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ILLUSTfJATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 



toothed or sub-labiate, 

 the apex 



Pappus several series, pilose, rough, 

 shrubs. 



Style exserted, acute, hispid at 

 Achffinia elongated, more or less beaked. 



Herbs or under- 

 Leaves alternate, usually perforated with laree 

 pellucid glands. ■" — ' '' •- ■• 



5-toothed, hermaphrodite, or male by abortion^ 

 nia obovate, bald, with a minute, epigynous disk, 

 baceous or suffiuticose: leaves " 



Achse- 

 Her- 



Invcluere often bluish purple, 1 series, 

 scales at first cohering at the base. " 



Corolla 



alternate, variously 

 Involucre imbri 



f'unctuate. 

 slands. 



dull purple. 



Receptacle naked, 

 Nepaul, Philiipine 



Sub-tribe. Axthemide^. 



Lapitula usually heteroga- 

 vious, radiate or discoid, ligulce feimU or neuter. Anthers 

 ecaudate. Branches of the style truncated, bearded, very 

 rarely surmounted hy a cone. Achania angled, terete, or 

 obcompressed m the ray. Pappus none or crown-like, 

 rarely consisting of squamell<B or capillary hairs. Leaves 

 usually alternate. 



Div. I. EUA>^THEMIDE^. 



itula radiate. 



lobed; capitula spicate or racemose, 

 cated; scales dry on the margin. Receptacle epalea- 

 ceous, naked or hairy. Flowers yellow or purple. 

 Plants more or less bitter and aromatic. Widely dis- 

 tributed. Alpine in their predilections. 



72. Cross osTEPHicM (Less. D. C. 6-172). Capitula 

 many-flowered, heterogamous ; ray florets female, sev- 

 eral series, filiform, scarcely denticulate, larger at the 

 base ; the rest hermaphrodite, fertile, cylindrical, large, 

 5-toothed. Achaenia angled, wingless. Pappus nume- 

 rous, mmute, unequal, semilanceolate pale*.— A whitish, 

 tomentose^ shrub with alternate, firm, 3-lobed, cuniate 

 J, leaves. Capitula globose or racemose. Involucre cam- 



lieceptacle paleaceous. Cap- panulate, several series. Receptacle naked, conical. 



Flo^^ers yellow. PhiUipines, China, Canton. 



67. 

 tula 



AcHitLEJE (Lin. Neek. D. C. Prod. 6-24). Capi- 

 fem^\Tul:^7^'f\ heterogamous; ray florets 4^ 

 f:Shed.^T^-i-?^ ones^ tubular, hermaphrodite, 5- 



„Ki Tube of the corolla obcompressed. Achcenia 



eating. 



rachis-like. 

 Kemaon. 



Involucre ovate oblong, imbri- 

 narrow, flattish, or elongated, 

 Kay white, yellow, purple, ochre-coloured 



Receptacle 



Div. II. ChRTS ANTHEMED. 



Capitula radiate. 



Receptacle epaleaceous. 



68. Matricaria (Lin. D. C. 6-50). Capitula hetero- 



STsSthfV'f.' series, fema/e ; disk hermaphro- 

 d te, 4-o-toothed, tube terete. Achsnia wingless an- 



f aid! rl^rfSheUilhT cSi^n^^^^^^ ^>^-.p.cie naKecl, convex. Flowers yellow. Proper- 



nuals with much divided Wesbmnch^^^^^^^^^^ *!f r"'*.^"'^ sternutatory. Extensively diffused, pro- 



cephalous. Involucre imbricaled; several^^^^^^^^ •^'^"^bent, inconspicuous herbs. 



/3. Tanacetum (Less. D. C. 6-127). Capitula homo- 

 or heterogamous ; one row or3-4-toothed, female florets 

 m the circumference, those of the disk 4-5-toothed. 

 Ach^nia angled, glabrous, with a large epigynous 

 disk. Pappus none or membranaceous, crown-like.— 

 Herbs or shrubs, leaves variously divided. Capitula 

 solitary or corymbose, globose. Involucre cainpanu- 

 late, imbricated. Receptacle naked, convex. Flowers 

 yellow. Himalayas, Nepaul, Kemaon. 



74. Myriogyne (Less. D. C. 6-139). Capitula hete- 

 rogamous ; marginal florets many series, female, tubular, 

 scarcely dentate ; central few, hermaphrodite, 4-toothed, 

 with a short tube and campanulate limb. Achsenia 

 angled, wingless, epappose.— Very ramous, difflise herbs: 

 with alternate, obovate, dentate le ' 



first terminal, afterwards lateral. 

 Receptacle naked, convex. ~' 



Involucre 2 series. 



ceptacle large, naked, ovato-conical. 

 ray white. Cashmere. 



Re- 

 Disk yellow, 



ter.— Annua s or perennials Ipi^l^u *" ^^s diame- 

 or lobed. Involucre SnTJ. ^^'f^^^e, dentate, 

 the margin. Receptacle fl^«t?l^ ''^'''' '*^^"«^e on 

 teolate. ^ Disk yellow LI:? ''^ "' sometimes brac- 



pnus ChrysanCumlLTcum of S'^* Z^" ?^^ 

 longs.] India generaUy, one Ca^Cere ^"'''"'' ^'- 



70. Chrysanthemum (D. C. 6-63V Th- 

 fen from the two preceding nh^ ^r^ ^enus dif- 



the ray 3-winged, two latera! HT^'V^^ ^^^^^^^^ of 

 side : those of the S Jounrflh \^^ ""^ ^^ ^"terior 

 the interior side.-Herbs or 1 'r*\* short wing on 

 yellow, or white wSi a veil t"J^K ^^^"'* ^^^^ or 

 rarely purple. Beng^ ^^"""^ *"^«' Disk yellow or 



7o. SpH^ROMORPHiEA (D. C. 6-140). Capitula hete- 

 rogamous ; marginal florets many series, female, scarcely 

 tientate; central few, 4-toothed. Style bulbous at the 

 base. Achffinia cylindrical, striated, epappose.— De- 

 cumbent herbs with alternate leaves. Capitula globose, 

 depressed, axiUary. Involucre campanulate, 2-^ series, 

 longer than the flowers. Receptacle naked [D. C. asks 



t^is IS sufficiently distinct from Myriogyne]. Penin- 

 sula, Cochin China. ^ "^ 



Capitula heterogamous ; 



furnished with a 



numerous, 



ones 



/6. Machlis (D. C. 6-140). ^„. 

 marginal florets many series, not 



corolla? or very minute. Central _.. 



^oroUa obconical, 4-tooflied. Stigmas bearded at the 

 apex. Achaania terete, sub-angled, sub-glandulose ; of 

 the marginal flowers bidentaterof the centre truncated 

 at tne apex.— Herbs with alternate, multifid, pinnate 

 reaves. Capitula pediceUed, axillary. Involucre 3 

 senes Receptacle naked, punctulate. Bengal, Khassia, 



6-93, R. W 



Sub-tribe. Gnaphalieje. Capitula 



~^^ «^of ihe'cif '°^f ' ^^'"^g^^us^oV^kirSam^^^^^^^ f^erogamot^ discoid, venj rarel^';:^at^"^eti,m 

 '_,ot the circumference 1 seri., ..«„i,„ °„?*??^"^ A"'^'-erf. Anthers caudle. Ach^nin r^o,nned mil 



homogamous or 



'--, wa. a lo-^-- S--^ .^a,.^^ ^.= 



or setaceous 

 usually alternate. 



th a 



pai/pusj very rarely bald. Leaves 



