1 4 CompOsitCB. [Gran^ea. 



depressed-globose, smooth, fl. minute, numerous, all tubular, 

 the lower fern., in several rows, cylindrical, 2- or 3-toothed, 

 the upper bisexual, few, funnel-shaped, 5-lobed, anth. -bases 

 truncate, style-branches of bisexual fl. short, flattened ; achene 

 compressed, smooth, pappus of fern. fl. o, of bisexual fl. of 2 

 or 3 bristles. — Sp. 5 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



I>. latifolia, DC. in Wight, Contrib. 11 (1834). 



Cotula bicolor, W., Moon Cat. 58. Thw. Enum. 162. C. P. 1766, 



3303- 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 245 (not given for Ceylon). Wight, Ic. t. 1096. 



Annual, 6-24 in. high, stem usually divaricately branched, 

 cylindrical, with white spreading hair, 1. oval, usually deeply 

 pinnatifid, with a large ovate terminal lobe and one or two 

 pairs of much smaller lateral ones, all coarsely crenate-serrate, 

 sparsely hairy on both sides, veins prominent beneath ; heads 

 about I, in., few, depressed-globose, on rather long divaricate 

 peduncles, inv.-bracts inconspicuous, with scarious lacerate 

 margins ; fem. fl. very minute, white, style-arms exserted, 

 bisexual fl. larger, cor. lobes short, acute. 



Damp waste ground ; a common weed at all elevations. Fl. all the 

 year; fem. fl. white, bisexual greenish-yellow. 



Throughout the Tropics of the Old World. 



Very variable; C. P. 1766 is an erect unbranched form with undivided 

 leaves, and small, more numerous heads. 



5. G-RANGEA, Adaiis. 



Annual, with prostrate stems, 1. alt, pinnatifid ; heads 

 moderate-sized, in pairs, involucre cup-shaped, bracts in 2 

 rows, equal, receptacle convex, fl. numerous, minute, densely 

 crowded, all tubular, the outer fem., the rest bisexual ; anth.- 

 bases obtuse ; style-arms of bisexual fl. short, truncate ; 

 achene terete, glandular, pappus a short tube with fimbriate 

 mouth. — Sp. 3 or 4 ; i in FL B. Ind. 



C maderaspatana, Poiret, Encycl. Mt'ih. Suppl. ii. 825 (181 1). 

 Artc7nisia tnaderaspaiana, L., Moon Cat. 58. Thw. Enum. 163. 

 C. P. 1767. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 247. Wight, Ic. t. 1097. 



Annual, stems numerous, spreading from centre, prostrate, 

 6-12 in., hairy, branched, buds white-woolly ; 1. numerous, 

 ii-2^ in., sessile, deeply pinnatifid with 2-4 pair of opp. lobes 

 smaller towards the base, terminal part larger, all coarsely 

 serrate-dentate, i)ubcsccnt ; heads '^-\ in., depressed-globose, 



