24 CompOsitCB. [Epaltes. 



achene linear, cylindrical, sli<^htly ribbed, with adprcssed hair, 

 pappus white. 



Montane zone, 4000-6000 ft.; rather common, especially abundant on 

 the patanas of Uva. Fl. Feb., March ; purple. 



Also in E. Himalaya, Burma, Nilgiris, Java, China, and Trop. Africa. 

 Whole plant very aromatic when bruised. 



2. Zi. aurita, Ilcnth. ex Clarke^ Camp. hid. 92 (1876). 

 Bluvica balsa/ni/cra, Thw. Enum. 422 (non DC). C. P. 3665. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 271 (not given for Ceylon). 



A perennial herb, stem erect, rather slender, cylindrical, 

 viscous-hairy, with many ascending branches ; 1. numerous, 

 sessile, very slightly decurrent, 2-4 in. on the main stem, very 

 much smaller often bract-like on the branches, obovate- 

 oblong, subacute, much and coarsely dentate or semi-pinna- 

 tifid, usually auriculate at base, viscous-hairy on both sides; 

 heads small, stalked, erect, in small cymes terminating short 

 lat. branches, inv.-scales linear, very acute, outer silky-hairy, 

 inner longer, scarious ; achene linear, pappus white. 



Dry region ; apparently very rare. I have seen only the C. P. speci- 

 mens collected by (ilenie at Trincomalie in 1862. Fl. IVlarch. 



Throughout Peninsular India and in Burma, also in 'Irop. Africa. 



Probably elsewhere in the dry sandy regions, but overlooked. It has 

 a strong camphoraceous smell. 



13. EPAZiTES, Cass. 



Annual, much branched, 1. alt., decurrent, heads small, 

 solitary, terminal ; involucre shallowly campanulate, bracts 

 in several rows, sharply acuminate, receptacle broad, flat, 

 glabrous, all fl. tubular, outer ones very small, female, disk fl. 

 bisexual; anth. -bases sagittate, shortly tailed; style-branches 

 of bisexual fl. subulate ; achene oblong, cylindrical, ribbed, 

 pappus o. — Sp. 9; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



E. divaricata, Cass. Bull. Philoni. 139 (18 iS). Hin-muda- 

 mahana, .V. 



Herm. Mus. 26. Burm. Thes. 61. Fl. Zeyl. n. 420 {En'geroides). 

 Ethtilia divat tenia, L., Moon Cat. 57. Thw. Enum. 164. C. P. 234. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 274. Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 58, f. i (poor). Plak. Phyt. t. 

 160, f. 5. 



Annual, 2-12 in. high, main stem usually short, erect, with 

 numerous very long, divaricate, straggling branches, winged, 

 glabrous or very slightly hairy; 1. 'l-\\ in., sessile, strap- 

 shaped, tapering to decurrent base, obtuse, sparingly denti- 

 culate, glabrous ; heads terminating short, winged branchlets, 

 about ^ in. diam., depressed globose, inv. -bracts lanceolate. 



