Add SYNGENESTA FRUSTRANEA, Centaurea. 
_ Beng. Soorja mookee. 
Pers, Gooli-aftab. 
Of this we have several varieties from China, and Persia, 
and although originally from Peru, it may now without much 
impropriety, be inserted here, as an Indian plant. 
CENTAUREA. Schreb. gen. N. 1331. 
Calyx imbricate. Florets of the ray funnel-formed, longer 
and irregular. Receptacle bristly. Pappus simple. 
1. C, moschata, Willd. iii, 2278. 
Calyx with roundish-ovate, smooth scale. Leaves lyrate- 
toothed, : eis | 
Hind. Shah-pusund. 
In gardens all over India, where it flowers during the cold 
— and is considered a native of Persia. : 
2. C. lanata, Roxb. 
Annual, ramous, woolly. The inferior leaves petioled and 
sub-pinnatifid ; the superior ones, sessile, lanceolar, Scales 
of the calyx with scariose pectinate margins. Gc 
Found by Richard Pierard, Esq. on a mountain in the vici- 
nity of Hurdwar. From the specimens collected by that gen- 
tleman, seeds were obtained which produced abundance of 
_ plants in this garden which blossomed in April and May. 
Stem erect, soon dividing into many, alternate, sub-erect, 
somewhat angular, woolly branches; the whole height from 
twelve to eighteen inches, Leaves numerous, approximate, 
the inferior ones petioled and pinnatifid; the superior ones 
sessile, lanceolar and linear-oblong, about the middle of the 
plant they are remotely denticulate, while those near the 
flowers are entire, all are woolly on both surfaces; from tw? 
to six inches Jong. Peduneles terminal, solitary, short, 0n€- 
flowered ; size and colour of the flowers nearly as. in C. 
eyanus, Scales of the calyx chlo aa a broad, ' 
