Lagenophora.'] Compositce . 1 5 



on short ped., usually in pairs on leaf-opposed peduncle, inv.- 

 bracts oval, obtuse, thick and rigid, pubescent; cor.-tube cam- 

 panulate above, persistent, lobes acute. 



Open ground in dry region, especially on the bunds and margins of 

 tanks ; rather rare. Batticaloa ; Kantalai ; Habarane ; Anuradhapura. 

 Fl. all the year ; yellow. 



Throughout Tropical Asia and Africa. 



6. mVRZACTZS, Less. 



Annual, 1. alt. ; heads small, involucre cup-shaped, bracts 

 few, in one row, receptacle flat, naked, ray-fl. numerous, in 2 

 rows, ligulate, fern., disk-fl. numerous, tubular, bisexual ; 

 anth. -bases obtuse ; style-arms of bisexual fl. flattened, acute, 

 achene compressed, margined, pappus o. — Sp. 5 ; 3 in Fl. 

 B. Ind. 



M. Wig-htii, DC. in Wighi, Contrib. 10 (1834). 



Thw. Enum. 162. C. P. 1740. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 247. Wight, Ic. t. 1091. 



Annual, stem erect, \-2\ ft., stiff, more or less rough with 

 hairs, branches few, erect; 1. sessile, i|— 3 in., obovate-oblong, 

 coarsely serrate or incised, the lower ones with the upper half 

 ovate and deeply lobed at base and the lower half narrow, 

 the uppermost small, entire, all rounded and rather amplexi- 

 caul at base, acute at apex, hairy on both sides ; heads small, 

 terminating long branches, inv.-bracts oblong, obtuse, with 

 scarious margins, pubescent; ray-fl. very small, cor. spreading, 

 tube very glandular, limb linear, shortly 2-toothed, cor. of 

 disk-fl. deeply lobed, tube short, glandular ; achene bluntly 

 beaked, quite glabrous. 



Grassy places in upper montane zone ; common. Fl. all the year ; 

 ray white or purple, disk yellow. 

 Also in the Nilgiri Mountains. 



7. ZiAGEMOPKORA, Cass. 



Perennial herb, 1. radical, heads small, solitary, terminal ; 

 involucre campanulate, bracts few, linear, receptacle small, 

 convex, glabrous, ray-fl. in 1-3 rows, ligulate, female, disk-fl. 

 few, tubular, bisexual (usually sterile) ; anth.-bases obtuse, 

 style-arms of bisexual fl. flattened ; achene oval-oblong, com- 

 pressed, beaked, pappus o. — Sp. about 12; i in FL B. Ind. 



