COMPOSITE. 237 



5^ inch shortly petioled. Flowering portion of plant 

 cymosely forked; ultimate peduncles I to 2^ inches 

 stout : bracts V^ inch. Involucral bracts with broad 

 scarious margins. Ray florets yellow or white. Achenes 

 black narrow, angled, exceeding the involucres and 

 surmounted by two awns with many downward pointing 

 barbs, t. 169. 



A wayside weed. Nilgiris : Ootacamund and lower levels. 

 Pulneys : Kodaikanal down to the plains. Fyson 580, 700.-^ 

 Bourne 1565. 



Gen. Dist. Throughout India and in all warm countries. Fr. Bident, 

 Gei\ Zweizahu. 



Bidens humilis, H. B. & K.; LX 4 ; trailing Bur-mari- 

 gold. Stems weak, spreading. Leaves finely pinnately 

 dissected into narrow segments or leaflets. Rays few 

 spreading, ^ inch, conspicuous. Achenes black with 

 two very short, barbed awns. t. 170. 



Road-sides in Ootacamund common, conspicuous in 

 December. Not collected on Pulneys. 



An introduction from the highlands of tropical America. 

 Fpo7i 2039, 3034. Bourne \<^() a/' . 



GALINSOGA. f.b.i. 78 lxii.^ 



Annual herbs with opposite leaves and small flower- 

 heads of the HELIANTHOIDE^ (p. 209), with yellow 

 rays : all the florets fertile : floral scales boat-shaped : 

 achenes angled or compressed, surmounted by a few 

 scarious entire awned or fimbriate scales. 

 Species 5, in tropical America. 



Galinsoga parviflora Cav. ; F.B.I. iii 311, LXIF i. A 

 small weed with opposite three-nerved leaves and rather 

 few flower-heads on slender stalks of unequal length. 



Annual 6 to 20 inches, nearly glabrous, except in the 

 youngest parts, cymosely branched upwards. Leaves 

 shortly stalked, ovate, acute or acuminate, sub-serrate, 

 three-nerved from the base : uppermost leaves narrow, 



