Cesulia, POLYGAMIA SEGREGATA, 447 
E. echinatus. Roxb. 
Annual, ramous, spreading. Heads globular, spinous, 
Partial perianth double;* the exterior one imbricated, 
many-leaved ; the interior oniedien ved; five-cleft. 
A native of Mysore, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the 
seed to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where the plants 
thrive luxuriantly, and blossom about the beginning of the 
hot season in February and March. 
Root annual. Stem scarcely any, but many, dichotomous, 
round, villous branches spreading in every direction ; height 
of the luxuriant plants in the Botanic garden, not more than 
two feet, but covering an extent of ground fully twice that in 
diameter, Leaves stem-clasping, runcinate, spinous-toothed, 
villous above, and tomentose, or cottony underneath. Heads 
of fiowers terminal, solitary, globular, white. Common pe- 
rianth of several, totally reflexed, spatulate, laciniate, ciliate, 
permanent scales. Proper perianth double, one-flowered ; 
the exterior one of several, acute, imbricated scales, surround- 
ed with much long hair, here and there one of the scales end- 
ing in a long, straight, simple spine, which projects a little 
beyond the flowers ; the inner or proper perianth, one-leaved. 
Tube gibbous. Border five-parted ; division unequal, and 
ciliate. Florets, tube cylindric ; divisions of the border re- 
volute. Seeds hairy, enclosed in the tube of the inner proper 
perianth. Receptacle globular, naked. 
% CESULIA. R. 
Cale common, many-leaved, Partial perianth one-leav- 
ed, one-flowered. Florets tubular, hermaphrodite, Re 
— sakod.: Pappus none. 
“C. axillaris, Willd. iii. 1796. Corom. pl. 1. N. 93. 
Annual, creeping near the base. Leaves alternate, lan- 
ceolate, serrate. _ Flowers, pie sessile, : ss 
a 1 nah cite if the large PIRES 
surrounds the many-leaved, imbricated one, can be so ama 
