Zinnm, polygamta super flu a. 435 



2. T. erecta. Willd. iii. 2127. 



Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves lanceolate, ciliate-serrate. 

 Peduncles naked, one-flowered. 



Benrj. Genda. 



If originally from Mexico, like Tobacco^ they have now 

 become denizens of the East, and considered as indijrenous. 

 particularly in Persia and China. They blossom during' the 

 coolest season in the Botanic gaiden at Calcutta. 



ZINNIA. Schreh. gen. N. 1304. 



Receptacle chaffy. Pappus of two straight awns. Calyx 

 sub-ovate, imbricate. 



Z. bidetis. Retz. Ohs. v. 28. 



Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers peduncled, hermaphrodite; 

 florets four-cleft. 



Is a rare plant on the coast of Coromandel, I have only 

 found it amongst the Circar mountains during the rainy sea- 

 son, when it flowers. 



Root woody, perennial. Stem erect, frequently ramous, 

 and from six to eighteen inches high. Leaves radical, many, 

 petioled, pinnatifid, smooth ; divisions linear, those of the stem 

 sub-sessile, otherwise they are like those of the root. Floicers 

 a iew, terminal, peduncled, small, yellow. Calyx simple, 

 from eight to ten-leaved. Hermaphrodite florets of the disk 

 from seven to twelve, four-cleft. Female florets of the ray 

 from five to ten. Stamens four. Seeds, those of the ray short- 

 est, all compressed, striated, and two-horned ; horns straight, 

 divaricate, acute, armed with short, stiff hairs pointing back- 

 wards, by these they adhere readily to whatever touches 

 them. 



JVote. Willdenow has by some unaccountable mistake 

 quoted Retzius's Z. bidois, which I know to be this plant, 

 as I was with Kiinig when he first discovered and described 



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