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with membranous margins, receptacle flat, naked, fl. all 



tubular and bisexual (fertile) ; cor. long, slender, 5-fid ; anth.- 



bases obtuse, style-branches long, blunt or truncate, often 



tufted with hair at end ; achene long, finely ribbed, pappus 



copious, hairs fine, long, white. — Sp. 5 ; 3 in Fl. B. Iiid. 



L. very obtuse . . . .1. N. grandiflora. 

 L. acuminate, acute . . .2. N. Walkeri. 



1. N. g-randiflora, DC. in Wiqht, Cotitrib. 24 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 168. C. P. 1743. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 336. Wight, Ic. t. 484. {N. coryjnbosa). 



A semi-shrubby perennial, 2-6 ft., stems cylindrical, fleshy, 

 scarcely branched, marked with scars of fallen 1., very glabrous 

 and covered with a white easily detached 'bloom,' pale green; 

 1. 2^-5 in., oval-oblong, tapering to base, rounded at apex, 

 entire, glabrous, pale glaucous-green especially beneath, and 

 often covered with white ' bloom,' rather fleshy, petiole short, 

 stout ; heads solitary, few, large, nodding, terminating long 

 divaricate branches of the large very lax spreading infl., 

 peduncles glabrous, with scattered leafy bracts, involucre f in. 

 long, narrowly oblong-cylindrical, bracts about 8, connate 

 except at ends, glabrous, very pale green or purplish, fl. 

 numerous, much exserted, style branches very long; achene 

 linear, ~ in., glabrous. 



Dry region, on the coast; very rare. Batticaloa; Trincomalie ; 

 Karativu, Kalpitiya. Fl. Jan.-March, August; greenish-white, styles 

 yellow. 



Also in S. India. 



Often grown in gardens. 



2. N. Walkeri, Clarke, Comp. Ind. 176 (1876). 



Senecio Walkeri, Thw. Enum. 167. Wight, Ic. iii. pt. 4, ir. C. P. 



533. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. "^yj. Wight, Ic. t. 1122 {Gynura Walkert). 



A shrub, 6~J ft., stems softly woody at base and marked 

 with scars of fallen 1., cylindrical, glabrous, scarcely branched ; 

 1. rather closely placed on upper part of stem, 4-5 in., tapering 

 into long petiole, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, serrate or 

 crenate, glabrous, rather thick; heads numerous, moderate- 

 sized, stalked, forming a very large loose corymbose infl., 

 peduncles glabrous, with linear bracts, involucre cylindrical, 

 bracts glabrous, linear; fl. not numerous; achene slightly 

 compressed, finely hairy on the ribs. 



Upper montane zone; rare. Nuwara Eliya; Horton Plains; summit 

 of Wattekelle Hill (Ferguson). Fl. Sept., bet., April; pale yellow or 

 nearly white. 



Also in the Nilgiris. 



