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J4 inch wide or less, in branched rounded corymbs. 

 Bracts acute with strong mid-rib but hardly aristate, 

 scarious with purple tips. Achenes 1/12 inch ; ribs 5» 

 glabrous. Pappus three times as long. t. 376. 



Pulneys: downs just below Kodaikanal, towards Vilpatti, 

 etc. Fyson 4087, 5027, 4193. 



Gen. Dist. Nepal to Burma and the Pulneys. 



ADENOSTEMMA. 



Adcnostemma viscosum Forst\ Vol. I p. 218, II t 

 153. Florets small, purplish, hardly seen, but styles 

 white, long and flat, like ligules making whole head 

 white. Branches of panicles weak, divergent. 



EUPATORIUM. 



Eupatorium glandulosum H,B.& K.; Vol. I p. 220. 

 Unknown in Ootacamund I am told twenty-five years ago, and 

 introduced as a garden plant. Now abundant and a serious 

 pest. The last few years have seen it well established on road 

 sides for a considerable distance down the Seegur Ghat and along 

 the Coonoor-Kotagiri and the Kotagiri-Kodanad Roads as 

 far as the forking to Mettupalaiyam (1919). Special by-laws 

 have been passed for its extermination under the name of the 

 preceding species. 



Eupatorium odoratum Ltnn. A herb 12 inches high 

 with thin stem and widely diverging branches- Leaves 

 triangular-ovate, entire at the apex, coarsely toothed at 

 the base, three-nerved. Heads in corymbs terminating 

 the branches, cylindrical, florets about 20. Involucral 

 bracts, imbricate, obtuse, strongly three-nerved. 



Ootacamund, a garden introduction. 



DICHROCEPHALA. 

 See Vol. I p. 220. 



MYRIACTIS. 



Myriactis wightii DC; Vol. I p. 222 and II t. 158. 

 A wood-land plant. Heads at first white, turning purple. 

 Terminal head opening first. 



