440 POLYGAMIA suPERFLUA. Verbesina. 



There is no other interior calyx than the obtuse, boat-like 

 chaff of the receptacle ; their number is equal to that of the 

 female florets which they embrace, they are covered on the 

 outside with hairs, each ending- in a green glutinous bulb. 



VERBESINA. Schreb. gen. N. 1317- 

 Receptacle chaffy. Pappus awned, or none. Calyx sim- 

 ple, or in a double order. 



1. V. calendulacea. Willd. iii. 2226. 



Perennial, creeping. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate, 

 serrate. Peduncles very long, one-flowered. Calyx five- 

 leaved. Female florets e\even. 



Beny. Bangra. 



Pee-cajoni. Rheed. Mai. x. t. 42. 



Caltha, &c. Burm. Zeyl. t. 22./. 1. 



Grows amongst bushes or wet lands near Calcutta, 

 Flowering during the rains. 



Stems annual, creeping, or climbing ; branch lets sub-erect, 

 raund, somewhat scabrous, from one to four feet long. Leaves 

 opposite, sessile, broad-lanceolate, sometimes most slightly 

 and remotely serrate, on both sides scattered with short, stiff, 

 white hairs issuing from dark green pits, from two to four 

 inches long. Peduncles axillary, solitary, longer than the 

 leaves, erect, round, a little hairy, one-flowered. Flowers 

 pretty large, of a bright yellow. CaZ?/a; five-leaved. Herma- 

 phrodite florets from twenty to thirty. Female ones from ten 

 to fifteen, with their apices three-toothed. Seeds angular, 

 crowned with a variously divided coronet. Receptacles con- 

 vex, chafty ; c/ift^ lanceolate. 



The plant is void of smell, but has a slight terebinthena- 

 ceous taste. 



2. V. biflora, Willd iii. 2226. 



Erect, annual. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate-lanceolate, 



