248 LXXVII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Rhynchospermum. 
16. RHYNCHOSPERMUM, Reinw. 
A slender puberulous herb with long spreading branches. Leaves alternate. 
Heads small, axillary and in spreading leafy panicles, heterogamous, rayed ; 
ray-tl. 2, 2-3-seriate, fertile, shortly ligulate, white; disk-fl. D, fertile, tube 
short, limb campanulate 4-5-cleft. -Involucre short; bracts in few series, 
lanceolate, margins scarious ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases obtuse or 2- 
lobed. Style-arms of D flattened ; tips short, broad, obtuse. -Achenes com- 
pressed, beaked, beak short in the disk, longer in the ray; pappus of 3-5 
caducous bristles or 0. 
1. R. verticillatum, Reinw. mss. ; Blume Bijd. 909: Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 39. Leptocoma racemosa, Less in DC. Prodr. v. 280. Lavenia rigida, 
Wall. Cat. 3215. Carpesium racemosum, Wall. Cat. 3201, in part. Zollingeria 
scandens, Schultz-Bip. in Flora, 1854, 275. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 5000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 6000 and 
Bhotan. Kuasta Mrs., alt, 5000 ft. Brnwa.— DrisTRIm. Malay Isld., Japan. 
Stems 2-3 ft., branches very slender. Leaves 1-3 in., membranous, petioled, lan- 
ceolate, aeuminate, entire or coarsely toothed, narrowed into a ver slender petiole, 
Heads 8 in. diam., on short, rigid, stout, axillary often bracteate Hes Fre d often one 
in every axil along the branches. 
17. LAGENOPHORA, Cass. 
Scapigerous herbs. Heads small, solitary, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-fl. 9, 
1-3-seriate, fertile; ligule white, long or short ; disk-fl. D , often sterile, tubular, 
limb 5-eleft. Involucre short; bracts sub- 2-seriate ; receptacle convex, naked. 
Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of Y narrow, flattened, tips triangular 
or lanceolate. Achenes of ray compressed, beaked, margins thickened; of disk 
similar, often narrower and sterile; pappus 0.— DrsTRIB. Species 11-12 Aus- 
tralian, 1 Asiatic, 1 S. American, 1 Sandwich Isld. 
l. L. Billardieri, Cass.; DC. Prodr. v. 307; pubescent, leaves radical 
or subradical oblong or obovate sinuate-toothed pubescent, scape slender. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 173. L. sundana, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 32. L, Harveyi, Thwmites 
Enum. 162. 
Kuasta Mrs., alt. 5-6000 ft. CEYLON, central province, alt. 4-6000 ft.—DIsTRIB. 
Malay Islds. China. Australia, 
Rootstock with thick fibres. Leaves 1-2 in. Scape 3-4 in., slender. Heads } in. 
diam. ; invol. bracts linear; ligules white, short. Achenes obovoid oblong, beak 
glandular.—I follow Bentham and Clarke in reducing the Indian species to the Aus- 
tralian, though differing greatly in the size of the head. 
18. BRACHYCOME, Cass. 
Branched or scapigerous herbs, with the character of Lagenophora, except 
that the ray-flowers are 1-seriate, and that there is sometimes a scanty paleaceous 
pappus.—Disrrip. About 40 species, Australian and New Zealand, with one S, 
African. 
1. B?. assamica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 40; glabrous, almost shrubby, 
branches T angled, leaves alternate sessile linear dilated upwards, heads 
small terminal solitary, invol. bracts elliptic or ovate margins scarious, achenes 
terete striate narrowed above and beaked, pappus 0. ?Synanthera, Wall. Cat. 
7134. ? Epaltes linearifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 461. Ethulia divaricata, Wall. Cat. 
98, er DC. 
Upper Assam ; in the Dihong river, on stones, 
