38 CompositcB. [IVcdelm. 



membranous, rigid, pectinate at truncate apex, pubescent, 

 persistent after fall of the fruit ; ray-fl. very short and in- 

 conspicuous, not spreading-, bifid ; achene hispid, dark brown. 



A weed by roadsides and in waste ground in low country; common. 

 Fl. July-Oct.; white. 



Throughout the Tropics. 



A coarse, tough weed, which has the look of an introduced plant. 

 There is a specimen of this in Hermann's Herb., which Linnteus, how- 

 ever, refers to Fl. Zeyl. n. 309 {Spilmithiis Acnielld). Moon gi\es as the 

 S. name, 'Agada.' 



24. "WEDEZiZA, Jacq. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs, 1. opp. ; heads rather large, 

 solitary, axillary and terminal, involucre campanulate-cup- 

 shaped, bracts few, leafy, receptacle small, flat or convex, 

 with a concave bractlet to each fl., ray-fl. few, ligulate, female, 

 disk-fl. numerous, tubular, bisexual ; anth.-bases triangular, 

 style-arms acute; achenes truncate, cuneate, pappus o or a ring 

 or crown of scales. — Sp. 45 ; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Procumbent herb; heads f in. diam. . . .1. W. c.\LENDULACEA. 

 Semi-scandent shrub ; heads over i in. diam. . 2. W. biflora. 



I. W. calendulacea, Less. Sytt. 222 (1832). Ran-wan- 

 kikirindi, 6'. 



Herm. Mus. 12. Burm. Thes. 52. Fl. Zeyl. n. 311. Vcrbesina 

 calendulacea, I.., Moon Cat. 58. Thw. Enum. 165. C. P. 1756. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 306. Burm. Thes. t. 22, i. i. Wight, Ic. t. 1107. 



A perennial herb, stem short, procumbent at base and 

 rooting at the nodes, then ascending, cylindrical, slightly 

 rough with adpressed hair; I. few, opp., nearly sessile, oblong- 

 strai:)-shapcd or oblong-oval, tapering to base, acute, sparingly 

 and shaliowly serrate or entire, slightly rough with adpressed 

 hair on both sides ; heads few, on very long, erect, axillary 

 (apparently terminal) peduncles, about f in. diam., bracts few 

 (5-8), § in., leafy, oblong, obtuse, inner 2 or 3 much smaller, 

 receptacle flat, with a linear, acute, h}aline, ciliate bractlet to 

 each fl., ray-fl. 8-12, spreading, about equalling bracts, broad, 

 deeply 2-3-toothed, disk-fl. about 20, short, narrowed at base, 

 deeply 5-fid, style-branches long, acute, recurved ; achene 

 nearly cylindrical, pubescent, shorter than bractlet, crowned 

 with a shallow ring of short, scarious, ciliate scales. 



Damp grassy places up to 4000 ft.; common. Fl. October-February; 

 yellow. 



Also in India, Malaya, China, Japan. 



Has no scent or taste, but is employed as an alterative in Sinhalese 

 medicine. 



