 2 J in. diani. veiy 

 large braoteate by the upper leaves, invol. bracts innumerable elongate-subulate 

 spreading and incurved rigid white, recept. bristles linear equalling the feathery 

 pappus, achenes oblong 4-5-ribbed smooth, pappus hairs barbellate connate at 

 the base, outer short. Clarhe Comp. Ind. 238 (7". Karensis). 



BiRMA ; Karen hills, O'Eiley ^ Mason. 



Much the largest Indian species. I have seen only a very imperfect specimen, 

 and have taken the characters chiefly from Clarke : the invol. bracts are quite acieular, 

 in very maay series, the inner gradually longer, innermost IJ in., outermost ^ in., 

 all rigid but not pungent, densely ciliate with spreading hairs. ' 



2. T. furcata, DC Prodr. vi. 563; glabrous or puberulous, branched 

 from the base, branches elongate ending in a loug-peduncled head, leaves shortly 

 petioled elliptic or lanceolate acute or acuminate denticulate covered with raised 

 points or scaberulous above and beneath or pubescent beneath, heads IJ in. 

 nodding ebracteate, invol. bracts acieular or filiform from a lanceolate base re- 

 curved ciliate tips black, recept. bristles shorter than the narrowly oblong ribbed 

 smooth achenes, pappus hairs scabrid connate at the base, outer shorter. Clarhe 

 Comp. Ind. 238. T. nigrescens, JUdgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 77. Oarduus 

 trichocephalus. Wall. Cat. 2901. 



Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 5-10,000 ft. 



Stem 2-6 ft., slender. Leaves 2-6 by I3-2J in., smooth or scaberulous above. 

 Invol. bracts very spreading in fruit ; corolla i-1 in , nearly straight, yellpw ; anther- 

 tails subentire. Achenes 1 in., pale, compressed ; pappus hairs very slender, soft, inner 

 1 in., •white. — I can detect no character whereby to separate T. nigrcsceiis ; the amount 

 of ciliation of the bracts varies greatly. 



3. T. Stewartei, Clarhe mss. ; branches rigid leafy, leaves sessile lanceo- 

 late acuminate minutely toothed quite glabrous veins indistinct, heads shortly 

 peduneled 1 in. diam., invol. bracts acieular from an ovate woolly base pale, 

 recept. bristles longer than the achenes, pappus rigid. 



Pdnjab ;' in the Jhelum valley, Stewart. 



Apparently a very distinct species, of which I have seen only tips of branches with 

 imperfect flowers. Leaves 1^ in., rather coriaceous. Invol. bracts yellowish when 

 dry, inner f in. long. Pappus ^ in, long, pale, brown. 



4. T. elongrB'ta, DC. Prodr. vi. 563; pubescent or scaberulous, stem and 

 branches strict, leaves sessile linear oblong-lanceolate elliptic or obovate acute 

 or obtuse toothed serrate or distantly runcinate,tead3 J-1 in. diam., invol. bracts 

 acieular from an ovate base ciliate tips black or not, recept. bristles longer than 

 the 5-angled smooth pale achenes, pappus hairs in many rows short, inner flat- 

 tened below. Clarhe Comp. Ind. 239. Oarduus elongatus, Wall. Cat. 2900, 

 2909. T. lanuginosa, Klotzsch in Seise Pi: Wald. Sot. 79, t. 81. 



