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dentia vel caule appressa, obtusissima, pauce calloso-denticulata, 
supra scabra, subtus appresse villosa. Capitula solitaria vel 
interdum 3 aggregata, breviter pedunculata, radiata, 11-12 poll. 
diametro; involucri bracteæ multiseriatæ, rigid, rubentes, plus 
minusve villosæ, interiores anguste lanceolate, acutæ, flores disci 
æquantes, exteriores breviores, latiores, obtuse: receptaculum 
leviter concavum, areolatum. Flores radii numerosi, biseriati, 
ut videtur albi; corolle anguste. lores disci numerosissimi, 
flavi; corolle cylindrice, tenuissime; anthere longe caudate. 
Achenia (matura non visa) tenuia, teretia, appresse parceque 
hirsuta, basi distincte annuloso-callosa; pappi sete circiter 15, 
corollam subæquantes, apice barbellatæ, cum seriei exteriore 
brevissima.— Shan hills at 5000 feet. 
Not closely allied to any species. 
Var. glabrescens, Coll. et Hemsl., differt fere omnino glabra 
vel cito glabrescens.—Shan hills plateau at 5000 feet; common 
on the grassy uplands. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XII. 
A. Inula crassifolia, Col. et Hemsl., var. villosa. 
B. Inula crassifolia, Coll. et Hemsl., var. glabrescens. Both natural size. 
Fig. 1, a disk-flower ; 2, anthers; 3, apex of style and stigma; 4, an immature 
achene; 5, a bristle of the pappus. All enlarged. 
Vicoa auriculata, Cass.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 297.—Meiktila. 
The Punjab to Ceylon and Burma. 
Anisopappus chinensis, Hook. et Arn.; Forbes § Hemsley in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxiii. p. 431.—Shan hills at 4000 to 5000 feet, 
Aplin and Collett. 
Eastern and Western tropical Africa and South-eastern 
China. 
Enhydra fluctuans, Lour.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 304.—Ye- 
methen, in the lake. 
India, Malaya, tropical Africa, and Eastern Australia. 
It is also recorded from China in the ‘ Flora of British India,’ 
but we have seen no specimen. 
