^04 blPSACACe.^. 



terminal one not much larger. Fruit glabrous, in fairly 

 compact not very loose corymbs. 



Pulneys : on road to Poombari. Bourne 997,"^ 99^5 2685, 



DIPSACACE/E. 



Teasel and Scabious- 

 Herbs with opposite leaves, and flowers with inferior 

 ovaries small and usually aggregated into heads with 

 bracts below much as in COMPOSITE ; but the stamens 

 free of each other (never united by their anthers) and 

 the ovule or seed hanging from the top of the ovary not 

 erect and inverted. 



Species about 120 chiefly in the Mediterranean region, 

 western Asia, South Africa, Japan and Ceylon. None in 

 America, Polynesia or Australia. 



In western Europe are two genera — dipsacus, Teasel, 

 Ger. Kardendistel, Fr. Cardere ; and scabiosa, Devils Bit, 

 etc., Ger. Storbuse, Fr. Scabieuse. 



DIPSACUS. F.B.I. 77 III. 



Teasel. 

 Flowers in dense, stalked heads opening along a 

 ring half way between centre and circumference (in 

 COMPOSITE always from the circumference inwards) : 

 bracts between the flowers well developed: calyx- 

 limb or top of ovary hairy but not bristly (distinction 

 from scabiosa) ; ovary four-angled : corolla four-lobed, 

 blue purple white or yellow : stamens four. All European 

 and most Asiatic species with prickly stems and spiny 

 involucral bracts, some Indian species (as ours) not so. 



Species 86 in Europe, Asia, and Africa, especially round the 

 Mediterranean. 



Dipsacus Icschcnaultii Coult. ; F.B.I, iii 215, III 5. 

 A large herb with stout rootstock. Stem annual, 4 feet 

 or higher, hollow, white or greenish leafy from the base 



