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Carpesium cernuum Linn.; F.B.I.ni 300, XLVIII l. 

 Hairy all over. Leaves up to ^ by 3 inches, elliptic or 

 ovate lanceolate, narrowed to the sessile base. Heads 

 J^ to I inch. 



Near Ootacamund and Kodaikanal in several sholas. Bourne 

 1477, 4634,5246. 



The species is very variable and is a common weed in the Himalayas. 

 Gen. Dist. From Caucasus to France, Java, Japan. 



CHRYSOGONUM. f.b.i. 78 l. 



Herbs or undershrubs with opposite toothed or 

 pinnately compound leaves and flower-heads of the 

 HELIANTHOIDE^ (see p. 209), and characterised by 

 having floral scales all over the receptacle : ray florets 

 (without stamens) alone fertile and their achenes flat- 

 tened back and front and embraced by these scales : 

 pappus : very small or : disc florets with stamens and 

 undivided styles, unfertile. 



Species 6, in Australia 3, India 2, America i. 



Chrysogonum hetcrophyllum Benth. ; F.B.I. iii 303, 

 L I. Annual, glabrous 3 to 4 feet. Leaves pinnate or 

 pinnatifid : leaflets or segments ovate-lanceolate acute, 

 sharply serrate or gashed, pilose above, pubescent under- 

 neath. Flower-heads in irregular umbels or corymbs ; 

 ultimate peduncles ^ to 2 inches. Involucral bracts 

 three or more-nerved irregular in length ; outer long and 

 green ; inner shorter. Ray florets white : inner yellow^ 

 Achenes without pappus. Wight Sp. Nilg. t. 1 10. 



Very common round woods on the Pulney and Nilgiri downs. 

 Flowers from March to August. Fyson 3032, 1079,"^ 1441- 

 Bourne 445, 473. 



Gen. Dist. Also Ceylon. 



Chrysogonum arnottianum Benth. ; F.B.I, iii 303, L 2. 

 Similar to the above but leaves larger and flower-heads 



