Grangea. | LXXVII. composirz. (J.D. Hooker)  - 247 
9 , fertile, filiform, outermost 2-fid., inner 2-4-fid. ; disk-fl. 9, fertile, tube very 
slender; limb campanulate, 4-5-cleft. Involucre broadly campanulate ; bracts 
few-seriate, outer herbaceous ; receptacle convex or conic, naked. Anther- bases 
obtuse. Style-arms of & flattened, cuneate, obtuse or with triangular points. 
Achenes flattened or subterete ; pappus cupular.—Disrris. Species 3 or 4 tro- 
pical Asia and Africa. 
1. G. maderaspatana, Poir; DC. Prodr. v. 373; pubescent or villous, 
stems spreading from the root prostrate, leaves sinuately pinnatifid, heads 
solitary rarely 2-nate leaf-opposed shortly peduncled, pappus hairs connate into 
a cylindric fimbriate tube. Wight Ie. t. 1097; Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 124; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 37. Artemisia maderaspatana, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61.; Fil. 
Ind. iii. 412. Cotula maderaspatana, Willd. C. sphzranthus, Link Enum. ii. 
344. Grangea spheranthus, Koch in Bot. Zeit., i. 41. 
Throughout Inp1, from the Punjab eastwards and southwards.— DisrRrs. Tropical 
and subtropical Asia and Africa. 
A common weed, growing flat on the ground, forming patches 6-12 in. broad, and 
more, 
15. MYRIACTIS, Less. 
Erect annuals, Leaves alternate, toothed. Heads loosely panicled or solitary, 
homogamous, white with a yellow disk, rayed ; ray-fl. 2-20 -seriate, 9 , fertile, 
small, ligulate, ligules spreading or revolute; disk-H. U, fertile, tubular, 5-fid. 
Involucre hemispherie ; (eg: few-seriate, narrow, margins scarious; receptacle 
broad, convex, naked. -Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of Y narrow, flattened, 
tips lanceolate. Achenes compressed, margined ; pappus 0.---DISTRIB. Species 
1, or more, Asiatic and African. 
l. M. Wightii, DC. in Wight Contrib. 10; Prodr. v. 808; pubescent or 
villous, leaves ovate or lyrate distantly serrate, upper lanceolate sessile, heads 
long-peduncled, invol. bracts acute villous, achenes shortly beaked. Wight Ic. 
t. 1001; Clarke Comp. Ind. 38. M. javanica, DC. l c. ; Clarke l. c. 
NircnkmnY Mrs.; alt. 8000 ft. Cryton; central province, alt. 5-8000 ft. 
A weed 2-3 ft. high; stem rigid, branches divaricating. Leaves 1-4 in., petiole 
winged, upper auricled. Heads } in. diam., on long strict peduncles. 
Van. bellidioides; hirsute, 4-6 in. high, leaves radical rosulate obovate-spathulate 
quite entire obtuse, heads solitary on a scape-like stem.—Nilgherry Mts., Wight. 
9. M. nepalensis, Less. ; DC. Prodr. v. 308 ; glabrous villous or hispid, 
leaves ovate or lanceolate coarsely serrate, heads subpaniculate, invol. bracts 
acute at length reflexed, achenes mucronate at the top not beaked. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 38. M. Gmelini, DC. l. c. 309. M. oleosa and M. gracilis, Edgew. 
in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 65 and 66. M. carnosa, Wall. Cat. 3219. Botryadenia 
Gmelini, Fisch. $ Mey. Ind. Sem. ii. 30; Regel Sert. Petrop. t. 93. Lavenia 
dentata, Wall. Cat. 3216 A. 
TkxPERATE HiMALAYA; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft. Kuasa Mrs., 
alt. 4-6000 ft. —DısrrıB. Central Asia. 
A most variable weedy plant, of which I am quite unable to make satisfactory 
varieties; indeed, as Bentham suggests, it may be only a form of Wightüi. 
3. M. Wallichii, Less. ; DC. Le, 309 ; very slender, sparsely hairy, leaves 
elliptic-lanceolate unequally serrate, heads very small on slender pedicels. 
Lavenia dentata, Wall. Cat. 3216 B. 
Temperate HiMAraAYA; Simla, Thomson, Nat, Wallich. Dem, alt. 912,000 
ft. J. D. H. 
I can scarcely think this more than a slender small-headed form of M. nepalensis, 
but if more than one species is to be kept, this must be one of them. 
