388 LXXYiii. COMPOSURE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Hodistetteria. 



of pits often shortly paleaceous. Anther-bases sagittate, tails long, lanceolate. 

 Sti/le-arnvi linear, obtuse. Achenes turbinate, villous ; pappus of 10 stellately 

 spreading slender pales, margins Tjelow lij'aline, above slender and barbellate. 



■ 1. B. Schlmperl, BC. Coll. Mem. ix. t. 6; ri-och: vii. 287; Boiss. Fl. 

 Orient, iii. 219 ; Clarlne Comp. Ind. 246. 



SciND, DcUsell. — DisTBiB. Arabia, Kubia. 



Nearly glabrous, 1-2 ft. ; branches slender, erect or ascending, nearly smooth, fur- 

 rowed. Leaves shortly petioled, ovate or elliptic, acute, serrulate ; nerves very slender. 

 Heads |-i in. diam., involucrate by 1-2 small leaves ; invol. bracts straight, very 

 rigid, 1-nerved ; corolla \ in. Achenes ^^ in., turbinate, covered with long brown silky 

 hairs ; pappus pales narrowly subulate-lanceolate, inciu-ved, membranous, hyaline, un- 

 dulate with a strong midrib. 



100. AXNSE.Xa:A, BC. 



Subscapigerous, erect, perennial, simple or branched herbs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, chiefly radical. Heads small, sessile or peduncled, solitary fascicled racemed 

 panicled or spicate, on a single strict slender flowering stem, often pendulous, 

 homogamous, discoid, white or purplish, 1 -d^fld ; fl. b , all fertile, slender ; limb 

 not dilated, unequally 5-partite. Involucre narrow ; bracts oo -seriate, laxly im- 

 bricate, rigid, inner elongate, outer shorter. Anther-bases sagittate ; tails long, 

 bearded. Style-arms nai-rowly cuneate, tips spreading rounded. Achenes ob- 

 lanceolate, subcompressed, ribs or 5-10, hairy; pappus bristles 1-seriate, 

 featheiy. — Disteid. Species 10, Himalayan, Chinese, and Japanese. 



1. A. pteropoda, BC. Prodr. vii. 14; more or less tomentose cottony or 

 hairy, leaves ovate or cordate acute or acuminate suddenly narrowed into 

 a broadly winged petiole, heads in tall strict spikes or lax elongate panicled 

 racemes, achenes 10-ribbed. Clarhe Comp. Ind. 240. A. silhetensis, Clarke in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 411 ; Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, ii. 205. Vernonia 

 lobelioides. Wall. Cat. 2927. Liatris lobelioides. Wall. mss. Perdioium triflo- 

 rum, Sam. mss. Prenanthes ? OandoUeana, Wall. Cat. 3280, inpm-t. 



Temperate Himalaya ; from Simla to Bhotan and the Mishmi hills, alt. 5-8000 

 ft. Khasia Mrs., alt. 6-7000 ft. Maetaban and Tenassekim, iTMr^ ; top of Moolee, 

 alt. 7000 ft.. Parish. 



Leaves 2-5 by 1^-3 in., membranous or rather thick, sparsely hairy glabrate or 

 white-tomentose beneath, obscurely crenate ; petiole as long as the blade. Flowering 

 stem 1-3 ft., with few small lanceolate leaves, cobwebby cottony or glabrous, rarely 

 branched or forked at the base ; heads | in. long, solitary or fascicled on the stem or 

 on alternate short spreading lateral branches, 3-fld. ; invol. bracts lanceolate. Achenes 

 1 in., oblanceolate, softly silky; pappus j in., pale brown. 



2. A. ang'ustifolia, Hooh. f. Sr Thorns, mss. ; sparsely hairy, leaves ob- 

 lanceolate acute narrowed into a long petiole obscurely toothed, cauline sessile, 

 heads racemed on the short branches of a long slender panicle, achenes obscurely 

 ribbed. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 412; Comp. Ind. 247. A. glumacea, 

 Klatt in Sitmngsb. Miinch. Akad. 1878, 97. Prenanthes ? OandoUeana, Wall. 

 Cat. 3280, in part. 



Khasia Mrs., alt. 3-5000 ft., De Silva, &e. 



A smaller and more delicate plant than A. pteropoda, with narrower leaves, never 

 abruptlv narrowed nor tomentose beneath ; heads much smaller, J-J in. long ; peduncles 

 and pedicels very slender; achenes ^ in., silky; pappus as long, brown. 



3. A. aptera, BC. Prodr. vii. 14; villous pubescent or glabrate, leaves 

 long-petioled triangular- or orbicular-cordate acute sinuate-lobed or -toothed, 



