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pectinate border round the anterior margins. /Veuter florets 
from eight to ten, with a filiform, long, curved tube. Seeds 
oblong, smooth. Pappus bristly in the circumference, chaffy 
in the centre. Receptacle bristly. 
SYNGENESIA SEGREGATA. 
ELEPHANTOPUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1347. 
Partial perianth tour-flowered. Florets tubular, herma- 
phrodite. Receptacle naked. Pappus bristly. 
E. scaber. Willd. iii, 2389. 
Herbaceous. Leaves chiefly radical, oot oblong, very 
hairy. Heads peduncled and sessile. Involucre three-leay- 
ed, many-flowered. 
Ana schovadi, Rheed, Mal, x. p. 13. t. 7. 
~ Beng. Samdullum. 
A native of the warmer parts of India, delighting in a dry 
elevated soil ; flowering time the cold season, 
Root fibrous, biennial or more. Stem erect, rigid, ramous, 
round, hairy, about one foot high, and as thick as a stout quill. 
Leaves chiefly radical}, halfstem-clasping, spreading flaton the 
surface of the earth, oblong, wrinkled, crenulate, very hairy. 
The cauline leaves are few, much smaller, and at the insertion _ 
of the branches only. Heads solitary, terminal on long pe- 
duncles with a sessile one at the base of each of the long 
peduncles. Involucre, or common perianth of three sessile, 
cordate, hairy leaflets, embracing numerous fascicles of co- 
rollets, Perianth, partial, many-leaved, four-flowered, Flo- 
rets tubular; the hermaphrodite ones pale red. Pappus of 
five hairy bristles. 3 
SPHERANTHUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1352. 
Partial perianth eight-flowered, Florets tubular, a few 
