390 LxxViii. COMPOSITE. (J.D.Hooker.) [Oerhera. 



TiUous ebracteate, heads rayed, invol. bracts cottony, achenes long with a long 

 slender beak scaly, pappua red. Oreoseris ovalifolia, TVall. Cat. 2930. G. ovali- 

 folia, DC. Z. c. 17; Clarke Comp.Ind.24S. A.mioa piloselloides, Zznre. .4»n(B«. 

 Acad. vi. 103. 



Centkal and Easterk Hiiiai.aya ; Nipal, WaUich ; Sikkim, alt. 7000 ft., J. D. H. 

 Khasu Mts., alt. 6000 ft., Griffith, &c. Lower Biejia ; Karen hills. Mason. — ^Dis- 

 TRiB. China, S. Africa. 



Grown and young leaves densely woolly. Leaves 2-5 by 1-2 in., narrowed into the 

 stout short petiole, glabrous or sparsely hairy above, usually white beneath. Scape 

 12-20 in., stout. Head 1-1^ in. diam. ; invol. bracts linear- lanceolate, suberect ; ligules 

 J in. long. Aohenes Jin., very slender ; pappus about as long. 



2. Cr. lanug-inosa, BentJi. in Gen. PI. ii. 497; leaves obovate or oblan- 

 eeolate acute or acuminate lobulate towards the base or lyrate-pinnatifld or 

 petiole auricled rarely entire glabrous and shining above densely cottony beneath, 

 scape cottony ebracteate, heads rayed, invol. bracts cottony, achenes slender 

 hardly beaked subpapillose, pappus white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 249, excl. syn. O. 

 pusilla. Oreoseris lanuginosa, DC. Prodr. vii. 17; Deless. Ic. Sel, iv. t. 76. 

 Oreoseris lanuginosa, Wall. Cat. 2929 A. C. Ohaptalia gossj';pina, Royle 111. 

 251, t. 59, f. 2. 



Western Himalaya ; from Murree, Fleming, to Kumaon, alt. 4-8000 ft. 



Crown and young leaves silkily woolly. Leaves 2-5 by |-lj in. (exceptionally 

 7-10 by 3-3^ in.), petiole long or short, usually sinuately-pinnatifid at the base only, 

 lobes rounded, rarely entire or pinnatifidly lobed throughout. Scape 4-12 in., cottony, 

 slender. J3i?a(Z l-2f in., cottony; outer invol. bracts ovate; inner linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, suberect ; ligules ^ in. long. Achenes \ in., ribbed ; pappus f in. 



Var. pusilla ; leaves -^-1 in., terminal lobe rounded or ovate obtuse or acute, scape 

 ^-6 in., heads ^ in. diam. Oreoseris pusilla, DC. Frodr. vii. 17. 0. lanuginosa. Wall. 

 Cat. 2929 B. — Nipal, WaUich ; Kumaon and Garwhal, Jamieson, Thomson. This has 

 all the appearance of being a starved state of G. lanuginosa. 



3. G-. nivea, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 497 ; leaves obovate or obovate-spathu- 

 late tip rounded pinnatifidly lobed throughout their length, lobes rounded 

 obscurely toothed, sinus acute or obtuse glabrous above densely cottony beneath, 

 scape cottony ebracteate, invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate long-acuminate cottony, 

 inner large and broad, achenes not seen. Oreoseris ? nivea, DC. Prodr. vii. 17. 

 Senecio niveus. Wall. Cat. 3143. Arnica nivea, Wall. I. e, 



Nipal, WaUich. 



Leaves petioled, 2-3^- by 1-1 1, gradually narrowed from the rounded tip down- 

 wards to the short petiole, coriaceous, glabrous above. Scape very slender, cottony, 

 longer than the leaves. Heads drooping, 1^ in. diam. ; invol. bracts with long points, 

 glabrate. Flowers too young for examination. 



4. Gr. SLunzeana, Braun ^ Aachers. inApp. Plant, nov. ad Cat. Sein. HoH. 

 Berol. 1871, 3 ; dioecious, leaves oblong or ovate acute or mucronate subentire or 

 margins lobulate or lyrate-pinnatifid or petiole winged glabrous above densely 

 cottony beneath, lobes apiculate, scape glabrous or cottony above with scattered 

 filiform bracts, invol. bracts glabrous membranous outer ovate, inner broadly 

 lanceolate acuminate, achenes slender hardly beaked scabrid ribbed, pappus 

 chestnut-brown. G. nivea, Clarke Comp. Ind. 249. Cleistanthium nepalense, 

 Kunze in Bat. Zeit. 1851, 350. 



Temperate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Bhotan, alt. 7-12,000 ft. 



Similar in habit and foliflge to G. lanuginosa, but with different invol. bracts and 

 pappus, and at once distinguished from it and all others of the genus by the filiform 

 bracts on the scape. It is most closely allied to the Chinese (?. ariandria, Sehultz- 

 Bip. mss. (^Anandria Bellidiastrum, DC,), which differs in the cottony obtuse invol. 



