A406 SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS. Serratula, 
Vernonia anthelminiica. Willd. iii. 1634. 
Cottu-shiragom. Rheed, Mal. ii. t. 24. . 
Sans. Somraj. 
Beng. Somraj. 
Conyza anthelmintica, Linn. 
Teling. Shendoo-gella-kura. 
Is.a pretty large, erect, annual species, common on high 
dry uncultivated ground, and rubbish, It flowers during the 
cold season, 
Stem erect, branchy, round, clouded with elevated purple 
spots, slightly downy, from two to three feet high. Leaves 
scattered, petioled, broad-lanceolate, grossly serrate, slightly 
downy, running down to the insertion of the petioles, size very 
various. Flowers terminal, peduncled, Calyx ; leaflets une- 
qual, the exterior ones smal], subulate, diverging ; the inte- 
rior ones wedge-formed, Florets twenty or thirty, equal, all 
hermaphrodite. Tube curved ; segments of the border five, 
incurved. Style long, two-cleft. Seeds cylindric, crowned 
with hairs, or rather | hairy soft bristles. Receptacle naked. 
2. S. cinerea. Roxb. 
Erect, annual. Leaves alternate, ovate-cordate, crenate, 
rugose, Flowers terminal, somewhat fastigiate; pappus hairy. 
Conyza cinerea, Willd. iii. 1925, * 
_ Beng. Kookseem. 
_ This plant is one of the most common in every part of In- 
dee every soil and situation suits it, and it is in flower at all 
times of the year. 
Root ramous, annual. Stem erect, ramous, round, a little 
downy and finely furrowed. Leaves alternate, petioled, 
ovate, and ovate-cordate, crenate, rugose, often waved, some- 
what pubescent, decurrent to the base of the petioles, from 
one to three inches long. Flowers terminal, numerous, sub- 
fastigiate, small, purple coloured, Florets equal, all herma- 
phrodite. Calyx imbricate, with ‘narrow-lanceolate acute 
downy scales. Seeds cylindric, white, hairy ; pappus hairy. 
