Artimisia. syngenesia superflua. 423 



linear and olliers; pinnalifid. Flowers solitary, peduncled, 

 Iicmis^pheric. Hermaphrodite florets four-toothed ; the^e- 

 male ones naked. 



A small, erect, ramous annual, of short duration, appear- 

 ing in dried up rice fields about Calcutta during the months 

 of February and March. 



Root of many, small, simple fibres. Stem erect, towards 

 the apex ramous, round, smooth, except for a few, soft, 

 woolly fibres; the whole height from six to eight inches. 

 Leaves alternate, pinnate, nearly as long as the stem of the 

 plant. Leaflets alternate, linear, toothed, gashed or pin- 

 natifid. Floral leaves small and nearly simple. Flow- 

 ers terminal, hemispheric, solitary, peduncled, with ge- 

 nerally a small leaf about the middle of the peduncle, 

 in the flowering time erect, afterwards bent to one side, 

 drooping. Calyx, exterior leaflets largest. Hermaphro- 

 dite florets four-toothed, numerous in the centre; thej^- 

 male ones naked and more numerous in the circumfer- 

 ence. Receptacle, the seeds from the hermaphrodite florets 

 leave hollow pits thereon, whereas those of the female, leave 

 sub-columnar elevations. 



10. A. sternntatoria. R. 



Annual, procumbent, woolly. Leaves sessile, wedge- 

 shaped, dentate, downy underneath. Flowers axillary, 

 sessile; hermaphrodite florets from ten to twelve, four- 

 cleft; the yema/e ones numerous, three-toothed. Receptacle 

 naked. 



Benrf. Mechitta, also Nukh chiknee. 



Appears with other syngeneseous plants during the latter 

 part of the cold season, on cultivated land. The whole plant 

 does not cover more than about six or eight inches in diame- 

 ter, and is the smallest of the genus I have yet met with in 

 India. 



