COMPOSITE. 385 



G. IxDictnr, L. All over Burm;i. 



G. slrittum ami multicaule, Koxb. 

 G. Niliacum, Kaddi. 



Erect or spreading from (ho base, more or less silky-pilose. Loaves elongate 

 obovate-cuneate. Flower-heads only about a lino long, leafy spicate. 



G. CEisPATULUjr, Del. I'egu in cultivation. 



Prostrate and spreading, the branehiiigs only sligbtly leaved at the lower parts, 

 more so upwards, the upper leaves forming st<dlate involucres to the densely crowded 

 leafy heads. 



f f Flower-heaih androgt/nnm, with ttmalhj fewer fcmah' than hermnphrodite Jlorets, 

 or homogamouK with the florets all hermaphrodite. Involueral bracts usually scarious. 



XX Stylehranches of hermaphrodite flotcers not truncate, filiform. Flower-heads 

 androgynous. 



+ Female florets supported or enveloped hy the scales of the receptacle or by the 

 involueral bracts. 



Athroisjia, De CanduUe. 



Flower-heads in dense terminal solitary clusters or short spikes. Female florets 

 subtended by the scales of the receptacle. Achenes broad, dorsally compressed, ciliate 

 on the margins. Scales of pappus very short, united into a ciliate-fringed ring. Herbs, 

 the leaves pinnatisect. 



A. LACJNiATUM, D.C. lUvcr-iicds in Pegu and Tenasserim. 



A. viscidum, ZoU. 



-)- + I^ccepfircle naked. Lnolucral bracts herbaceous, or scarious, linear. 

 ] Flower-heads small, packed into dense globose or ovoid clusters. 



SrHJERANTnrs, Linyiaus. 



Flower-heads in solitary terminal globular clusters. Pappus none. Anthers 

 ■without tails or points at the base. 



Sub-genus Polycephalos, Forsk. 



Outer bracts of the flower-heads longer than the flower-heads themselves, scarious 

 and long-awned. 



S. Pegukssis, Clarki". "Waste spots in Ava and Prome. 



Glandular-puberulous, the branches leafy- and serrate- winged ; heads shortly 

 peduncled, the empty bracts appressed bristly and ciliate. 



Sub-genus Eu-SrnjERAXTnus. 



Bracts shorter than the Hower-heads and almost entirely hidden by them. 

 Branches leafy-winged. 



S. niUTUS, Willd. Fallow lands all over Burma. 



/S. mollis, Iloxb. 



Pubescent or hirsute. Heads globose, i-'j ineli thick, the involueral bracts 

 tapering into a subulate ciliate point. 



S. I.NDicus, L. Prome. ilanlmain. 



S. microccphalus, Willd. 



Glabrous. Heads half the size, the involueral bracts scarious, often jagged at 

 the ends. 



Pteuocaclox, Elliott. 

 Flower-heads sessile, in spiked clusters or rarely solitary. Pappus of capillary 

 bristles. Anthers with short tails or points at the base. 



P. Bii.i.iARnrEui. F. JIuell. Fallow lands in Ava and Prome. 



Jfonenteles spicatus, Laliill. 

 P. cylindrostachyum, Clarke. 



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