COMPOSlTi^ H 



Nilgiris : Kotagiri, etc. Pulneys near Kodaikanal. Sedg- 

 wick 1 1 73. Fyson 4361. Bourne 349. 



Gen, Dist. Throughout India. 



Gnaphalium luteo-album L. ; Vol. I p. 234. t. 387. 



CHRYSOGONUM. 

 Chrysogonum hctcrophyllum Benth. ; Vol. I p. 235 

 t. 388. 



Chrysogonum arnottianum Benth. ; Vol. I p. 235. 

 Rays yellow. Wight Ic. t. I105. 



Nilgiris : on the western downs, Mukarte Peak. Fyson. 

 The large leaves and yellow rays alone distinguish this 

 from the previous species. Probably both are varieties of one. 



SIEGESBECKIA. 

 Siegcsbcckia orientalis Linn.-^ Vol. I p. 236, II 

 t. 168. 



SPILANTHES. f.b.i. 78 lviii. 

 Annual herbs with opposite leaves, and long-stalked 

 globular or conical, often very tall, flower heads, of the 

 tube HELIANTHOIDE^ (see Vol. I p. 209) achenes with- 

 out pappus but sometimes with a few bristles. 

 Species 20 chiefly American. 



Spilanthes acmclla Linn. ; F.B.I, ill 307, LXXIII i. 

 Easily distinguished among our COMPOSITE by the 

 conical, bright yellow flowers-heads without rays. 

 Stem weak or more or less erect. Leaves triangular 

 ovate, with shallow serrations, three-nerved at the base, 

 pubescent as are all green parts. Peduncles 2 to 4 

 inches, heads J^ by % inch. Involucral bracts few. 

 Florets all tubular, funnel-shaped, yellow. Achenes 

 compressed, V^ inch long, black, contracted below the 

 small terminal areola, t. 389. 



Nilgiris : A wayside weed, common, Ootacamund (Sep. etc.). 

 Kotagiri, Coonoor, etc. Fyson 4298. Sedgwick 1682. 



Gen. Dist. Throughout India and all warm countries. 



