240 COMPOSITiE. 



but distinguished from SENECIO and also from NOTONIA 



and EMILIA by the stylar arms being hairy, slender, 



and tapering to a fine point. 



Species about 20 in the warm parts of Asia, Africa and 

 Australia. 



Gynura nitida DC ; Wight's Herb. Prop. ; F.B.L 

 iii 333, LXXVI I. Herb, 2 to 5 feet, glabrous except near 

 the flower-heads. Leaves mostly towards the base of 

 the stem or branches, obovate or oblanceolate, coarsely 

 toothed or serrate, acute or obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 or very broad and almost auricled. Heads few or many, 

 in terminal simple or compound corymbs, often umbel- 

 late : involucral bracts purple, narrow, glabrous. Florets 

 yellow, achenes papillose between the five ribs. Wight 

 Ic. t. II2I. 



Nilgiris and Pulneys. Flowers in August and September. 

 Fyson 479. Bourne^ 320. 



EMILIA. F.B.I. Lxxvii. 



Herbs with alternate leaves and small solitary purple 

 flower-heads, with involucral bracts of the SENECIO type 

 and similar to GYNURA but without small extra bracts 

 below the flower-head, and stylar arms truncate. Pappus 

 hairs long, copious. 



Species 4 or 5 in India and tropical Africa. 



Emilia sonchifolia Wight; Herb- Prop, i486!; F.B.L 

 iii 336, as of DC, LXXVII I. A herb, when young with 

 leaves mostly near the ground and short flowering stems ; 

 when older, 2 to 3 feet, erect or decumbent, leafy except 

 near the flowers. Radical leaves pinnatifid or lyrate with 

 end lobe largest : upper leaves oblong, stem-clasping, 

 serrate : all more or less scabrid. Heads on long slender 

 stalks, purple. Stylar arms truncate, achenes five- 

 ribbed, hairy on the ribs and papillose between them. 

 Wight let. 1 123. 



