34 Composite. {Chtysogonmtt, 



Lagascea moll is, Cav., a native of Central America, occurs as a weed 

 about Kandy and other places, having probably originated from the 

 Botanic (iardens, where it is very abundant. 



Carpesiuin cernuuin, L. In many places on Horton Plains in iSga 

 I suspect this to be merely an introduction, as it is a conspicuous plant, 

 but has never been previously recorded from our hills. The fruits may 

 easily have been imported with railway material for the line then in 

 course of construction across Horton Plains to Haputale. It, however, 

 appears to pass muster as a native in the Nilgiris, and is figured (as C. 

 ne'palciise) in Wight, Ic. t. 1120. It has a very wide distribution over the 

 temperate portions of Asia. 



19. CKRVSOGONUIME, L. 



Perennial herb, 1. opp. ; heads solirary, axillary or ap- 

 parently terminal, inv.-bracts few, outer ones leafy, receptacle 

 flat, ray-fl. few (usually 6), ligulate, female, disk-fl. numerous, 

 tubular, bisexual (but barren), each with a paleaceous bract at 

 the base; anth.-bases obtuse; style of ray-fl. short, recurved, 

 tapering, 2-branched, of disk-fl. undivided, pubescent below; 

 achene oblong-ovoid, compressed, edge acute, pappus o. — 

 Sp. 6 ; 2 in Fl. B. Ind. 



C. heterophyllum, Clarke, Coiiip. Ind. 132 (1876). 

 JMoonia''' licteropliylla, Arn. Pug. 31. Thw. Enum. 134. C. P. 34, 

 1758. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 303. 



Perennial, sometimes semi -woody at base, very much 

 branched, stems cylindrical, glabrous or slightly hairy es- 

 pecially at the thickened nodes, usually purple; 1. opp., 1-3^ 

 in., very variable, sometimes ovate-oval and deeply crenate- 

 serrate but usually triangular in outline, very deeply pinnati- 

 sect with 2 pair of opp. segm. and a terminal one, acute, 

 deeply serrate, nearly glabrous, thin, petiole long, dilated and 

 stem-clasping, with narrow leafy border, channelled above, 

 sometimes slightly hairy; heads \ in., peduncles long, solitary, 

 involucre cup-shaped, bracts in 2 rows of usually 6 in each, 

 outer row leafy, spreading, oblong, inner erect, ovate, papery, 

 ray-fl. 6, each against a bract, cor. flat, as broad as long, 

 deeply 3-lobed; achene glabrous, with a somewhat truncate 

 often tubercular crown, brown. 



In damp shady places in the upper montane zone; very common. 

 Fl. all the year; bright golden yellow; anth. black. 

 Also in mountains of S. India. 



* Commemorates Ale.vander Moon, Superintendent of the Ceyloa 

 Botanic Gardens from 18 16 till his death in 1825, and author of 'Cata- 

 logue of Plants of Ceylon,' published in 1824. 



