482 aOMF OSIT^. [S auss <jbe4 - 



42. SAUSSUREA, DC. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 365. 



Annual biennial or perennial, glabrous or tomentose herbs of 

 rarions habit. Leaves unarmed, alternate, entire toothed pinnatifid 

 or pinnatisect. Seads narrow or broad, sometimes crowded on the 

 dilated top of a simple stem, peduncled or sessile, solitary corymbose- 

 or panicled, homogamous. Flowers purple or bluish, all 2-sexual 

 and similar, tube slender ; linab narrow, 5-fid. Involucre ovoid- 

 oblong globose or hemispTieric ; bracts many-seriate, appressed, not' 

 spinescent, inner longer, narrower. Beceptacle flat or convex, densely 

 bristly, rarely naked. Filaments free, glabrous ; anther-bases 

 sagittate, auricles connate ; tails usually long, entire, ciliate or woolly.^ 

 Style-arms linear. Achenes glabrous, oblong, 4-ribbed, smooth or 

 rugose ; top* truncate and cupular, or crowned with a thickened disk 

 and the persistent base of the style ; basal areole straight. Pappus- 

 hairs 1-2-seriate, inner feathery, base thickened and connate into a^ 

 deciduous ring, outer usually of rigid scabrid bristles, rarely feathery 

 or 0. — Species about 100 ; chiefly in N. temperate regions, and on. 

 mountains in the tropics. 



Heads broad, leaves lyrate -pinnatifid. 



Outer invol-braets obtuse ; achenes 

 smooth, 10-ribbed . . . . 1. 8. affinis. 



Invol-braets all lanceolate-acuminate ; 



achenes muricate, 5-angled . . 2. 8. candicans.^ 



Heads narrow, leaves entire or subpinnatifid . 3. 8. albescens. 



1. S. affinis, Spreng. eso DC. Prod, vi, 540; F. B. I. iii, 373, Serratula 

 carthamoides, Boxb.; Fl. Ind. iii, 407. 



Annual. Stem 2-8 ft. high and often very thick, grooved, glabrous or 

 nearly so. Leaves lyrate- pinnatifid, white-cottony beneath ; radical 

 petioled, 4-8 in. long, membranous, glabrous or puberulous above ; 

 cauline sessile, uppermost sinuate-lobed or entire. Beads broad, on 

 long grooved peduncles, arranged in large open panicled corymbs, 

 1 in. in diam. Invol-hracts glabrate, 5-nerved ; outer ovate, obtuse or 

 acute ; inner lanceolate, acuminate, often tinged with purple. Corolla 

 i in. long, very slender, pale-red. Anther-tails short, fimbriate. 

 Achenes -jL in. obovnid, smooth, 10-ribbed, tip contracted. Pappus- 

 hairs | in., very slender, white, outer 0. 



Gorakbpur District (Duthie's collector). Flowers Feb. to May. 

 DisTBiB. Bengal from Sylhet to the foot of the Nepal Hills ; also in 

 Burma, China, Japan and E. Australia. - 



