48 Conipositce. {Senecw. 



ZT,. SEIfECZO, L. 



Perennial herbs or shrubs, often scandent, 1. alt., heads 



rather small, in corymbose cymes; inv.-bracts in one row, 



few, erect, narrow, sometimes connate, often with a few short 



filiform ones at base, receptacle flat, smooth, ray-fl. fem., 



ligulate, disk-fl. tubular, bisexual ; anth.-bases rounded or 



tailed; style-arms of bisexual fl. truncate, recurved ; achene 



narrow, terete or compressed, ribbed, smooth or hairy, pappus 



hairs copious, white or yellowish. — Sp. about 900; 63 in lU. 



B. Ind. 



Erect; anth.-bases obtuse. 



L. linear, entire, margin revolute . . . . i. S. GRACILIS. 



L. linear, dentate-serrate, margin not revolute . 2. S. Gardneki. 



L. oval or oblong, more or less pinnatifid . . 3. S. ludens. 

 Climbing ; anth.-bases tailed. 

 L. simple, stalked, cordate. 



L. cottony, ultimately glabrous . . . , 4. S. Walkeri. 



L. permanently tomentose beneath . . . 5. S. corvmbosus. 



L. pinnate, sessile, with auricles . . . . 6. S. sc.andens. 



1. S. gracilis, Ar7t. Pug. 31 (1836). 



5". zeylajiicus, DC. Prod. vi. 365. Thw. Enum. 167. C. P. 1749. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 340 {S. seylanicus). 



Perennial, stem 1-2 ft., erect, slender, glabrous or slightly 

 cottony, almost unbranched ; 1. few, sessile, 2-4 in., oblong- 

 linear, slightly widened at base, acute, entire, margin strongly 

 revolute, glabrous or slightly cottony above, cottony beneath, 

 midrib very thick and prominent beneath; heads solitary, 

 rather small, \ in. diam., on long slender erect peduncles in a 

 very lax infl., involucre ovoid-oblong, bracts linear, acuminate, 

 acute, connate except at top, glabrous, ray-fl. about 12, 

 cor. very slightly 3-toothed; achene finely ribbed, glabrous, 

 pappus white. 



On patanas in upper montane zone ; rather common. Fl. April, 

 November; lemon-yellow. 



Also in the Pulni Hills, S. India. 



2. S. G-ardneri, Clarke., Comp. Itid. 202 (1876). 

 Doronicuin Gardncri., Thw. Enum. 167. C. P. 435. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 343. 



Perennial, stem glabrous ; 1. numerous, crowded, sessile, 

 1J-3 in., linear, much tapering to base, acute, coarsely 

 dentate-serrate, glabrous, jialcr beneath ; heads small on long 

 peduncles in a very lax terminal infl., involucre short, cup- 

 shaped, bracts linear, glabrous ; achene densely pilose, whitish- 

 grey, pappus yellowish. 



