306 LXXVIII. composir#. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Wedelia. 
57. WEDELIA, Jacq. 
Scabrid pubescent or hirsute herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. 
Heads axillary or terminal, heterogamous, radiate, yellow; ray-fl. 9, fertile, 
ligule spreading entire or 2-toothed ; disk-fl. D, fertile or the central sterile, 
tubular, limb elongate 5-toothed. ^ Inmvol. bracts sub-2-seriate, outer 3-5 
usually herbaceous or foliaceous, inner dry; receptacle flat or convex, pales 
enclosing the flowers. Anther-bases entire or subsagittate. Style-arms of Y 
with acute hairy tips. Achenes cuneate-oblong or obovoid, thick, smooth or 
tubercled, laterally compressed or the outer triquetrous, tip rounded, margins 
obtuse or thickened ; pappus 0, or a toothed cup or ring, or of short scales, 
with sometimes a few bristles.—DrsTRIB. Species about 45, tropical and sub- 
tropical. 
l. W. calendulacea, Less. ; DC. in Wight Contrib. 17 ; Prodr. v. 539; 
procumbent, strigillose or glabrate, leaves subsessile linear-oblong or oblanceolate 
acute or obtuse entire or sub-crenate scaberulous above 1- rarely 3-nerved, heads 
solitary on long slender axillary peduncles, outer invol. bracts large oblong 
obtuse herbaceous much longer than the disk-fl., achenes of the ray 3-quetrous 
tip truncate. Wight Ic. t. 1107 ; Arn. in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. i. 81, t. 5; 
Clarke Comp. Ind, 136; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 129. W. bengalensis ?, Rich. 
tn Pers. Synops. ii. 490. Verbesina calendulacea, Linn. ; Roxb. FI. Ind. iii. 440 ; 
Wall. Cat. 3205. Joegeria calendulacea, Spreng. Syst. iii. 590.—Burm. Fl. 
Zeyl. 52, t. 22, f. 1. 
In wet places, BENGAL, Assam, SILHET, the EASTERN and WESTERN PENINSULAS 
and Cryton.—Disrris. Malay Islds., China, Japan. 
Stem 6-18 in., rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous or seabrid. Leaves 1-3 in., 
variable in breadth, hairs on both sufaces scattered, appressed, rigid, white. Heads 
1-13 in. diam ; peduncles 1-6 in., swollen below the turbinate involucre. 
2. W. urticefolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 18; Prodr. v. 539 var. B 
only ; erect, slender, hispid or scabrid, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate 
3-nerved, heads 1-3 peduncled, invol. bracts ovate-lanceolate acuminate exceed- 
ing the disk-fl., achenes elongate-cuneate 3-quetrous tip broad truncate, Wight 
lc. t. 1106. Woollastonia biflora, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 198, excl. syn. 
Verbesina biflora, Wall. Cat. 3207 B., in part. 
Western PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from the Concan south wards. 
Stem and branches weak, pale, grooved. Leaves 3.5 in., petiole short or Jong, 
slender. Heads {-1 in. diam.; invol. bracts seabrid. Pappus usually 0, rarely of 
1-2 bristles. 
3. W. biflora, DC. in Wight Contrib. 18; climbing, glabrous or scaberu- 
lous, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate, heads 1-3 peduncled, invol. bracts 
oblong or ovate-lanceolate often recurved equalling or exceeding the disk, 
achenes shortly cuneate 3-4-angled rough tip broad truncate. W, scandens, 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 136, excl. syn. ? W. biflora, Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, 
ii. 176. Woollastonia biflora and scabriuscula, DC. Prodr. v. 546, 547. W. 
biflora, Wt. Ic. t. 1108. Verbesina biflora, Linn.; Wall. Cat. 3207 A., in part, 
F. V. dichotoma, Wall. Cat. 3024 A., partly F. H. Eclipta scabriuscula, 
Wall. Cat. 3212, chiefly. Acmella biflora, Spreng. Syst. iii. 591.—Rheede Hort. 
Mal. x. t. 40. 
Near the sea from Bencar and Bowsav to CEYLON and SINGAPORE. — DISTRIB. 
Tropical shores of Eastern Asia. 
Very like W. urticæfolia, but less hispid, climbing, and with much shorter broader 
achenes. 
