Dipsacn,. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA ^. 4867 
DIPSACUS. 
Common calyx many-leaved ; proper supérior, single. — Recepid- 
cle chaffy. : 
1. D. inermis. Wall. 
Leaves oblong, serrate, villous, petioled, sub- lobate ; cauline cons : 
nate; Acads globular, villous; chaff cuneate, subulate- acuminate, 
scarcely longer than the tube of the corolla. - 
DB? with all the leaves pinnatifid-lobate. 
Grows wild at Katmanda and Gossain Than, frotü whence 
Mr. Gardner has sept me specimens and seeds. Dr. Gowan has 
likewise found it to the Northward of Saharunpore. Blossoms dur- 
ing the rainy season. 
Nepala name, Barberi and Goja. 
Root strong, fibrous, ash-coloured.—Stem erect, slender, fistu. 
lous, four or more feet high, many-sided, brachiate, the lower half 
densely clad with reflexed soft hairs, the upper sparingly beset witlr 
inoffensive bristles, chiéfly along its ribbed corters. Leaves une- 
qually and doubly serrated, soft and villous on both sides, with a 
few scattered bristles ; radical about a foot long, three inches broad, 
acute, tapering much downwards and sub- Leet on their equal+ 
ly long slendér petiol ; sometimes with a deep lobe on one or both 
sides of their base ; ; those of the stem consisting of two or three 
remote pairs, five or six inches long, acuminate, undivided, generally 
more bristly than the others, connate at their base and forming 
there a short cup.— Peduncles very lon, and slender, few, erect, 
Mostly with a pair of narrow short leaves at their middle.—Heads 
Rearly round, obtuse, an inch in diameter; involucre consisting of six 
9r eight linear channelled recurved ciliate leaves, an inch long.— Re~ 
€ptacie ovate, marked with square impressions for the i insertion of 
the flowers, beset with membranaceous pale, hairy, € "un eate à 
Spreading scales, with a rounded apex ending in a ‘straight liste 
Purple-coloured lanceolate acute point, which is as long as the lz- 
Mina itself. Corolla yellowish. white, pubescent, with four aluiost 
