this associates better with it than the former, and I even 
think it might without impropriety be referred there, by 
which the necessity for a new genus would be avoided. 
1094. SPHRANTHUS HIRTUS (Willd) leaves obo- 
vate serrated, roughish on both sides, prolonged into 
serrated wings : glomoruli ovate globose, peduncles 
three times as long as the glomoruli usually furnished 
with serrately cleft wings.—D. C. å. c. 5. 369. 
This is a widely distributed plant, generally found in 
rice fields, flowering during the cool season. 
In this species there are 2 or 3 central hermaph 
flowers, surrounded by about 10 or 12 female ones. The 
glomorulus is usually purple of an oval shape, and 
shortly hairy all over. 
1095. DICHROCEPHALA CHRYSANTHEMIFOLIA (D.C.) 
erect ramous, the whole plant rough from close set shørt 
hairyness : inferior leaves lyrately pinnatifid : the supe- 
rior ones oblong, cordately semiamplexicaul, coarsely 
serrated ; the upper ones entire : peduncles much longer 
than the capitula.—D. C. I. ር. 5. 372. 
Frequent on the Neilgherries about road sides and in 
neglected places, apparently in flower most part of the 
year. 
1096. 了 ICcHROCEPHALA LATIFOLIA (D. C.) stem 
erect, sparingly pilose, leaves obovate attenuated into 
the petiole, coarsely toothed, often inciso-pinnatifid at 
the base; flowering branches ramous nearly naked ; 
pedicels rigid divaricated longer than the globose 
capitula—D C. l ር. 5. 372. 
Neilgherries very common. The capitula of this are 
scarcely half the size of the preceding, but the leaves are 
much larger. This in suitable situations is a lax, luxu- 
riant growing plant, the other is always an erect rigid 
one. 
1097. GranGea MADRASPATANA (Poir) stems pro- 
cumbent or diffuse, the extremities villously pubescent. 
— D. C. l. c. 5. 373. 
A common plant near the borders of tanks all over 
Southern India. ` 
1098. CYATHOCLINE LYRATA (Cassine) inferior leaves 
lyrate, upper lobes of the leaves larger, obovate. — D. 
C. ፌ ር. 5. 374. 
This so far as my own observation extends is a rare 
plant. The specimens here represented were gathered 
on the banks of a stream in Orange valley, en the Neil- 
gherries, generally past flower, in August. 
1099. BLUMEA HIERACEFOLIA (D. C.) every where 
hairy: stem herbaceous erect terete simple: leaves 
callously dentate, the inferior ones obovate obtuse, atte- 
nuated into the petiole ; the superior ones oval or oblong, 
acute, sessile or semiamplexicaul : capitula sessile, 
crowded, forming an ovate oblong thyrse : scales of the 
involucrum linear, acuminated, smoothish, longer than 
the disk.— D. C. l. c. 5. 442. 2 
Rather frequent on the Neilgherries in moist soil near 
springs or on the banks of streams and water courses. 
It is either a variable plant in habit, or there are other 
species so nearly allied that it seems almost impossible 
to distinguish them by written characters. The plant 
represented seems to be the true form, further described 
by D.C. as follows. “ Herbaceous, about a foot high: 
leaves more hairy beneath: involucram purplish on the 
margin: female flowers innumerable, slender: style 
exserted undivided; males 5 in the centre: ovaria 
pubescent. 
1100. BLuMEA PTERODONTA (D. C.) stem herbace- 
ous terete ramous ; scarcely puberulous ; viscid towards 
the extremities : leaves elliptic oblong glabrous, subser- 
rated, decurrent, forming a long deeply and acutel 
dentate or cleft wing: branches leafy, bessen 
with one or few capitula at the apex; pedicels naked: 
exterior scales of the involucrum oblong foliaceous short ; 
the interior ones scariose linear acute, a little longer 
than the flowers.— D. C. l. ር. 5. 448. 
Neilgherries near Kaitie falls, a widely distributed 
plant occurring equally on the plains and mountains 
aud D. C. saw specimens from Madagascar. 
1101. Brumza ALATA (D. C.) stem herbaceous 
erect ramous and, like the leaves, clothed with short 
redish pubescence : leaves elliptic oblong, dentate, de- 
current, forming wings along the stem : peduncles axil- 
lary one or few headed, racemosely panicled : capitula 
suberect : exterior scales of the involucrum lanceolate, 
foliaceous, squarose, pubescent ; interior linear sca- 
riose as long as the flowers.—Flowers purple males 10 
or 12.— D. C. l. c. 5. 448. 
Neilgherries not unfrequent. Of this species there are 2 
varieties referred to ከሃ D. C. Bcernua and په‎ Napalen- 
sis the plant represented belongs to the former—* stems 
herbaceous erect ramous, like the leaves clothed with 
short redish pubescence : leaves oblong acuminate, den- 
ticulate, decurrent, forming wings aloug the stem, pe- 
duncles axillary 1 or few headed racemosely panicled 
recurved ; capitula cernuous : exterior scales of the invo- 
lucrum lanceolate foliaceous pubescent, the interior ones 
long shining scariose recurved at the points, at length 
patent.” This species seems very near B. vernonioides, 
are they not varieties of the same species differing in the 
degree of clothing, the one “tota dense vellutino- 
hirsuta" the other (V. alata) ** pube brevi subrufa pu- 
bescenti-velutenis.” 
1102. 
5. 482. 
Mysore in marshy soil, the specimen represented was 
gathered in the reservoir of a ruinous hill fort. I have 
met with this plant in other places but it is far from 
common. This may possibly be a distinct species, as 
it differs from Roxburgh’s figure in the form of the stigma, 
here it is spathulate included within the tube of the 
corolla: there filiform exserted. As however, in all 
other points, it agrees with Roxburgh’s figure, I have 
referred it to his species under the impression that the 
slight difference may be attributable to the artist who 
made the drawing. 
CÆSULEA AXILLARIS (Roxb.) D. C. L. e, 
1103.  SrEGESBECKIA ORIENTALES (Linn) leaves 
ovate, cuniate at the base, acuminate, coarsely toothed ; 
the upper ones oblong lanceolate ; exterior scales of the 
involucrum twice the length of the interior — D. C. 
L. c. 5. 495. U 
This is a widely distributed plant in India, it is also 
found in China, the Mauritius, Society Islands and in 
Chili. It is principally interesting as having been 
named by Linnæus in derision of the high pretensions 
of one of his cotemporaries who contemned his sexual 
system. 
1104. Xawrmeum Inpicum. (Roxb.) 
The fruit bearing involucrum oval, pubescent between 
the prickles, and at the base of the beaks: beaks hooked 
at the points.— D. C./.c. 5 523. 
A large coarse rank growing plant found among rub- 
bish and dunghills. The genus, among Composete, is a 
very abnormal one, and has by one Botanist been refer- 
red to Urticacee and by another to Cucurbituceæ. It 
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