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a. Heads with ligulate marginal flowers; margin-flowers saint- 

 colored as disc-flowers Soli day o . 



/3. Heads with 2 oo series of ?-. with ligulate or flliformed 

 corollu ; pappus short or 0. 



Fruit crowned with a cup Granyea. 



Fruit not crowned with a cup Dicltrocepltala. 



f. Heads with ligulate margin-flowers, whose colour is different 

 from that of disc-flowers. 

 Pappus reduced or 0. 



Fruit without sticky ring at the &pex...Lagenophora* 



Fruit with a sticky ring at the apex Myrlactis. 



Pa}ipus setaceous or in A. indicus nearly reduced. 

 Involucral 1 tracts more than 2-series : ray-flowers in 

 1-series, lanceolate ; appendage of style-branches 



lanceolate Aster. 



Involucral 1 tracts nearly 2-sericd, ray-flowers linear 

 in many scries: appendage of style-branches mostly 



short, triangular h'riycron. 



d. Heads with filiformed or short ligulate margin-flowers. 

 Pappus oo setaceous. 



Fruit not c unpressed Microglossa. 



Fruit compressed Cony::o. 



d. Heads homogamous or heterogamous, the outer ligulate. Anther- 

 cells (except Laggcra) tailed. Style various Inule;c. 



i. ^. flowers flliformed. 



1. Styles of ~tfL flowers with thoroughly hairy branches. 

 Heads simple, not collected into a head-like cluster. 

 a. Pappus-setfc oo. 



Herb with narrow involucral bracts. 



Anther tailed Blumcu. 



Anther not tailed Laggcra. 



Shrubs with wide involucral bracts. Pluchea. 

 ft. Pappus Epaltcs. 



