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6en. Char. Capitula homogamous: corolla slender; throafe 

 ventricose: anthers ending in long appendices, with two ciliate 

 bristles at the hase : stigmas long, diverging, continuous with the 

 style: achaenia glahrous: pappus 1 -series, plumose. — Herbs with, 

 entire leaves : capitula usually corymbose : involucre nxany-series,; 

 receptacle fimbrillate or paleaceous : corolla purple or white, never 

 yellow. 



This genus ought not to have been separated from Saussurea, the 

 only difference being that the pappus is l-series. 



(1) A. cANDicANS. (Dec) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 540. 



Syn. Cnicus candicans. Wall. — Carduus heterowiallus, Don, 

 <prod.fi. Nep. p. 166. — CSrsium heteromallum, Spreng. Syst. III., 

 y. 372. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, branched, somewhat downy: leaves 

 covered below with pure white down, slightly glabrous above, lowest> 

 ones petioled, lyrate ; terminal lobe the largest, middle ones atten-- 

 uated into the petiole, ' sinuately pinnatifid, uppermost onps oblong, ^ 

 undivided, all more or less denticulate, unarmed : capitula long.; 

 peduncled, terminal : scales of the downy subglobose involucre 

 linear-acuminate, all nearly equal. 



Hurdwar. 



(2) A. cARTHAMOiDEs. (Ham.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 540. 



Syn. Cnicus carthamoides. Wall. Cat. No., 2896.— rSerratula 

 carthaipoides, Roxh: H. B. flor. Ind. III. p. 407. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, branched, somewhat downy : leaves a 

 little scabrous above, white-woolly below ; lowest ones petioled,^ 

 piunati-partite ; lobes sinuately toothed, middle ones sessile, pin- 

 natifid, uppermost ones few, narrow, sinuate or quite entire : capj^ 

 tula subcorymbose : scales of the almost glabrous involucre linear^ 

 imbricated, acuminated, somewhat pointed ; pappus very tender. 



Silhet. 



(3) A. RoYtEi, (Dee.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 538. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, simple, 1-headed, leafy, ho^ry'Villous : 

 leaves araneose, hoary-villous below, pinnatifid : lobes somewhat 

 triangular, mucronate ; lower ones directed downiyards and deeper, 

 radical ones petioled : cauline ones sessile, uppermost ones long- 

 acuminate, entire, those next to the capitulum bract-shaped ; capi^p 

 tula erect : involucral scales lanceolate-linear, acuminated, somewhM 

 yiyoT^s on the back : florets dark -purple, 



JSorth-West Provinces, 



