334 LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Gynura, 
3. G. lycopersicifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 300; glabrous or hoary-pubes- 
cent, stem simple erect, leaves irregularly deeply laciniately pinnatifid or lyrate, 
base auricled, lobes or segments very various obtuse or acute entire or toothed, 
` invol. bracts glabrous, uekte deeply furrowed hispid. Clarke Comp. Ind. 172. 
Cacalia laciniata, Wall. Cat. 3153. O. pinnatifida, Pers. ; Herb. Wight. 
SovrHERN Marson; Dindygul hills and Courtallam, Heyne, Wight. CeyLoN, 
abundant up to 5000 ft., Walker, Thwaites, &c. 
Stem 6 in. to 2 ft., erect. Leaves 3-5 in.; terminal lobe ovate-oblong or subcor- 
date, or narrow and lobed; lateral spreading, sometimes reduced to auricles on the 
rachis or petiole, at others 1-2 in. long and spreading, sometimes hoary with white 
hispid pubescence; basal auricles large, small or 0. Heads 1-3 in. long, usually rather 
numerous and panicled,—I have seen no specimen of Clarke's var. B. Andersoni from 
Upper Birma, which is beyond British India. 
4. G. angulosa, DC. Prodr. vi. 298 ; robust, quite glabrous, corymbosely 
branched, leaves large sessile obovate oblanceolate or oblong acuminate irregu- 
larly toothed, base contracted simple or auricled, upper oblong sessile with broad 
auricled bases, heads many large, peduncles invol. bracts and achenes quite 
glabrous or papillose between the ribs. Clarke Comp. Ind. 170. G. simplex, 
Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. F1. 130. Cacalia angulosa, Wall. Cat. 3152, C. Cusimbua, 
Don Prodr. 179. Kleinia Cusimbua, Less. in Linnea, 1831, 133. Porophyllum 
Cusimbua, DC. Le v. 650. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; from Garwhal to Mishmi, alt. 4-7000 ft. Kmasra Mrs., 
alt. 4-6000 ft. Hills of the Concan and Deccan ; Jooner and Belgaum jungles, Stocks, 
Ritchie. Marrasan; hills near Moulmein, Parish. 
Stem 3-10 ft. and upwards, as thick as the little finger below. Leaves 6-12 in., 
the basal sometimes 2 ft. long. Heads 2-1 in.long.—Don describes the leaves as 
pubescent beneath, Lessing as glabrous, which they are in all specimens I have seen 
except in a young and a doubtful speeimen from Mishmi (Griffith), in which they are 
puberulous on both surfaces ; but as Griffith notes his plant to be subscandent, it may 
be a different species. The Sikkim people have a native name for this plant much re- 
sembling that which Don gives it of Cusimbua, and I have no hesitation in referring 
his plant to angulosa. In the Bombay Flora G. simplex is described as having a tall 
erect unbranched stem, but the specimens from the Conean are branched corymbosely 
above, as in the Nipal state. 
Van. petiolata; leaves elliptic-lanceolate less toothed distinctly petioled.—Sikkim 
and Khasia Mts. 
5. G. Pseudo-china, DC. Prodr. vi. 299; glabrous or pubescent, stem 
very short, leaves all subradical obovate narrowed into the petiole sinuate- or 
subpinnatifidly lobed, scapes long nearly leafless, heads few, invol. bracts and 
achenes glabrous or sparsely villous. G. sinuata, DC. l.e. 901; Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 173; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 194. G. nudicaulis, Arn. Pugill. 
33; DC. Le 801. Cacalia bicolor 8, Wall. Cat. 3148. O. sagittaria, Heyne in 
Wall. Cat. 3159. C. bulbosa, Lour. Fl. Coch, 485.— Dill. Hort. Eih, 345, 
t. 258, 
Mapras Prustpency (Dillenius); Courtallam, Wight, Sıxxım HiMALAYA, alt. 
2-4000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. Prev and Martanan, Kurz. CEYLON; at Galagama, 
alt. 3000 ft., Thwaites.—Distris. Java, China ? 
Root tuberous; stem very short. Leaves 2-7 in. long, very variable in form. 
Heads 33 in. long.— This I think must be the ** Pseudo-china " of Dillenius, of which 
that author gives an excellent figure from a plant cultivated in his garden at Eltham, 
and which he states was a native of the Madras Presidency. It may well be doubted 
if this is anything more than a state of a common Eastern plant represented by G. 
angulosa in the Himalaya, and nitida in the Deccan. Kurz remarks of it that when 
young it looks scapigerous and has smaller and simpler leaves, but that as the tuberous 
roots enlarge it grows more robust and large, and branches from the base, with leaves 
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