Artimisia. SYNGENESIA SUPERFLUA, 423. 
linear and others pinnatifid. Flowers solitary, peduncled, 
hemispheric, Hermaphrodite florets four-toothed ; the fe- 
male ones naked, 
A small, erect, ramous annual, of short duration, appear- 
ing in dried up rice fields about Calcutta during the mente 
of February and March. 
Root of many, small, simple fibres, Stem erect, towards 
the apex ramous, round, smooth, except for a few, soft, 
woolly fibres; the whole height from six to eight inches, 
Leaves alternate, pinnate, nearly as long as the stem of the 
_ plant. Leaflets alternate, linear, toothed, gashed or pin- 
natifid. loral leaves small and nearly simple. Flow-. 
ers terminal, hemispheric, solitary, peduncled, with ge- 
nerally a small leaf about the middle of the peduncle, 
in the flowering time erect, afterwards bent to one side, 
drooping. Calyx, exterior leaflets largest. Hermaphro- 
dite florets four-toothed, numerous in the centre; the fe- 
male ones naked and more numerous in the circumfer- 
ence, eceptacie, the seeds from the hermaphrodite florets 
leave hollow pits thereon, whereas those of the ome leave 
sub-columnar elevations, 
10. A, sternutatoria. R. ? rhe Pobasn 
Annual, procumbent, woolly. Leaves sessile, wedge- 
shaped, dentate, downy underneath. lowers axillary, 
sessile; hermaphrodite florets from ten to twelve, four- 
cleft ; the female ones numerous, three-toothed. Receptacle 
naked. 
Beng. Mechitta, also Nukh chiknee. 
Appears with other syngeneseous plants during the latter _ 
part of the cold season, on cultivated land. The whole plant 
does not cover more than about six or eight inches in diame- 
ter, and is the smallest of the genus I have yet met with in 
