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6 CompOsitCE. [Eclipta. 



(usually lo), viscous, the 5 outer ones long leafy horizontally 

 spreading, 5 inner wrapped round ray-fl., receptacle small, fl. 

 few, ray-fl. (usually 5) ligulate, female, disk-fl. (usually about 9) 

 tubular, bisexual, each enclosed in boat-shaped membranous 

 bractlct; anth. -bases obtuse, entire; style-arms of bisexual fl. 

 short, acute, flattened; achene not compressed, cuneate, often 

 curved, truncate, pappus o. — Sp. 2, i in Fl. B. Ind. 



S. orientalis, L. Sp. PL 900 (1753). 



Moon Cat. 58. Thw. Enum. 164. C. P. 1752. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 304. Wight, Ic. t. 1103. 



A large annual herb, 2-4 ft., stem stiff, erect, with opp. 

 horizontal branches below and dichotomously branched above, 

 finely pubescent, purple ; 1. opp., 2-4 in., oval-triangular, on 

 short petioles, shortly tapering at base, acuminate, acute, 

 deeply and irregularly laciniate-serrate, densely and finely 

 pubescent on both sides, pale yellowish-green, the uppermost 

 much smaller and nearly entire; heads small, pedunculate, 

 subglobose, solitary in the forks of the very large lax dichoto- 

 mous-corymbose infl., inv.-bracts very dissimilar, five outer 

 over \ in., linear-spathulate or club-shaped at end, horizontally 

 spreading, with recurved margins, upper surface set with 

 numerous large extremely viscous glandular hairs, five inner 

 short, boat-shaped, obtuse, similarly glandular on back, ray-fl. 

 very short, recurved, 3-toothed ; achenes each enclosed in a 

 boat-shaped bractlct, glabrous, slightly rough, black. 



In waste places by roadsides, &c. ; common at all elevations. Fl. 

 Oct., Nov., &c. ; yellow, the ray-fl. red beneath. 



In all warm countries. 



This has the look of an introduced weed. All the bracts are per- 

 sistent in the fruit, and each achene when it falls is closely enwrapped 

 in one which is more or less glandular on the back and top. There are 

 no glandular hairs on any other part of the plant than the bracts. 



22. ECIiZPTA, L. 



Annual, 1. opp. ; heads small axillary, involucre cup- 

 shaped, bracts few leafy, receptacle flat with filiform persist- 

 ent bractlets to the fl., fl. numerous, ray-fl. in 2 rows, ligulate, 

 female (often barren), disk-fl. tubular, bisexual ; anth.-bases 

 oDtuse, style-arms short, slightly flattened; achenes oblong, 

 compressed, 4-angled, truncate, pappus o. — Sp. 3 or 4 ; i in 

 Fl. B. J;;d. 



