Serratula, SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS. 405 
Beng. Teek-chana. 
Common on the higher, cultivated, and uncultivated lands 
of Bengal. Flowering time the cold season. The same plant 
is also common on the sand hills near the sea along the Coro- 
mandel coast. 
Root simple, biennial, if not perennial. Stems at the base 
stoloniferous, short, variously bent, dichotomous, smooth, ma- 
ny-flowered, Leaves mostly radical, and spreading flat on 
the ground, sub-sessile, pinnatifid, smooth ; from two to three 
inches long, Flowers pretty large, of a bright yellow. Calyx 
the exterior leaflets small as if a calycle. ; 
4. P. racemosa, Roxb. 
Annual, ramous. Leaves runcinate, stem-clasping, finely- 
toothed. Flowers racemed, and in fascicles. Peduncles, and 
‘ pedicels smooth. 
A native of the coast of Coromandel, w! ere it is found dur- 
ing the dry season, on road sides, and among rubbish. 
Leaves approximate, stem-clasping, the lower ones runci- 
nate, the superior ones cordate-sagi‘i>te, all are smooth, and 
finely prickle-toothed, size various, Racemes terminal, long, 
slender, jointed; joints remote, bracted, flower-bearing. 
Flowers small, yellow, place’ at the joints 0. the racemes 
only, Calyx calycledscyliadric, scales of the tube about 
eight, those round its base many, small, and extending half — 
way down the pedicels. Cattle are fond of it, and it is replete 
with the same kind of milky juice, common to these plants. 
, _ SERRATULA. Schreb. gen. N.1264. 
Receptacle naked. Calyx sub-cylindric, imbricated ; scales 
pointed, but not hooked nor spinous, Pappus hairy. 7 
1, S. anthelmintica. R 
Annual, Leaves broad-lanceolar, serrate. Flowers ter- 3 
minal, calyx squarrose, wl of ice saenele 4% 
