CARDUACEAE 1429 
74. WEDELIA Jacq. Perennial, caulescent, diffusely branching and 
creeping herbs. Leaves opposite: blades typically or predominantly of a 
cuneate type, coarsely few-toothed or -lobed. Heads hits peduncled, radiate. 
Involucre broad, somew ian foliaceous: bracts in 2 or 3 unequal series, the outer 
mostly longer than the r. Ray-flowers few: NER with broad yellow, 3- 
lobed ligules. Deom with a eylindrie-(unnelform throat longer than 
d turgid, tuberculate. Pappus a fim- 
bri crown, deciduous.—About 40 species, 
pes warm ed tropieal regions. 
1. W. trilobata (L.) A. Hitehe. Stem and 
branches creeping, fleshy: leaf- ps o 
or elliptic and cuneate at the 10 e 
long, coarsely few-toothed, or E ne 
or less olds s e se, or abru tly ar- 
rowed into t petiole-like base: outer 
bracts of ae ie elliptic to o ovate, lax: 
iens of the ray 2i i nh elliptic, 8- 
m. long: anthers about 2 . lo ong: achene of the ray obovoid, 4—4.5 m 
mus coarsely obeunt. zn of Bay Biseayne, Fla.—(W. I. yen —All ae 
TEMMODONTIA Cass. Perennial, caulescent, Helianthus-like herbs 
or partly woody plants. Leaves opposite: blades of a lanceolate or an 
ovate type, entire or shallowly toothed. Heads hos. peduneled, radiate. 
voluere rather broad, somewhat foliaceous: bracts in 3 or 4 unequal series, ihe 
outer mostly longer than the inner. Ray-flowers ee corolla with broad yellow, 
often 2-lobed ligules. Disk-corollas with a nearly cylindric throat much ha 
An- 
than the tube; lobes ovate-lanceolate. 
C Yo 
bracts of the Be pem elliptic to 
wly 
sagittate the base, with ovate ap- 
j : 
lanceolate, lax: Tigu pe of = ray narro 
pendages. Stigma viret tsar Achene 
0 ned, ed, 
elliptie: anther t 3 mm. long: achene of the ray elipti -cuneate, about 4 
of W. 
fthe ray flat thick-margin pu- 
bescent. as: a ee crown, persistent. 
: S 
mm. long, bo bent —Waste- Ecce Coastal Plain, Ala. Nat 
I.—Sum.-fall. 
——About 6 species, tropical American. 
calycina (L. C. Rich.) O. E. Schulz. 
Stem and branches erect, m ostly 2 m. tall or 
: le 
crenate-serrate, rough-pulescenf gradually 
narrowed or rounded base: outer 
76. PASCALIA Ortega. Perennial, eaulescent herbs. Leaves oppo- 
site: blades entire, toothed, or somewhat lobed. Heads erect, radiate. In- 
