8 | NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
hills, growing in dry pastures. Some specimens I have seen, growing in arid rocky ground, were so reduced 
in size that at first sight they appeared to be Daisies and were of course eagerly appropriated and greatly prized 
until closer inspection showed the mistake. The difference between them and the specimen figured was much 
greater than between the two plants referred to in the preceding article and, probably, had they been sent as 
distinct species to even so acute and skilful an observer as the late professor DeCandolle, might have deceived 
him. The figure gives a good idea of the form of the plant but an indifferent one of the flowers which are white. 
Myrtactis Wicutu (D.C.) sparingly pilose: inferi- resemble the Daisy. “ Radicle vate ovate attenuated 
or leaves ovate with a long eee attenuation at the into the petiole, the inferior cauline ones cuniate at the 
base, coarsely inciso-serrate; the superior ones oblong _ base, sparingly eral the upper ones subsessile acu- 
entire sessile; the apices of the teeth and of the hg minated at both ends : capitula terminal solitary, 4-6 
themselves calloso-mucronate —. ..¢. p. 5. 308. lines in diameter : involucrum somewhat t hairy reflex- 
ed after blooming : ligule white chow 2 series becom- 
Neilgherries not unfrequent in pastures, minute ing "evalite in drying.” —D. C. 
forms of it growing in arid stony ground sometimes 
Sub-tribe Baccharideze Capitulum heterogamous or dioicous never radiate all 
the florets tubular ; usually several series of female ones in the circumference. 
Anthers ecaudate : receptacle epaliaceous. Leaves alternate. 
The plants composing this sub-tribe are most unlike those of the preceding 
and might, at first sight, well give rise to doubts regarding the propriety of the arrangement 
“which places them in their present situation. A closer examination, however, shows that 
the discrepancy is more apparent than real. Here asin the -Asterine we have two distinct 
sets of flowers the females in the circumference and the male or hermaphrodite ones in the 
centre, so that, in so far, the difference is mainly in the form of the female flowers, tubular 
here ligulate there ; but the style and stigmas correspond. The same tubular forms of ray 
flowers are found in the next sub-tribe, but in the subsequent ones Inulece and Ecliptece the 
radiate forms return, thus forming a circle combining what, upon the whole, appears a very 
natural group. 3 
DICHROCEPHALA. 
Capitulum heterogamous. Flowers all tubular: marginal ones female many series; 3-4 toothed ; 
central ones, hermaphrodite or male, few ; 4-5 toothed. Achenia compressed beakless, of the females bald 
of the males and hermaphrodites crowned with one or two bristles—Annuals with alternate leaves and few 
small globose capitula racemosely or paniculately arranged, shorter than the naked pedicels : involucrum, 
when present, expanding : receptacle naked conical : flowers purplish. 
This isa small genus seven species only having as yet been discovered. Two ofthese are natives of 
the Nesighertivs and five of India. Boththe Neilgherry ones occupy a wide geographical range, one being 
found in Java, China and other parts of India, the other, the one figured, in Java and on the hills. They are 
easily distinguished by the size of the capitula, those of D. chrysanthemifolia being fully double the size, of 
those of the other, while the leaves of D, latifolia are broader and larger than those of this. They are found 
about houses and neglected places in short pasture, but are little known, having meee in their appearance 
to attract notice, they may however, be viewed as Botanical curiosities. 
DICHROCEPHALA CHRYS kiwis LIA (D. C.) in neglected places, apparently in flower most part of 
erect ramous, the whole plant gna i close set the year. 
t hairyness: inferior leaves lyrately pinna atified ; 
be superior ones oblong: cordately enamel The little — Points on the outer surface of 
serrated; the upper ones on : penduncles the corolla deserv ce here as does the calicine rim 
Ba longer than the capitula—D. C. 1. ¢. 5. 372. of the achenia, as howe that the one pappus of 
ne : other species of the order, of which this is a modifica- 
Frequent on the Neilgherries about road sides and tion, is in truth a realcalyx though a very pene one. 
