274 LXXVIII. COMPOSITA. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Epaltes. 
90. EPA LTES, Cass. 
Herbs. Leaves alternate, usually decurrent. Heads small, solitary or 
corymbose, heterogamous, disciform; outer fl. oo-seriate, 9, fertile, corolla 
much shorter than the style, filiform, 2—3-toothed; disk-fl. C, usually sterile, 
tubular, limb 3-5-fid. Involucre broad ; bracts oo -seriate, dry, rigid ; receptacle 
flat or convex or raised, naked. -Anther-bases sagittate, auricles minute, con- 
nate; tails small. Style of D subulate, entire or 2-fid. Achenes of 9 
subterete, 5-10-ribbed, pappus 0; of 5 usually abortive, pappus-hairs 2-83, 
caducous or 0.—DIsTRIB. Species 9, Tropical Asiatic, African, and American. 
l. E. divaricata, Cass.; DC. in Wight Contrib. 16; Prodr. v. 461 ; heads 
i-j in. diam. subsolitary globose, invol. bracts finely acuminate inner longer 
than the flowers. Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 126; Clarke Comp. Ind. 96 (excl. 
syn. E. pygmea); Wall. Cat. 2988. E. linearifolia, DC. Le Ethulia divari- 
cata, Linn. ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 170, t. 58, f. 1. 
Western PENINSULA ; watery places from the Concan southwards. BIRMA, at 
Prome, Wallich. Cryton, abundant.—Disrris. Java, China. 
Glabrous, annual, 4-8 in. high, branched from the base; branches divaricate, 
winged. Leaves 1-24 in., linear, linear-oblong or lanceolate, narrowed at the base, 
toothed or entire, decurrent. Heads on winged peduncles, when ripe dull purplish, 
with the invol. bracts almost pungent. Achenes A, in., pale, obovate-oblong. 
2. E. pygmea, DC. Prodr. v. 461; heads } in. diam., invol. bracts 
broad obtuse or acute shorter than the flowers. 
The Carnatic, Belanger, Wight. 
This oceurs in Wight's Herbarium mixed with E. divaricata, from which it widely 
differs in the smaller size, the shape and size of the heads of the invol. bracts, and 
more still in the achenes, which are not half the size (about 3, in.) more oblong, 
black and obscurely ribbed, There is a fragment of this in Wallich’s Herbarium, 
collected by Rottler, and mixed with E. divaricata. 
31. SPHIERANTIHUS, Linn. 
Low annuals with spreading branches. Leaves alternate, toothed, decurrent. 
Heads small, in terminal solitary globose clusters, which are usually involucrate 
by a few empty bracts, sessile on a common receptacle and bracteate or not, 
heterogamous, disciform; outer fl. 9, few or many, fertile, slender, minutely 
2-9-toothed ; disk-fl. D, solitary or few, fertile or sterile, tube thickened, limb 
4—5-toothed. Involucre narrow ` bracts narrow, acute, dry, unequal ; receptacle 
small, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles acute or tailed. Style-arms of D 
filiform or connate. Achenes oblong, subcompressed; pappus 0.—DISTRIB. 
Species 8, Tropical Asiatic, African and Australian. 
1. S. amaranthoides, Burm.; DC. Prodr. v. 370; erect, glabrous, 
branches not winged, leaves linear-oblong narrowed at the base decurrent obtuse 
serrulate, clusters of heads subsessile ovoid glabrous, bracts imbricating spines- 
cent. Clarke Comp. Ind. 96. X. zeylanicus, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 3180 A.B. 
Oligolepis amaranthoides, Wight in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. 161; Ic. t. 
1149. 
SourüERN Mysore and TmnAvANCORE; in rice fields, Wight, Cxyton, not un- 
common. 
Stem sometimes as thick as the little finger, but short, branches 8-12 in. Leaves 
2-4in. Heads 3-1 in, 
