382 Lxxviii. COMPOSITJ!. • (J. D; Hooker.) : [Tricholepis. , 



more subulate shorter invol. bracts, distantly ribbed aelienes, ,aud conspicuous 

 though ;short pappus ; the leaves also are more entire and have stronger nerves. 



8. T. ang^ustifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 664, exel. syn. ; quite glalDrous, very- 

 slender, branches spreading angled quite smooth, leaves sessile but not amplexi- 

 caul lower obovate upper linear-oblong all entire or subserrate covered vvith 

 raised points, heads small |-J in. diam. ovoid on slender peduncles, invol. bracts 

 acicular from a lanceolate , base recurved glabrous, recegt.. bristles longer tban 

 tlie oblong smooth faintly fibbed aehenes, pappus 0. Clarke Comp. Ind. 240. 



Westeen Peninsuia ; Travancore, Klein ; Mangalore, HohmacJc^r ; Canara, 



A very slender species, at times resembling in habit T. radicatls, at others more 

 erect with longer straighter branches, small heads, and aehenes- like those of T. 

 amplexicatdis, but only -^ in. long. 



9. T. tibetica, Hooh. f. ^- T. in Clarhe Comp. Ind. 241 ; woody below, 

 quite glabrous, branches erect cylindric quite smooth, leaves small sessile 

 coriaceous scattered without raised points, lower distantly pinnatifid upper 

 ovate linear entire base simple, heads J-f in. diam. scaberulous, outer invol. 

 bracts ovate-subulate inner subulate-lanceolate rigid suberect, recept. bristles 

 longer than the linear-oblong silvery truncate aehenes, pappus a brush of com- 

 pressed bristles twice as long as the aehenes. 



Westeen Tibet and Nobthekn Kashmie; alt. 8-12,000 |ft., Falconer, &e. — 

 DiSTEiB. Affghanistan. 



A corymbosely branched undershrub, about a foot high, naked below ; branches 

 slender, virgate, terminating, in a strict peduncle with a small erect head. Leaves 

 1-3 in. long, very narrow, obtuse, lobes of the pinnatifid ones few spreading or 

 recurved triangular or oblong acute, upper ^1 in., -ig-^ in. diam., subacute. Invol. 

 bracts appressed, minutely scabrid, inner ^ in. long ; corolla red, more than J in. long. 

 Aolienes (unripe) ^ in., obscurely ribbed, top with a distinct broad rim to which the 

 pappus is attached, basal areole very oblique ; pappus-hairs §■ in. long, nearly white, 

 one or two of the innermost often much longer than the rest, ani flattened as in 

 Jurinea modesta and Volutarella divaricata. — This has the habit, truncate acheue, 

 and pappus of Jurinea cJuetolepis, Boiss., from Affghanistan (Tricholepis spartoides, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 241), which has the involucre of a Tricholepis, and the oblique 

 basal areole of the achene, and is rightly referred to the latter genus by Clarke. 



* * * Pappus-hairs feathery, 



10. T. stictophylluxn, Clarke Comp. Ind. 241 ; quite glabrous, stem 

 or 6-12 in. sparingly branched fi:om the base, branches angular grooved leafy 

 below, leaves seasUe ^-amplexicaul linear or ligulate quite entire or obscurely 

 toothed acute covered with obscure raised points, nerves parallel to the midrib, 

 heads 1-1^ in. diam. at the naked ends of the branches glabrous, invol. bracts 

 appressed glabrous outer ovate acuminate inner linear-lanceolate with erect 

 flexuous tips, reeept. bristles longer than the linear-oblong compressed many- 

 ribbed truncate aehenes, pappus copious of slender feathery hairs. Stictophyllum 

 glabriun. Edgew. in Trans Linn, Soc. xx. 78. Onicus angustifoiius, Wall. Cat. 

 2915. 



Westeen HiMALAyA ; Garwhal at Kansrow Ghat, Falconer; Subsiwalik hiUs, iu 

 grassy places, Edgeworth. Central India (probably Saugur), Jerdon. 



Soot perennial ? ; habit subscapigerous. Leaves 3-5 by i-J in., flat, qiiite smooth ; 

 midrib slender, fleorfs rarely 2 together ; invol. bracts ^-f in. ; corolla | in., straight. 

 Aehenes ^ in. long, pale, margins rounded, basal areole very oblique; top rather 

 dilated, as in T. tibetica ; pappus | in. long, soft, silvery brown, hairs slightly united 

 at the base. — An anomalous plant, with the habit and involucre of Serratiila, and the 

 pappus of Jurinea ; the, achene is, however, quite that of Tricholepis tibetica, and 



