Zinnia, POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, 435 
2. T. erecta. Willd. ‘i, 2127. 
_ Annual, erect, ramous, eaves lanceolate, eiliite-serdilte. 
Peduncles naked, one-flowered. 
Beng. Genda. 
If originally from Mexico, like Tobacco, they have now 
become denizens of the East, and considered as indigenous, 
particularly in Persia and China, They blossom during the 
coolest season in the Botanic garden at Calcutta. 
ZINNIA. Schreb. gen. N. 1304. 
Receptacle chatty. Pappus of two straight awns, Calyx 
sub-ovate, imbricate. islet 
Z. bidens. Retz. Obs. v. 28. 
Leaves pimnatifid. Flowers peduncled, hermaphrodite; 
florets four-cleft. 
Is a rare plant on the coast of Coromandel, I have only 
found it amongst the Circar mountains during the rainy sea- 
son, when it flowers. zi ‘ ; 
Root woody, perennial. Stem erect, frequently ramous, 
and from six to eighteen inches high, Leaves radical, many, 
petioled, pinnatifid, smooth ; divisions linear, those of the stem 
sub-sessile, otherwise they are like those of the root. Flowers 
a few, terminal, peduncled, small, yellow. Calyx simple, 
from eight to ten-leaved. Hermaphrodite floreis of the disk 
_ from seven to twelve, four-cleft. Female florets of the ray 
from five to ten. Stamens four. Seeds, those of the ray short- 
est, all compressed, striated, and two-horned ; horns straight, 
divaricate, acute, armed with short, stiff biirs pointing back- 
wards, by these they adhere en to ———— touches 
them. 
_ Note. Willdenow has on some hbiadieaial shietale 
gdotd Retzius’s Z, bidens, which I know to be this pon 
+3 C2: 
as I was with ore) when he first diccqrertt and described 
