404 SYNGENESIA AEQUALis. Prenunthes, 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal, from the district 

 of Dinaoepore Dr. Carey sent the plant to the Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta, Avhere it flowers in March and April. 



Root perennial. Stem none, the top of the root, under the 

 surface of the soil divides into several shoots, each of which 

 produces a single small tuft of leaves from its apex. Leaves 

 radical, sessile, linear-lanceolate, entire, very smooth, of a 

 deep green on both sides ; from four to six inches long, and 

 less than half an inch broad. Scapes short, in general about 

 an inch long, smooth, bearing from one to six alternate, yel- 

 low, pedicelled flowers. Calyx from six to eight-leaved, with 

 a cahjcle of three or four ovate scales. 



2. P. •piocnmhens. Roxb. 



Procumbent. Leaves mostly radical, linear, runcinate. 

 Racemes terminal, flowers in rather remote fascicles. Calyces 

 many-flowered. 



A native of Benoal. It flowers during the hot season. 



/?oo^ simple orsomewhat branched, when broken discharg- 

 ing an orange-coloured sap, of a heavy, soporific s^mell; from 

 their size, it may be supposed they are biennial or more. 

 Stem none, but many, procumbent, dichotomous, smoodi 

 branches springing immediately from the root, from one to 

 two feet long. Leaves chiefly radical, spreading flat on the 

 earth, linear-runcinate, segments short, and rather obtuse ; 

 margins a little scabrous, with minute, spinous points, those 

 of the branches less divided and even entire. Racemes as- 

 cending, terminal, as long as the rest of the plant below them. 

 Flowers in rather remote fascicles, yellow. Pedicels nearly 

 as long as the flowers, scaly, with small bractes. Calyx sub- 

 cylindric, scales linear, with white membranaceous margins, 

 and quickly decreasing into a calycle. Florets from twen- 

 ty to thirty. Pappus simple, and sessile. 



3. P. asplemfolia. Willd. iii. 1540. 



Ascending, ramous, many-flowered. Leaves sessile, linear, 

 pinnatifid, or runcinate, smooth. 



