44 Coinposttce. \Gyniira. 



the lower petiolate, the upper sessile, all with a pair of large, 

 auriculate, stipule-like, deeply pinnatisect Ifts. at base, the 

 terminal scgm. very large ovate acute or cordate at base, 

 the lat. ones few very much smaller unequal dentate-serrate, 

 hispid above, more or less pubescent and paler beneath, rather 

 thick and flaccid, uppermost ones nearly entire ; heads on 

 rather long, pubescent, often nodding peduncles with scattered 

 filiform bracts, involucre \-\ in., ovate-oblong, with several 

 short filiform bracts at base, inner bracts adnate except at 

 acuminate ends, receptacle rather concave, fl. very numerous, 

 considerably exceeding involucre ; cor.-segm. obtuse ; style- 

 branches very long, orange ; achene linear-oblong, dark brown, 

 with a few short white hairs in the channels, pappus long. 



.Shady places in the moist region to 6000 ft.; common. FI. April, 

 October; deep orange. 



Also in S. India. 



Very variable, and I feel doubtful whether more than one species is 

 not here included. In the hill-jungles it is a very large stout branched 

 herb, with a hispid purple stem often 6 ft. or more high scrambling up 

 amongst other vegetation ; the flower-heads are larger, more drooping, 

 and handsome, the leaves more hairy, with the terminal lobe or leaflet 

 very large, and the whole plant suffused with purple colouration. This 

 may be G. angulosa^ DC. 



2. G. zeylanica, 7>7ot. [Plate LVIIL] 



G. ncpalc?isis^ Thw. Enum. 166 (non DC). C. P. 3539. 



A coarse biennial (J) herb, stem 2-3 ft., almost woody 

 below, but not tuberous, very stout, striate, closely pubescent, 

 branched at top ; 1, numerous, sessile or nearly so, 5-6 in., 

 variable, pinnatisect, with a pair of large, strongly auriculate, 

 sti]3ule-like segm. at base, and 2 or 3 pair of almost distinct, 

 oblong, acute segm. above, and a large terminal one (in lower 

 1. very much the largest), coarsely serrate, thickly and softly 

 pilose or velvety and whitish on both sides ; heads rather 

 numerous, on short, densely pubescent, nodding peduncles in 

 a sub-corymbose terminal infl., involucre oblong-ovate, with 

 several spreading, filiform, purple bracts beneath, inner bracts 

 pilose, receptacle convex, fl. slightly exceeding involucre ; 

 achene oblong-linear, hispid. 



In chinks of rocks, lower montane zone, 3000-4000 ft.; restricted to 

 Uva Province. Frequent at Etampitiya, Lunugala, Passara, &c.; Gala- 

 gama (Thwaites). FL Jan. -May; bright yellow (not orange). 



This fine plant is undoubtedly near G. iiepalcnsis, to which Thwaites 

 referred it; but the leaves arc more cut and velvety. It is included in 

 FI. B. Ind. under G. psi'iido-Cliina^ DC, which is a much smaller plant 

 with a tul)erous root, nearly glabrous, and with fewer stem-leaves (see 

 under G. /tispuia). 



