Carthamus. SYNGENESIA AEQUALIS, 409 
- Cnicus lanatus, Willd, iii, 1617. 
A common annual, on cultivated spots in Bengal, during 
the cold season, — 
Root simple, crooked, annual, Stem erect, simple, or with 
a few spreading branches near the root, striated, round, 
clothed with a little wool, about two feet high. Leaves scat- 
tered, petioled, lyrate, or lanceolate-sinuate, with the margins 
much waved, toothed, the teeth armed with long sharp thorns, 
pale green on the upper side, covered with white wool on 
the under side, from three to six inches long. Flowers ter- 
minal, peduncled, large, pale, purple. Florets one hundred 
or more, Anthers half hid in the mouth of the tube. Stigma 
long, aboye the anthers; sides grooved ; apex emarginate. 
CYNARA. Schreb. gen. N. 1257. 
Calyx dilated, imbricated with fleshy, emarginate scales 
with an acumen. 
&, Scolymus. Willd, iii. 169}. 
Perennial, Leaves somewhat spiny, pinnatifid, Caly- 
cine scales ovate. 
Arab, Hirshuf. 
Hind, Kungin. pl oats 
Native place uncertain, Flowering time the cold season 
in the gardens of Hindoostan, 
CARTHAMUS. Schreb. gen. N, 1261. 
Calyx ovate, imbricated; scales thereof with foliaceous, 
sub-ovate apices. 
C, tinetorins, Willd. ui. 1706. 
Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves sein, broad-lanceolate, 
serrate-aculeate. 
Cnicus Indicus, Rumph. Amb. ¥. bi 79. 
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