440 POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, Verbesina. 
There is no other interior calyx than the obtuse, boat-like 
_ chaff of the receptacle ; their number is equal to that of the 
female florets which they embrace, they are covered on the 
outside with hairs,each ending in a green glutinous bulb, 
VERBESINA. Schreb. gen. N. 1317. 
Receptacle chaffy. Pappus awned, or none. Calyx sim- 
ple, or in a double order, : 
1. V. ealendulacea, Willd. iii, 2226. . 
Perennial, creeping. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, 
serrate. Peduncles very long, one-flowered. Calyx five- 
leaved. Female florets eleven. 
Beng. Bangra. 
Pee-cajoni. Rheed. Mal. x, t. 42. 
Caltha, &c, Burm. Zeyl. t. 22. f. 1. — 
Grows amongst bushes or wet lands near Calcutta. 
Flowering during the rains. 
Stems annual, creeping, or climbing ; branchlets sub-erect, 
round, somewhat scabrous, from one to pati feet long. Leaves 
opposite, sessile, broad-lanceolate, sometimes most slightly 
and remotely serrate, on both sides scattered. with short, stiff, 
white hairs issuing from dark green pits, from two to four 
| cca long. Pedenniee axillary, solitary, longer than the 
leaves, erect, round, a little hairy, one-flowered. Flowers 
_ pretty large, ofa bright yellow. Calyx five-leaved, Herma- 
phrodite florets from twenty to thirty, Female ones from ten 
to fifteen, with their apices three-toothed, Seeds angular, 
crowned with a variously divided coronet. Receptacles con- 
vex, chafty ; chaff lanceolate, 
The plant is void of smell, but has a slight ‘cates 
ceous taste, | 
2. ¥. biflora, Wild, iii, 2296, 
Exect, annual. Leaves opposite, stelle ovate-lanceolate 
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