Ainsl'cea.'] Lxxviii. cosiPOSiiiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 389 



heads in inten-upted spikes or spreadina; branched panicles, achenes ohscurely 

 ribbed, aarks Comp. Ind. 247. 



■Tempbeate Himalaya ; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 5-8000 ft., ascending to 

 10,000 in Sikkim. Khasia Mts., alt. 4-5000 ft , J. D. H. ^ T. T. 



Usually a more robust plant than either of the preceding. Leaves sometimes 7 

 in. long and broad, glabrous villous or densely silkily villous ; petiole 3-7 in., glabrous 

 or -villous. Flowering stem 1-3 ft., generally stout and red-brown. Heads ^-J in. long, 

 subsessile or on strict stiff slender peduncles, usually glabrous; bracts sometimes 

 numerous, the outer small and imbricating along the peduncle ; corolla j in. Achenes 

 J in , like those of A. joteropoda, but less distinctly ribbed ; pappus as long, brown. — 

 Very variable in the number, length and breadth of the invol. bracts. 



4. A. Brandisiana, Kun in Jmrn. As. Soo. 1872, ii. 318 ; 1877, ii. 205 ; 

 more or less liirsute, leaves petioled oblong acute quite entire base cordate 

 margins villously fringed, heads in open branched panicles. Clarke Comp. Ind. 

 247. 



Lower Biema ; Karen hills, alt. 2-4000 ft., Kurs. 



Leaves 2J-4J by 1-2 in., sparsely pubescent or glabrous above, sparsely hirsute 

 beneath, densely so along the margins with curled hairs, base shortly cordate with 

 rounded lobes and a very close sinus; petiole 1-2 in., stout, hirsute. Mowering stems 

 12-18 in., pubescent or scabi-id; heads long-peduncled, ^-| in. long; corolla \ in. 

 Achenes unripe, silky. 



101. CATADXXXXS, Thorns. 



An erect imdershrub. Zeaue«-alternate, petioled, obovate or oblong, obtusely 

 serrate. Heads small, narrow, in a broad terminal corymb, yellow P, homoga- 

 mous, few-fld. ; fl. all g , sinailarj ligulate and fertile. Involucre oblong ; bracts 

 few, 00 -seriate, lanceolate, acute, outer shorter ; receptacle small, naked. Anthej-- 

 bases sagittate, tails elongate barbellate. Sti/le filiform, obtuse ; arms very 

 short, erect. Achenes narrowly turbinate, silkily viUous ; pappus hairs sub-2- 

 seriate, slender, scabrid, outer shorter. 



1. C. baccliaroides, Thorns, in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 343, t. 4 ; Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 248. 



"Western Himalaya ; Garwhal, on the Sewalik hills, Eoyle. 



Branches subsilkily pubescent. Leaves 2-3 by 1-1^ in., coriaceous, narrowed into 

 the short petiole, ^-amplexicaul, glabrous ; nerves prominent on both surfaces wlien 

 dry. Corymbs dichotomously branched ; branches slender, puberulous, suberect ; 

 heads \ in. long; lignles spreading; involucre much shorter than the flowers; corolla 

 J in. Achenes -jj in. long ; pappus ^ in., white. 



102. GERBEXIA, Gronov. 



Scapigerous herbs. Leaves radical. Scape naked or scaly. Heads solitary, 

 lieterogamous, radiate, rarely homogamous and discoid, yellow pink or white ; 

 ray-fl., if present, 1-2-seriate, 5 andfertile; disk-fl. §, fertile; both 2-lipped, outer 

 lip of ray-fl. with a 3-toothed ligule, inner 2-partite ; tips of disk-fl. more equal, 

 outer 3-4-fld, inner entire or 2-partite. Involucre turbinate or broadly cam panulate ; 

 bracts 2-00 -seriate, narrow, acute, outer shorter; receptacle flat. Anthe)--bmes 

 sagittate, tails long. Style-arms oi ^ linear, obtuse. ^cAeJies compressed, 6-ribbed, 

 papillose, tip contracted or beaked ; pappus copious, hairs slender, smooth or scabrid, 

 — DlsiEiB. About 20 species, African and Asiatic, temperate or mountain. 



• Heads rayed. 



1. Cr. piloselloides, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. vii. 16 ; leaves shortly petioled 

 elliptic or obovate-oblong obtuse quite entire viUously hirsute beneath, scape 



