406 SYNGENESIA AEQUALis. Serratula. 



Vernouia anthebnintica. Willd. iii. 1634. 



Cottu-shiragoni. Rheed. Mai. ii. t. 24. 



Sans, Somraj. 



Beng. Somraj. 



Conyza anthelmintica. Linn. 



Teling. Shendoo-geila-kura. 



Is a pretty large, erect, annual species, common on high 

 dry uncultivated ground, and rubbish. It flowers during the 

 cold season. 



Stem erect, branchy, round, clouded with elevated purple 

 spots, slightly downy, from two to three feet high. Leaves 

 scattered, petioled, broad-lanceolate, grossly serrate, slightly 

 downy, running down to the insertion of the petioles, size very 

 various. Floicers terminal, peduncled. Calyx ; leaflets une- 

 qual, the exterior ones small, subulate, diverging ; the inte- 

 rior ones wedge-formed. Florets twenty or thirty, equal, all 

 hermaphrodite. Tube cnxyeA ; se^mew^s of the border five, 

 incurved. Style long, two-cleft. Seeds cylindric, crowned 

 with hairs, or rather hairy soft bristles. Receptacle naked. 



2. S. cinerea. Roxb. 



Erect, annual. Leaves alternate, ovate-cordate, crenate, 

 rugose. Floicers terminal, somewhat fastigiate ; pappus hairy. 



Conyza cinerea. Willd. iii. 1925. 



Beng. Kookseem. 



This plant is one of the most common in every part of In- 

 dia ; every soil and situation suits it, and it is in flower at all 

 times of the year. 



Root ramous, annual. Stem erect, ramous, round, a little 

 downy and finely furrowed. Leaves alternate, petioled, 

 ovate, and ovate-cordate, crenate, rugose, often waved, some- 

 what pubescent, decurrent to the base of the petioles, from 

 one to three inches long. Floicers terminal, numerous, sub- 

 fastigiate, small, purple coloured. Florets equal, all herma- 

 phrodite. Calyx imbricate, with narrow-lanceolate acute 

 downy scales. Seeds cylindric, white, hairy ', pappus hairy. 



