Crepts.j Lxsvm. comtosit^. (J. D. Hooker.) 397 



Hoot-stock long, creeping, sometimes divided. Leaves ^-IJ in., rather succulent, 

 tip broad rounded or acute. Scapes or peduncles shorter than the leayes, pubescent 

 or glabrate. Heads quite glabrous, 20-30-fld. ; inner invul. bracts 10-12, green, or 

 the overlapped edges pale. Closely allied to C. depressa. 



11. C> depressa, Hooh. f. S^ Thorns. ; peremiial, stemless, puljerulous, 

 leaves rosulate very stoutly petioled ovate or rounded obscilrely toothed or 

 sinuate-toothed 5-nerved from near the base, heads crowded amongst the radical 

 leaves ^ in. long-peduncled bracteolate, invol. bracts strap-shaped obtuse or sub- 

 acute nearly glabrous, aohenes very slender fusiform bealred ribbed quite smooth 

 shorter than the white smooth pappus. C. glomerata, Clarke Comp. Ind. 255, 

 expl. syn. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; near the Tibetan frontier, alt. 15-17,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Eoot as thick as the little finger and crown woody. Leaves 1-2 in. long, rather 

 fleshy, base rounded ; petiole as long or shorter, very thick. Heads very numerous, 

 invol. bracts green, inner -with scarlous margins, base rather thickened in fruit, 

 glabrous or with a few hispid hairs. Achenes j- in., dark brown with a pale beak; 

 pappus i-| in. 



Sect. IV. Hieracloides. Heads rather broad, panicled or racemose ; 

 outer invol. bracts very short, inner linear 1-seriate. Achenes small, slender, 

 narrowed at both ends ; pappus hairs brownish, rigid, brittle. 



12. C. silhetensis, Hook. f. ; quite glabrous, radical leaves persistent 

 linear-lanceolate finely acuminate narrowed into a short petiole quite entire or 

 obscurely toothed, flowering stem sparingly dichotomously branched, branches 

 slender erect, heads numerous panicled | in. diam., peduncles slender, outer 

 invol. bracts very small, inner linear subacute, aohenes slender glabrous narrowed 

 upwards ribbed about equalling the brown rigid pappus. Hieracium silhetense, 

 DC. JProdr. vii. 218; Clarke Comp. Ind. in Journ. Linn. Sac. xiv. 411, 257. 

 Prenanthes POandoUeana, Wcdl. Cat. Z''2B0,in part. Oonyza foliolosa. Wall. Cat, 

 S281, in part. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 4-6000 ft., common. Biema and Tbnasseeim, Kwz. 



Perennial; rootstock stout, woody. Leaves 6-12 by ^-IJ in., very much narrowed 

 at both ends. Flowering stems often twice as long as the leaves, slender, with small 

 leaves at the forks. Heads yellow, panicled, peduncles with usually a small bract. 

 Achenes Jj in., pale brown ; pappus rather scanty. — A very anomalous plant, with the 

 habit, absence of stellate hairs, and the achenes of Crepis, but with the brittle brown 

 pappus of Hieracium. 



13. C< racemifera, Hook. f. ; perennial, glabrous or puberulous above, 

 stem strict simple or branches erect, leaves scattered petioled ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate sinuate-toothed, petiole winged, heads in imilateral racemes, achenes 

 much shorter than the pappus. Crepis, No. 6, Serb. Ind. Or. H. f. Sp T. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; towards the Tibetan frontier, alt. 8-14,000 ft., J. B. H. 



Stem 6-18 in., very slender, from a small perennial rootstock. Leaves few, 1-2J. 

 in., acute; membranous, lower and middle cauline long-petioled, petiole not aurieled at 

 the base, iipper sessile. Eaeemes strict, nearly leafless, with minute bracts at the base 

 of the peduncles, which are erect, curved at the top, and usually 1-2-bracteolate ; 

 heads campauulate, ^^ in. diam., horizontal or drooping; outer invol. bracts very 

 small, inner 6-10 linear acute glabrous, all green, blackish when dry; ligules yellow. 

 Achenes quite immature, apparently short and not beaked ; pappus not exceeding the 

 involucre, pale brown, brittle. — A very remarkable species, whose affinity is doubtful, 

 but I think very near H. silhetensis, though differing in habit and inflorescence. 



Sect. V. Glomeratae. Heads very numerous and densely crowded, 

 sessile or shortly peduncled on the dilated top of a simple villous club-shaped 

 stem. 



