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It. TtosACEJE. (J. D. Hooter.) 



[^Agrimomu. 





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3. A. zeylanica, Moon Cat 37 ; villous with long spreading hairs, leaf- 

 lets nearly orhicular coarsely ohtiisely toothed, lower bracts broad leafy, calyx- 

 tube villous deeply grooved, spines spreading. A. Eupatorium, Thwaites Enunu 

 102 ; Wtffht Ic. t. 224. 



Ceylon, central province, at an elevation of 5-7000 ft. 



I keep up this species with great hesitation, suspecting it to be only a tropical 

 form of A. Eupatoriu?7i, and there being approaches to it amongst the Sikkim and Khasia 

 specimens of that plant ; it is however far more unlike than these to any European 

 form in the villous pubescence, short leaves and rounded leaflets. It is further re- 

 markable that neither this nor any other AgATnonia should be found in theWestem 

 Peninsular mountains of the Indian continent. 



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15. FOTERZUM, Linn. 



Erect perennial herbs. Leaves pinnate ; leaflets stalked ; stipules adnate to 

 the sheathing petiole. Flowers small, subsessile, in dense long-peduncled heads 

 or centrifugal spikes, bracteate, 2-bracteolate, often polygamous. Calyx4vm 

 persistent, turbinate, mouth contracted \ lobes 4, pet^loid, deciduous, imbncate. 

 Petals 0. Stamens 4 or more, inserted at the mouth of the calyx, fil^"^^°|7 

 slender pendulous. Disk lining the calyx-tube and closing its mouth. Carpe 

 1-3, enclosed in the calyx-tube ; styles filiform, stigma penicillate ; ovule h j 

 pendulous. Achenes solitary, enclosed in the hardened 4-angled often winged o 

 muricate calyx-tube. — Disxrib. N. temp, regions ; species 20. 



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Carpels solitary. 



fillforme, ffoohf. ; glabrous, very small and slender, leaflets sessile 



ovate-orbicular or -cuneate deeply toothed, peduncle subradical very long 



slender, heads globose white, stamens 6, 



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biKKiM Himalaya ; m marshy ground. Lachen valleys, alt. 11,500 It., 

 A small and very delicate plant quite unlike its congeners in habit ; the stems ^^ 

 ing short and the heads on very long 6-8 in. filiform peduncles, each with a inin^ 

 reduced leaf and bud about the middle. SteTns tufted, ascending. Leaves 1-^ ^ •* 

 leaflets 3-5 pair, J in. broad. Heads ^-1 in. diam., quite white ; bracts orbicular 

 oblong, membranous, glabrous; flowers monoecious. Calt/x-tube ellij^soid, l^tyie 

 riender, stigma capitate. 



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-yo^"^ 2. P. diandrum, Wall. Cat. 710 (Sangmsorba) ; tall, quite glaT^ 

 leaflets petiolulate oblong-cordate crenate-toothed, heads globose, stamens ^ 



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oblong deeply 4- winged. 



Temperate Central and Eastern Himalaya; Nipax, WailicK SixkiM, 

 10-13,000 ft, J. D,K 



5^P7?i erect, 2-3 ft., branched above. Leave^^-lO in.; leaflets ^-1 i^-^ ^^^^^jjie, 

 or alternate, membranous, often complicate wh* dry, crenatures or '^^^ , ^^^^gQles 

 acute or obtuse. Heads ^-J in. diam., on slender erect axillary peduncles ; ^^^^^^^^le 

 oblong, fimbriate. Flowers dark-purple, hermaphrodite (polygamous?). ^^I^&^or^^ 

 ellipsoid, 4-gonous, glabrous ; segments orbicular, concave, 3 -nerved, jf^^ J^late 

 Btigma large plumose. SV"«^ T^an/i«irM>e i ;« \rx-nrr cTn^rtfli 'hAt-ween the uD^ 



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Fruit pendulous, i in. long, smooth between 



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3. P. Indlcum, Gardn. in Calc. Joum. Nat. Hist. viii. 10 ; taU, oi^^ __ 

 stem and petioles clothed with ruaty hairs, leaflets petiolulate orbicular or 

 date-ovate with few large teeth, heads globose, fruit trapezoid. A'^,^,^: 



heads glo'bose, fruit trapezoid. 



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