Sphteranthus. syngenesia segregata. 445 



pectinate border round the anterior margins. JVeuter florets 

 from eight to ten, with a filiform, long, curved tube. Seeds 

 oblong, smooth. Pappus bristly in the circumference, chaffy 

 in the centre. Receptacle bristly. 



SYNGENESIA SEGREGATA. 



ELEPHANTOPUS. Sclireb. gen. N. 1347. 

 Partial perianth four flowered. Florets tubular, herma- 

 phrodite. Receptacle naked. Pappus bristly. 



E. scaber. Willd. iii. 2389. 



Herbaceous. Leaves chiefly radical, sessile, oblong, very 

 hairy. Heads peduncled and sessile. Involucre three-leav- 

 ed, many-flowered. 



Aua schovadi. Rheed. Mai. x. p. 13. t. 7. 



Beng. Samdullum. 



A native of the warmer parts of India, delighting in a dry 

 elevated soil ; flowering time the cold season. 



Root fibrous, biennial or more. Stem erect, rigid, ramous, 

 round, hairy, about one foot high, and as thick as a stout quill. 

 Leaves chiefly radical, half stem-clasping, spreading flaton the 

 surface of the earth, oblong, wrinkled, crenulate, very hairy. 

 The cauline leaves are few, much smaller, and at the insertion 

 of the branches only. Heads solitary, terminal on long pe- 

 duncles with a sessile one at the base of each of the long- 

 peduncles. Involucre, or common perianth of three sessile, 

 cordate, hairy leaflets, embracing numerous fascicles of co- 

 rollets. Perianth, partial, many-leaved, four-flowered. Flo- 

 rets tubular ; the hermaphrodite ones pale red. Pappus of 

 five hairy bristles. 



SPHjERANTHUS. Schreh. gen. N. 1352. 

 Partial perianth eight-flowered. Florets tubular, a few 



