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linear-lanceoInte, entiiv, (lecinroiit. Pcduncira terminal, be- 

 coming* axillary, oltcu winged, and then with a leaf near the 

 solitary tiower. Calycine leaflets subulate, the exterior ones 

 recurved. 



Found in Nepal by Dr. Buchanan, who sent the seeds to 

 the Botanic gaiden where the plants l)lossoni during the hot 

 season. 



13. C. repanda, R. 



Annual, straight, ramous. Leaves stem-clasping, not de- 

 current, lanceolar, repand-<lenticulate. Flowers numerous, 

 on the branchlets ovate. 



From Pegu introduced into the Botanic garden where it 

 appears about the close of the rains, flowering and ripening 

 its seed from December till May. 



Root annual. Stem straight to the top of the plant, from 

 three to six feet high, slighdy striated, and somewhat pubes- 

 cent. Branches numerous, alternate, nearly erect, with al- 

 ternate, simple or decompound, floriferous branchlets. Leaves 

 alternate,stem-clasping, but not decurrent ; those of the stem 

 large, broad-lanceolate, tapering most toward the base, where 

 they expand into two lobes, one on each side of the stem ; 

 the margins repand, and dentate, from six to ten inches long. 

 Those of the branches and branchlets very small ; all are 

 harsh to the feel, and a little hairy. Floicers ovate, small, 

 yellow, in little, rather remote, alternate fascicles, on the 

 branchlets, some sessile, some short-peduncled. Scales of the 

 calyx linear, with scariosc, ciliate margins. Corollets from 

 ten to twenty, five-toothed, hermaphrodite in the centre, 

 numerous, and most slender, three-toothed females in the cir- 

 cumference. Pappus of simple white hairs. Receptacle ^nt, 

 dotted. 



14. C. salicifolia. Willd. iii. 1939. 



Shrubby. Leaves linear-lanceolar, entire, downy under- 

 neath. Corymbs terminal, densely ramous. Flowers with one 



