298 LXXVIII, compositm. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pulicaria.. 
form and homogamous, yellow; ray fl. 2, 1-2-seriate, ligules narrow, or minute 
or 0; disk fl. §, fertile, slender; limb elongate, shortly 5-fid. Involucre hemi- 
spheric or obconic ; bracts in few series, narrow, acuminate or awned ; receptacle 
at or subconvex, pitted. Anther-bases sagittate; tails capillary, simple or 
branched. Style-arms of 9 linear, obtuse. -Achenes terete or ribbed; pappus 
double, outer of short jagged teeth, inner of smooth scabrid or bearded filiform 
or flattened hairs.—DrsrRIB. Species about 24, European, Asiatic, and African, 
Secr. I. Eupulicaria. Invol. bracts slender. Pappus double; outer of 
a crown of short scales, inner of slender hairs. 
l. P. vulgaris, Gaertn. ; Boiss, Fl. Orient. ii. 204; annual, pubescent 
or softly tomentose, leaves sessile oblong-lanceolate from a j-amplexicaul base, 
lower petioled, heads on short stout peduncles, invol. bracts subulate, ligules 
erect very short, pappus dirty white twice as long as the silky achenes, outer 
scales lanceolate serrate free, DC. Prodr. v. 478; Clarke Comp. Ind. 128. 
Inula Pulicaria, Linn. 
Kasnwrn, alt. 5-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson ; Peshawur, Jacquemont, Stewart.— 
Disrers, Central and N. Asia, Persia, and westwards to Algeria and Britain. 
Erect, 6-18 in. high, copiously dichotomously subeorymbosely branched above. 
Leaves 3-1 in. Heads 4-4 in, diam.; peduncles divaricate; invol. bracts very woolly 
in the Kashmir plant, erect or with subrecurved tips; ligules hardly exceeding the 
bracts. Achenes very minute; pappus 45 in. long. 
2. P. dysinterica, Gaertn. ; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 201 ; perennial, woolly 
or cottony, leaves j-amplexicaul oblong-cordate waved and toothed, heads 
densely woolly, invol. bracts setaceous, ligules many long, pappus dirty white 
four or five times as long as the silky achenes, outer scales lanceolate free, Inula 
dysinterica, Linn. 
Kasumir, alt. 5-6000 ft., Falconer, Thomson.—Distrie. Westwards to Algeria and 
Britain. 
A more robust plant than P, vulgaris, with ligules much exceeding the invol, 
bracts, and much longer and more copious pappus. 
3. P. foliolosa, DC. Prodr. v. 480; annual, pubescent or tomentose above, 
leaves sessile linear-oblong or -oblanceolate from a broad or contracted j-amplexi- 
caul base quite entire, tips apiculate recurved, heads woolly and glandular, invol. 
bracts almost setaceous, peduncles very slender, ligules 0, pappus hairs very few 
white twice as long as the minute hairy achenes, scales connate below. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 128. Blumea senecionidea, Edgew. Fl. Banda, 16. Conyza folio- 
losa, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3281. 
Upper and Lower Ganautic Prains; Oude, Sikkim, Terai, Maldah, and banks of 
the Ganges. CkwTRAL Lama ` Sangur and Jubbulpore. BANDA, Edgeworth. The 
Concan, Law, &c. 
Stem 1-2 ft., copiously branched. Leaves 1-6 in., lower dilated from the base 
upwards, almost glabrous. Heads scattered, smaller than in P. vulgaris or dysin- 
terica ` ray fl. tubular, 3-toothed. 
Secr. II. Poloa. Invol, bracts herbaceous or leafy. Pappus of sect. 
Eupulicaria. 
4. P. Wightiana, Clarke Comp. Ind. 118; annual, puberulous above, 
leaves sessile linear-oblong from a sub-auricled base obtuse entire or serrulate, 
heads solitary, peduncles stout strict, invol. bracts herbaceous lanceolate acute, 
ligules equalling the bracts, pappus at length reddish twice as long as the 
5 Zei achenes, outer scales united in a cup. P. hyderabadensis, DC. /. c. 480. 
