Sclerocarpus.] xxv. composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) | 305 
strata, Linn. E. prostrata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 438. E. prostrata, undulata and 
parviflora, Wall. Cat. 3209, 3210, 3213. 
Throughout Ixp1A; ascending to 6000 ft. in the Himalaya and other mountains. 
Disrrm. Cosmopolitan in warm climates. 
An erect or diffuse branched, slender weed. Leaves 1-4 in. long, very variable in 
form and width. Heads 1-4 in. diam, 
55. SCLEROCARPUS, Jacq. 
Strigose or villous herbs. Leaves alternate or opposite. Heads terminal or 
in the forks, or leaf-opposed; heterogamous, rayed, yellow; ray-fl. neuter, 
l-seriate, ligule spreading ; disk-fl. 9, fertile, tubular, limb 3-5-fid. Znvolwcre 
‘campanulate; bracts few, 2-seriate, all or the tips herbaceous, outer spreading ; 
receptacle convex or conic; pales enfolding the base of the O fl. and finally 
hardening round the achenes. Anther-bases subentire. Style-arms of Y elon- 
gate, acute obtuse or subclavate. Achenes obovoid, subeompressed, glabrous, 
narrowed below, enclosed in the rugose often beaked pales; pappus O or a ring. 
—Distrris. Species about 11, tropical American, Asiatic and African. 
l. S. africanus, Jaco. Ic. Pl. Rar. 17, t. 176; annual, erect, hispidly 
hairy, leaves opposite petioled ovate acute serrate 3-5-nerved, heads peduncled 
or sessile, achenes glabrous. DC. Prodr. v. 566; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb, Fl. 129; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 154. 
Western Himataya; from Simla to Kumaon, Royle, Ee. ascending to 5500 ft. in 
fields. Punsan, Aitchison. Banna, Edgeworth. The Concan; Joneer and highest 
hills east of Bombay, Dalzell, &c. The Crrcars, Gibson.—DisrRrs. Tropical E. & W. 
Africa. 
An erect herb, 1-2 ft.; branches stiff, terete, opposite. Leaves 14-3 in., narrowed 
into the petiole. Heads 4-4 in diam. Pales enclosing the curved, gibbous, ribbed 
achenes, 
56. BLAINVILLEA, Cass. 
Scabrid or villous herbs. Leaves opposite, or the upper alternate, petioled, 
toothed. Heads small, subsessile or peduncled, terminal or axillary, hetero- 
gamous, radiate or subdisciform, yellow ; ray-fl. 9, 1-2-seriate, fertile; ligules 
small 2—3-toothed or 0; disk-fl. 2 , fertile, tubular, limb dilated 5-fid. Znvolucre 
broadly ovoid or subglobose; bracts few, outer herbaceous, inner passing into 
the rigidly membranous concave or folded scales of the small convex receptacle. 
Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of Y narrow, flattened, with acute or 
subobtuse appendages. Achenes truncate, of ray 3-quetrous or dorsally com- 
pressed, of the disk 3-4-angled or laterally compressed; pappus of 2-5 
unequal bristles, connate at the base.— DrsrRrB. Species about 10, all tropical. 
]. B. latifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 17; Prodr. v. 492; annual, 
hispidly hairy, leaves opposite or upper alternate petioled ovate crenate-serrate 
3-nerved, heads peduncled, invol. bracts oblong obtuse rigid, achenes of the ray 
cuneiform triquetrous curved. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 127; Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 135. B. rhomboidea, Cass.; DC. l.c. B. alba and hispida, Edgew. in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 70. Eclipta latifolia, Zinn. f. Verbesina dichotoma, 
Wall, Cat. 3204, A. in part, B. C. D. E. V. Lavenia, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 442. 
Western INDIA ; from the upper Gangetic plain westwards, ascending to 5000 ft. 
in Kumaon in fields. Banna, Edgeworth. The Deccan and OCxvrox.—Disrnis. 
Tropieal Asia, Africa, America and Australia. 
A weed, 1-2 ft., rigid; branches terete, lower opposite, upper alternate. Leaves 
2-4 in. long, base cuneate, Heads 4-} in. diam. ; ligules yellow or whitish. 
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