398 Lxxviii. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Gre^is 



14. C. g'lomerata, Dcjie. in Jacq. Voy. JBot. 09, 1. 107 (Prenantlies),»ioi 

 of Clarke ; pubescent or villous, stem short soft simple clavate leafy, leaves obo- 

 vate or linear-oHong entire sinuate-toothed or pinnatifld, heads cylindric, outer 

 invol. bracts or 1-2 filiform, inner 3-6 linear- or broadly oblong obtuse, achenes 

 cylindric-oblong obscm-ely constricted below the shining vyhite reddigh or blue- 

 grey rigid pappus. 0. Hookeriana, Clarke Comp. Ind. 255. 



■Western TissHtJacguemont; Lahul, Captain Hay; Barji-kang (N. of Kumaon), 

 alt. 14,000 ft., Strach. §■ Winterb. Sikkim ; common near the Tibetan passes, alt. 

 13-17,000 ft., J. B. H. 



Stem 1-6 in., densely or laxly villous, tapering into a fusiform root a foot long, 

 soft, often lJ-2 in. diam. at the truncate top. Leaves very variable, 1-5 by ^-§ in., 

 flaccid. Heads 50-100, forming a dense hemispheric mass mixed with filiform bracts 

 which arise from the base of the very short peduncle, few-fld. ; invol. bracts \-^ in., 

 variable in breadth, glabrous or villous, margins membranous; ligules yellow. 

 Achenes ^ in., many-ribbed, shining, brown ; pappus J in. long, deciduous, hairs very 

 variable in colour. — This is a very singular plant, the analogue of Saussnred gossypi- 

 phora, which it entirely resembles in habit. 



DOUETFDL SPECIES. 



Cbepis poEEirOLU, Son Prodr. 164; Barkhausia porrifolia, DC. Prodr. vii. 157 ; 

 and Bakkhahsia Eotlei, DC. I. c, are very doubtful plants (see under Pta-oiheca, 

 Falconeri and Crepis StoUczkai). 



109. PKSiCASXUia, Cass. 



Annual or perennial erect hispid herbs. JRadical leaves lyi'ate. Heads small , 

 yellow, homogamous; fl. all ligulate. Involua-e cjdindric, calyciilate, bracts 

 1-seriate, fruiting with the midrib thickened below; receptacle flat, naked. 

 Achenes terete with a broad base, finely striate,'narrowed at the tip or beaked ; 

 pappus copious, deciduous, or of the outer achenes scanty. — Disieib. Species 2 

 or 3, European and Oriental. 



1. P. lampsanoides, Cass, in Diet. Sc. Nat. xxxix. 387 ; annual, hispid 

 or glabrate, leaves rosulate runcinate-pinnatifid, cauline few, base simple or 

 sagittate, fiowering stem corymbosely or paniculately branched, heads ^ in. long, 

 invol. bracts narrowly lanceolate glabrous fruiting rigid, achenes very slender 

 curved subterete pale smooth rather larger than the very soft white pappus. P. 

 pulchrum, Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. t. 1431. Orepis pulchra, I4nn. ; DC. Prodr. 

 vii. 160 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 846. 0. youngiformis, Koch in lAnncea, xxiii. 

 690. ChondriUa pulchra, Lamk. Encycl. ii. 77. Touugia Kochiana, Ledeb. FL 

 Ross. ii. 837. 



Westben Himalaya ; Kashmir to Lahul, alt. 7-8000 ft., Clarke, Watt. — Distkib. 

 "Westwards to the Atlantic. 



Stem 1 or many from the root, 12-18 in. high. Leaves very variable. Heads on 

 slender divaricating peduncles ; fruiting invol. bracts pale, incurved. Achenes 1 in. 

 long. — This genus woidd be better reunited with Crepis as a section. 



110. PTXSXtOTKECA, Cass. 



Annual subscapigerous hispid or glabrous herbs. Leaves all radical, toothed 

 or sinuate-pinnatifid. Heads subcorymbose, homogamous, yellow or red, all 

 ligulate. InvdvjCre tubular-campanulate ; inner bracts 1-2-seriate, equal, nar- 

 row, herbaceous, at length concave with the keel thickened, outer few small ; 

 receptacle with long hairs or bristles. Antlier-base^ sagittate, auricles acute or 

 setaceous. Style-arms slender. Achenes slender, all subterete or the outer com- 

 pressed, 8-10-ribbed, narrowed at both ends, glabrous, strongly 3-ribbed or 



