12 NEILGHERRY PLANTS. 
CARPESIUM. 
Capitulum heterogamous discoid, marginal florets female several series ; disk hermaphrodite. 
Anthers caudate. Branches of the style terete obtuse subglabrous. Achenia oblong compressed. rostrate ; 
rostrum beset with viscid glands. Pappus none.—Herbaceous erect plants : leaves alternate : capitula solitary on 
the ends of the branches : involucrum many series imbricate, exterior ones sometimes foliaceous : flowers 
yellow. 
This is a small genus of 8 species, 7 of which are Indian the other a native of Europe ; one is said to 
be a native of Travancore. Considerable difference of opinion exists among Botanists as to its proper place 
in the order. It is certainly very unlike the other Gnaphalioid genera met with on the Hills, but as they are 
few in number that is no criterion. It a8sociates with the tribe in its caudate anthers and heterogamous 
capitula. 
This is a curious looking plant but has no beauty to recommend it to notice. The beaks of the seed 
are covered with vascid glands which causes them to adhere to whatever approaches them, hence, as the plant 
is common in the woods, it is no uncommon occurrence for one who has been walking in such places to find 
his clothes covered with them on returning from his rambles. 
CarPesitum NEPALENSE (Lessing) hirsuto-villous: more villous beneath : capitula 4 lines broad.—D. C. 
leaves elliptico-lanceolate, acuminate, dentate, attenu- . 6—281, 
ated into the petiol ; capitula subcernuous, campanu- A common plant in ali the woods about Ootacamund, 
late: interior scales of the involucrum subacute.— but so far as | am aw e neither useful nor ornamen- 
Petiols and branches villoso-hirsute, leaves pale and tal, To the Botanist only it is interesting. 
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Sub-tribe Senecione. Capitula homogamous or ‘heterogamous ; discoid or 
radiate. Anthers ecaudate, Achenia crowned with a setaceous or pilose pappus the 
marginal ones sometimes bald, Leaves alternate. . 
tat ins e last sub-tribe, is an extensive group, 
than it. In that there are 80 genera, in this 25. The difference in the number of species is not so great in 
proportion. This sub-tribe is only remarkable as including the genus Senecio the largest, as regards the 
number of its species, in the vegetable kingdom, containing, as left by DeCandolle, upwards of 600. In that 
series the variations in form are numerous and great, and doubtless many genera will yet be constructed out 
of the genus Senecio, though, as it now stands, the series as a whole is so natural that DeCandolle confesses, 
that he could not detect characters of sufficient moment. to enabl ies i 
subgenera, and was, consequently, forced to distribute them geographically, grouping those of each geographical 
division into sections more or less natural. According to these geographical groups it appears that the genus 
most predominates in Africa, pecially t ls the Southern extremity, whence 178 species have been obtained, 
and including Madagascar and Mauritius, 214. The Caucasean district, including Europe and the northern pro- 
vinces of Africa and Asia, furnish 114 ; while the whole of America and her Islands only contribute 150— 
Tropical Asia and all Australia are still more deficient, as they only give 80 to the stock, that is, 45 for Asia 
more abounding in species but with a fewer genera 
e him simply to distribute the species into 
and 35 for Australia, 
Many of the genera of this sub-tribe are very nearly allied. The principal difference between 
Doronicum and Senecio consists in the achenia of the ray of the former being, bald or without pappus, while 
those of the latter have it. Another genus of this sub-tribe I have separated from Doronicum on the ground 
of both disk and ray flowers being without pappus; generally, however, the genera of this tribe are much 
more easily distinguished than those of the preceding. Of this sub-tribe but few species are, so far as Iam 
aware, admitted into cultivation and some of them, such as Senecio vulgaris, become almost inexterminable 
weeds. 
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