Senea'o.] CompOsitcE. 49 



Lower montane zone ; very rare. Adam's Peak (Gardner) ; Ambaga- 

 muwa (Thwaites). Fl. March ; yellow. 

 Endemic. 



3. S. ludens, Clarke, Comp. hid. 199 (1876). 



Doroniciim IValken, Arn. Pug. 32. Thw. Enum. 167. C. P. 151. 



FI. B. Ind. iii. 345. 



Perennial, 6 in.-2 ft., stem erect, scarcely branched, cylin- 

 drical, roughly hairy, often purple; 1. rather numerous, very 

 variable even on the same plant, 1-6 in., the lower stalked, 

 the upper sessile, oval or oblong, more or less dentate, or 

 lacerate, or pinnatifid, or even pinnate, acute, often auriculate 

 at base, more or less rough with harsh hairs on both sides, 

 rather fleshy, often purple beneath; heads numerous or few, 

 on long erect peduncles with scattered linear bracts, about 

 f in. diam., involucre short, campanulate, bracts connate, 

 acuminate and purple at ends, glabrous, ray-fl. usually 8, 

 spreading, cor. limb oval-oblong, minutely 3-toothed ; achene 

 oblong, 4-ribbed, ribs hispid with white bristles, pappus short, 

 pale brown. 



On the patanas, especially in damp places, montane region above 

 4000 ft.; very common. Abundant on summit of Adam's Peak, also in 

 Concan, S. India. Fl. October-March ; bright yellow. 



An extremely variable plant in foliage and habit. In dry places it has 

 a very slender, erect stem, with only 2 or 3 heads. 



4. S. Walkeri, Arft. Pug. 31 (1836). 



DC. Prod. vi. 364. S. araneosits.^ var. Walkeri, Clarke, Comp. Ind. 182. 

 S. corymbosus, var., Thw. Enum. 167, 422 (non Wall.). C. P. 272, 565. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 351 {S. araneosus). Wight, Ic. t. 1131. 



A semi-shrubby climber, stems slender, flexuose, usually 

 pubescent and slightly cottony; 1. numerous, 1^-3 in., nearly 

 as broad as long, deeply cordate at base, acute, irregularly 

 denticulate, usually cottony on both sides when young, but 

 becoming glabrous at least on upper side when mature, finely 

 reticulate, veins pellucid, petiole i-ij in., prehensile; heads 

 very numerous, small, shortly stalked, in corymbose clusters 

 at ends of branches of rounded axillary and terminal stalked 

 paniculate infl., inv.-bracts few, oval-oblong, acute, glabrous, 

 fl. few, style-arms long and much exserted, circinately curved; 

 achene glabrous, pappus yellowish-white. 



Montane zone up to 7000 ft.; rather common. Fl. Jan., Feb. ; white. 

 Also in the Himalayas, Nilgiris, and in Java. 

 _ S. araneosus, DC, is, doubtless, the same, but Arnott's name has 

 priority. Walker's original specimens have the adult 1. quite glabrous, 

 and thus agree with C. P. 565. 



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