Dipsacui' tetrandria monogynia.. 367 



DIPSACUS. 



Common calyx many-leaved ; loroper superior, single. Recepta- 

 cle chaffy. 



1. D. inermis. Wall. 



Leaves oblong, serrate, villous, petioled, sub-lubate ; car.Hne con-- 

 nate; heads globular, villous; c^q^ cuneate, suLulale-acuminate, 

 scarcely longer tlian the tube of the corolla. 



^ ? with all the leaves pinnatifid-lobate. 



Grows wild at Katmandu and Gossain Than, from whenx:e 

 Mr. Gardner has sent me specimens and seeds. Dr. Gowan lias- 

 likewise found it to the Northward of Saharunpore. Blossoms dur- 

 ing the rainy season. 



Nepala name, Barheri and Gooja. 



Root strong, fibrous, ash-coloured. — Stem erdct, slender, listu- 

 lous, four or more feet high, many-sided, biachiate, the lower half 

 densely clad with reflexed soft hairs, the upper sparingly beset with 

 inoffensive bristles, chiefly along its ribbed corners. Leaves une-^ 

 qually and doubly serrated, soft and villous on both sides, with a 

 few scattered bristles ; radical about a foot long, three inches broad, 

 acute, tapering much downwards and sub-decurrent on their equaW 

 ly long lender petiol ; sometimes with a deep lobe on one or both 

 sides of their base ; those of the stem consisting of two or three 

 remote pairs, five or six inches long, acuminate, undivided, generally 

 more bristly than the others, connate at their base and forming 

 there a short cup.— Fedimcles very long and slender, few, erect, 

 mostly with a pair of narrow short leaves at their middle,— i/e.W.? 

 nearly round, obtuse, an inch in diameter; i«to/«f re consisting of six 

 or eight linear channelled recurved ciliate leaves, an inch long — Re- 

 ceptacle ovate, marked with square impressions for tlie insertion of 

 the flowers, beset with membranaceous pale, hairy, cuneate, concave 

 spreading scales, with a rounded apex ending in a strai=-ht ciliate 

 purple-coloured lanceolate acute point, which is as long as the Ir- 

 mina itself. Corolla yellowis'i Mhite, pubescent, wi;h four almost 



