Etnilia.] Composite. 45 



3. G-. hispida, Thw. Eniim. 166 (i860). 



Clarke, Comp. Ind. 172. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 335 {G. pseudo-Ckma, var.). 



Perennial, stem 1-3 ft., stout, fleshy, naked below, and 

 marked with scars of fallen 1., hispid with yellow hair, un- 

 branched ; 1. numerous, closely placed on lower part of stem, 

 3-4 in., tapering into obscure petiole, oval-oblong, acute, 

 entire or undulate or sparingly serrate, densely covered with 

 crisp, yellow, bristly hair on both sides ; heads few, 2-6, on 

 long, erect, hispid or glabrous peduncles, rather large, in- 

 volucre campanulate, outer bracts filiform, spreading, inner 

 row lanceolate, acuminate, with broad membranous border, 

 receptacle flat, fl. numerous, exceeding involucre ; achene 

 glabrous, pappus long. 



On rocky places on the patanas of upper montane zone above 6000 ft.; 

 rare. Horton Plains (Thwaites) ; Hakgala (Nock). Fl. May; orange- 

 yellow. 



Endemic. 



This is in Fl. B. Ind. referred as a variety to G. pseudo-China, DC. I 

 have not been able to obtain roots hitherto, and am thus unable to say if 

 it possesses the tuberous rhizomes characteristic of that species; but it 

 does not otherwise greatly resemble it. G. pseudo-China is excellently 

 figured from a cultivated Madras specimen in Dillenius' Hort. Elth. ii. t. 

 258, and is commonly grown here in native gardens under the name of 

 'Ala-bet,' or China-root. Moon (Cat. 57) gives it under the name of 

 Cacalia cathai'tica. Another species is grown in China for its roots — 

 G. atiriculafa, Cass. — which is the G. pseudo-China of Benth. Fl. Hongk. 

 189 (not of DC). 



31. EMIZiZA, Cass. 



Perennial herbs, 1. alt, sessile; heads rather small, on long 



peduncles, involucre cylindrical, bracts about 8 in one row, 



connate to near the top, receptacle flat, naked, fl. numerous, 



all tubular and bisexual ; anth. -bases obtuse; style-arms tipped 



with a conical tuft of hair ; achene ribbed, scabrous on the 



ribs, pappus copious, white. — Sp. 5 ; all in Fl. B. Ind. 



Sagittate upper 1. with acute auricles . . . i. E. SONCHIFOLIA. 

 Sagittate upper 1. with rounded auricles . . . 2. E. zeylanica. 



I. E. sonchifolia, DC. in Wight, Contrib. 24 (1834). Itadu- 

 para, S. 



Herm. Mus. 32. Burm. Thes. 61. Fl. Zeyl. n. 305. Cacalia sonchi- 

 folia, L. Sp. PI. 835. Moon Cat. 57. Thw. Enum. 167. C. P. 3343- 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 336. Rheede, Hort. Malab. x. t. 68. 



Stems prostrate or decumbent at base often rooting, then 

 erect, much branched, glabrous ; 1. \\-2 in., on the barren 

 shoots somewhat lyrate, with the upper half ovate, and the 



