428 POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. CoiU/za. 



It differs fioin lacera, in having all the leaves laciniate and 

 from terebhUhiuarea in the inflorescence and flowers. In this 

 the panicle is expanded, and oval, and the flowers conical, 

 in that corymbiform,and the flowers ovate. 



5. C. laceia. Burm. hid. 180. t. 59./. I. 



Annual, erect. leaves oval, sharp-toothed, downy. Flow- 

 ers sub-umbelled. 



Beng. Bwra kooksoong. 



Is a large ramous annual species, a native of dry pasture 

 ground near hedges. Flowering during the cold season. 



Stem erect, branchy, particularly near the ground. Leaves 

 the lower, or rather the principal leaves of the stem are peti- 

 oled, lyred ; the superior ones simply oval, and many times 

 smaller ; all are sharp toothed, pale green, downy, various in 

 size. Umbellets terminal, and from the exterior axills pediin- 

 cled. Flowers a dull yellow. 



The whole plant has a pretty strong smell of turpentine. 



6. C. aiirila. Wif/d. iii. 1929. 



Annual, erect, ramous, covered with glutinous down. 

 Leaves oblong, somewhat lyred, finely-toothed, downy. Pe- 

 duncles terminal, bracted, one-flowered. 



This species is also annual, a native of the same places with 

 the former, flowering in the same season. 



5:<em erect, about two feet high, very ramous, round, cover- 

 ed with glutinous down. Leaves, the inferior ones large, 

 petioled, oval, slightly lyred ; the superior ones small, linear, 

 sessile, runcinate ; all are finely-toothletted, and covered 

 with very soft, somewhat glutinous down; size very various. 

 Peduncles terminal, bracted, downy, erect, one-flowered, the 

 whole forming something like a large flattened panicle. 



This species smells still stronger of turpentine than the 

 last described, at the same time the smell is far from being- 

 disagreeable. These two promise to contain active principles, 

 yet I cannot learn that they have ever been employed for any 

 use. Cattle never taste either of them. 



