COMPOSITE. 241 



Somewhat variable, F.B.I, gives three varieties which 

 however grade into each other. 



Very common on the downs. Pulneys and Nilgiris after the 

 summer rains. Fpo7i 3036, 2988. Bo2irne 520, 11 16, 1568,^ 

 1113, 1114, 2704. 



Geji. Dist. Throughout India, Asia and Africa. 



Emilia zcylanica C. B- Clarke ; F.B.L iii 336, LXXVII 



4. Stems or branches to 2 feet, glabrous, slender. 



Leaves entire, narrow, oblong or oblanceolate; upper 



ones with auricled base. Flower-heads few ; bracts J^ 



by 1/16 inch, oblong acute. Stylar arms with enlarged 



tips (cones). Achenes scabrid. Wight Ic. t. II23. 



Pulneys : on the downs. Fyson 285. Bourne 319, 690 

 1115, 2705, 2706. 



Previously known only from Ceylon. 



I have been unable to find Clarke's type sheet, but have seen many 

 others named by him at Kew. My achenes are smooth, but perhaps only 

 so because young. The stylar arms are definitely as Clarke describes, and 

 I have no doubt that my Pulney plant is the same species as his 'from 

 Ceylon, in which case Bourne's plants are also. 



NOTONIA. F.B.I. Lxxviii. 



Succulent herbs or undershrubs with long stalked 

 unrayed flower-heads having involucral bracts of the 

 SENECIO type (p. 242), and in general similar to GYNURA 

 but the stylar arms oblong. 



Species 4 or 5 all Indian. 



Notonia walkcri C. B. Clarke; F.B.L iii 337, 

 LXXVIII 3. A tall herb or shrub, glabrous. Leaves 

 4 to 8 inches, elliptic, acute at both ends, serrate, with 

 stalk dilated at the base. Corymbs terminating leafless 

 continuations of the stem : the ultimate peduncles with 

 several small bracts below the flower-heads : bracts 

 linear 5^ to % inch. Florets all tubular. Achenes five- 

 ribbed, hairy on the ribs. Wight Ic. t. II22 as Gynura. 



Nilgiris : Ootacamund on Club hill. Pulneys. Flowers in 

 winter months. Fy so7i 112^. Bourne 4^22. 

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