310 LXXVIII. coMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Bidens. 
chinensis, Wall, Cat. 3189, D. E. F. B. Wallichii, DC. Prodr. v. 598; Dalz. § Gibs. 
Bomb. Fl. 129. 
Var. 3. decomposita ` leaves decompoundly pinnatifid, segments linear slender. 
B. decomposita, Wall, in DC. Prodr. v. 602; Cat. 3188; Clarke Comp. Ind. 141 
excl. var. p. 
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EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
B. nEcowrosrrA, var. B hirsutior, Clarke (Comp. Ind. 141), from 7500 ft. in the 
Nilgherry Mts. I have seen no specimen of this, which Clarke informs me he now 
supposes to be some eultivated plant. 
B. catva, Clarke l. c. (Adenolepis calva, Schultz-Bip. in Herd, Hohenaek. n. 344) is 
Cosmos sulphureus, Cay., a cultivated plant. 
61. GLOSSOGYNE, . 
Perennial glabrous herbs, with almost naked stems and branches, Leaves 
radical, crowded, pinnatitid or cuneate and 3-toothed, cauline alternate or the 
lower opposite, or 0. Meads small, few, corymbose, heterogamous and rayed, or 
homogamous and disciform; ray-fl. 9, fertile, ligules spreading yellow (or 
white?); disk-fl. 5, fertile, tubular, limb 5-fid. —Znrolucre small; bracts 2-3- 
seriate, narrow, bases connate; receptacle flat ; pales scarious, flat or concave. 
Anther-bases obtuse. — Style-arms of Y with long hairy tips. Achenes dorsally 
compressed, linear, ovoid or almost winged, glabrous, truncate ; pappus of 2 
retrosely scabrid bristles.— DtsrRrB. Species 5, tropical Asiatic and Australian. 
l. G. pinnatifida, DC. in Wight Contrib. 19; Prodr. v. 632 ; branches 
slender forked, leaves mostly radical pinnatifid triangular in outline, segments 
linear acute. Dalz. A Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 129; Clarke Comp. Ind. 141. B. 
rigida, Hort. Cale. Zinnia Bidens, Retz Obs. v. 28; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 435. 
Bidens pinnatifida, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 3190. 
Plains of Western Inpia; from Jamu and Garwhal to Western Bengal and 
Behar, and southwards to Madras. 
foot fusiform, woody. Leaves with the petiole 1-2 in.; segments few, often 
recurved, acute, coriaceous. Flowering branches 6-12 in., strict, stiff, grooved, nearly 
leafless. Heads in flower } in. diam. ; invol. bracts linear, obtuse, è in. long. Achenes 
4-4 in., deeply grooved, black. 
62. CHRYSANTHELLUM, Rich. 
Annual glabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatitid, or radical toothed. 
Heads small, peduncled, terminal and axillary, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-fl. 9, 
1-seriate, fertile, ligule spreading entire or 2-tcothed yellow; disk-fl. 6 fertile, 
tube short, limb campanulate 5-fid. — Znvolucre hemispheric ; bracts 1-2-seriate ; 
receptacle flat ; ER narrow, flat, scarious. Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style- 
arms of % slender, tips long subulate. Achenes linear-oblong, dorsally com- 
pressed, smooth, or the outer tubercled externally, outer thick with obtuse 
margins, inner flat 2-winged ; pappus a minute corona.—Disrris. Species 2 or 
3, tropical Asia, Africa and America. 
l. C. indicum, DC. Prodr. v. 631; achenes all cuneate-oblong obeom- 
ressed grooved smooth margins very thick not winged. Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 
89; Clarke Comp. Ind. 142, excl. syn. Bidens? Bandanna, Wall. Cat. 3291. 
Hinterpubera Kotschyi, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Schimper, n. 1630, 
Upper Ganertic plains, Royle, Thomson. Kumaon and Garwnat, at Hawalbagh 
and Nynee-tal, alt. 4000 ft., Madden, &e. Nacroru, Munro.— DisrRIB. Madagascar, 
Tropical Africa. 
Branches spreading from the root, procumbent, diffuse, leafy. Leaves succulent, 
1-8 in, long, deltoid in outline, 2-pinnatifid; segments oblong or cuneiform, obtusely 
