444 SYNGENESiA FRUSTRANEA. Centaureit, 



JSeng, Soorja mookee. 



Pcrs. Gooli-aftab. 



Of this we have several varieties from China, and Persia, 

 and although originally from Peru, it may now without much 

 impropriety, be inserted here, as an Indian plant. 



CENTAUREA. Schreb. geyi. N. 1331. 



Ca/ya; imbricate, /^/ore/s of the ray funnel-formed, longer 

 and irregular. Receptacle bristly. Pappus simple. 



I.e. moschata. Willd. iii. 2278. 



Calyx with roundish-ovate, smooth scale. Leaves lyrate- 

 toothed. 



Hind. Shah-pusund. 



In gardens all over India, where it flowers during the cold 

 season, and is considered a native of Persia. 



2. C. lanata. Roxh. 



Annual, ramous, woolly. The inferior leaves petioled and 

 sub-pinnatifid ; the superior ones, sessile, lanceolar. Scales 

 of the calyx with scariose pectinate margins. 



Found by Richard Pierard, Esq. on a mountain in the vici- 

 nity of Hurdwar. From the specimens collected by that gen- 

 tleman, seeds were obtained which produced abundance of 

 plants in this garden .which blossomed in April and May. 



Stem erect, soon dividing into many, alternate, sub-erect, 

 somewhat angular, woolly branches; the whole height from 

 twelve to eighteen inches. Leaves numerous, approximate, 

 the inferior ones petioled and pinnatifid; the superior ones 

 sessile, lanceolar and linear-oblong, about the middle of the 

 plant they are remotely denticulate, while those near the 

 flowers are entire, all are woolly on both surfaces ; from two 

 to six inches long. Peduncles terminal, solitary, short, one- 

 flowered ; size and colour of the flowers nearly as in C. 

 cyanus. Scales of the calyx oblong, with a broad, scariose, 



