444 DIPSACE Æ. Dirsacus. 
most leaves subtending the principal branches: corolla 5-cleft: fruit linear- 
oblong, glabrous.— Wight ! cat. n. 1373. 
1363. (2) V. Leschenaultii (DC.:) herbaceous: stem erect, simple, with 
the knots hairy, otherwise glabrous: radical leaves petioled, ovate, obtuse, 
crenated, hirsute on both sides; stalk-leaves remote, small, sessile, the up- 
"permost cut in a pinnated manner into 3-5 linear glabrous lobes, the odd one 
the longest: corymb contracted: fruit villous.—2 C. prod. 4. p. 640; Wail.? 
L. n. 6636. 
We have not seen this plant. We have quoted Wallich’s List with doubt, 
because he mentions that his specimens were received from Dr Wight, while 
the only species with simple leaves at present in Dr Wight’s collection is 
V. Brunoniana. De Candolle says that the root-leaves with their petiole are 
scarcely 2 inches long (in V. Brunoniana they are often nearly 6 inches), 
and the habit is that of V. dioica. 
1364. (3) V. Hookeriana (W. & A.:) herbaceous : stem erect, simple, with 
the knots slightly hirsute, otherwise glabrous: radical leaves on very long 
petioles, pinnated with 5-7 leaflets ; lower leaflets oblong, small, odd one 
ovate or cordate-ovate and repand toothed, all hirsute along the margins ; 
cauline leaves few and distant, the lower ones resembling the radical but 
much smaller and with the odd leaflet oblong, uppermost pair sessile narrow- 
oblong and toothed: corymb panicle-shaped, lax: corolla 5-cleft : fruit lan- 
ceolate, shortly villous.— Wight ! cat. n. 1374. 
ORDER LXXXIIL-—DIPSACEJE. Juss. 
.. Calyx with a limb short or elongated, entire, or toothed, or pappose- 
Corolla inserted on the apex of the tube of the calyx, tubular; limb 
oblique, 4—5-lobed, rarely ringent: estivation imbricated. Stamens 4, 
inserted on the tube of the corolla, alternate with its lobes, almost al- 
ways distinct: anthers 2-celled. Ovarium cohering with the tube of 
the calyx, either closely, or only by the apex, or at first free and after- 
wards cohering, l-celled: ovule solitary, pendulous: style filiform : 
stigma simple. Fruit dry, indehiscent, crowned by the limb of the 
calyx, usually covered by an outer calyx or involucellum, 1-celled. 
Seed solitary, pendulous. Embryo straight, in the axis of a fleshy al- 
bumen: radicle superior. — Leaves opposite, very rarely verticillate, 
variable in shape on the same plant. Flowers densely capitate, Or 
very rarely verticillate. 
I, DIPSACUS. Tourn.; Linn.; Gertn. fr. t. 86; Lam. ill. t. 56. 
Flowers aggregated upon a common receptacle, separated from each other 
by palese, and each furnished with a partial calyx-shaped involucel. Heads 
surrounded by a general many-flowered involucre, which is usually much 
longer than the pales. Palese acuminated, somewhat foliaceous. Involucel 
8-furrowed. Calyx-limb somewhat cup-shaped or discoid. Corolla 4-cleft, 
notringent. Stamens 4, free, and nearly equal. Stigma longitudinal. Fruit 
crowned with the somewhat 4-angled limb of the calyx, included within the 
involucel.—Herbaceous biennial or rarely perennial, erect, hairy or slightly 
prickly plants. Leaves opposite, often connate at the base, toothed, pinnati- 
