442 POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, Verbesina. 
and in various other parts of India, for the same purpose. In 
1800, the seeds were received into the Botanic garden from 
H, Colebrooke, Esq. the resident at the Court of the Berar 
Raja, and from Mr, Heyne at Bangalore. : 
The usual season for cultivating this plant, is during the 
cool months, between October and March. 
Stem annual, erect, round, harsh, with white, slender, 
curved bristles.. Branches opposite, expanding ; the height 
of the whole plant, in a good soil, about three feet; the parts 
exposed to the sun tinged with purple. Leaves opposite, 
stem-clasping, linear-lanceolate, with cordate, almost perfoli- 
ate bases, remotely serrate, somewhat harsh but not so much 
so as the stem and branches; from four to six inches long, 
and from one to two broad at the base. Peduncles terminal, 
generally two or three together, though: sometimes solitary, 
one-flowered, round, hairy ; from three to six inches long. 
Flowers large, beautiful, of a bright lively yellow, inodorous. 
Calyx, common, ‘simple, five-leaved ; leaflets ovate, villous. 
Hermaphrodite florets numerous in the centre, five-toothed. 
Female florets about eight or ten in the circumference, broad 
tongue-shaped, three-toothed. Seeds of both the hermaphro- 
dite and female florets smooth, dark, of a blackish brown 
colour,nearly four-sided, with the angles rounded and taper- 
ing to the base. Receptacle convex, chafly. Chaff concave, 
one to each floret embracing the exterior side of the seed. 
Reneg of the female florets larger. 
5. V. Lavenia. Fl. Zeyl, 310. 
Annual, erect, hairy. Leaves opposite, and alternate, pe- 
tioled, from cordate to oblong, three-nerved, serrate, hairy. 
Seeds of the disk two-horned, those of the ray three. 
Lavenia erecta, Willd, iii, 1724, 
Pu-tumba, Rheed. Mal. x. t. 63. a bad figure, and. that 
of Burman’s Zeyl. t. 42, is still worse. 
An annual, a native of dry rubbish, and.lands that have 
lately been in cultivation. It flowers most part of the yea" 
