Composite. ^45 



In sholas on both plateaus, flowering during the early 

 months of the year. Nilgiris : Ootacamund to Coonoor. 

 Pulneys : near Kodaikanal and down to Shembaganur. Fpo7i 

 2550. Bourne 1572. 



Scnccio cofymbosus Wall,, Cat. 3121 ! ; F.B.I, iii 351, 

 LXXIX 45. A climber similar to vS. araneosiis but leaves 

 white-tomentose underneath. Stem zigzag, slender, 

 ribbed but not angled, cottony. No stipules. Leaf- 

 stalks I inch ; blade I to 2 inches, ovate to circular, acute, 

 deeply cordate : margin with a few small teeth : under- 

 side covered with dense white tomentum ; upperside 

 glabrous except for an easily removed cotton. Flower- 

 heads numerous, in terminal or axillary peduncled 

 rounded panicles with very tomentose branches : bracts 

 /^ to J^ inch, lanceolate ovate or leafy. Involucral 

 bracts eight, ^ inch, glabrescent. Achenes glabrous. 

 Wight Ic. t. 1 130. 



Nilgiris : on the downs near Ootacamund and down to 

 Pykara. Flowers from December to March. Pulneys : Kodai- 

 kanal, etc. Fyson 1544, 1064, 1049, 2210. Bourne. Collected 

 by Rangachari at Pykara, (?) 11 18. 



Bourne 11 18 leads one to suspect that S. corymbosus and S. araneosus 

 are one and the same. 



Scnccio wightianus DC. ; Herb. Wight Prop. 1480 !, 

 including S. intermedins Wight ; F.B.I, //w^^'r S. scandens 

 Don, iii 352; LXXIX 47.'"' A slender weak-stemmed 

 plant climbing or growing gregariously in clumps or 

 bushes 3 to 4 feet high and more wide, with stalked 

 hastate toothed leaves, not white below, and terminal 

 corymbs of small flower-heads. 



Stem slender, strongly (about ten) ribbed. Stipules 

 semi-lunar, ^ to ^ inch. Leaves simple or of three leaf- 

 lets: stalk Yz to li inch. Lateral leaflets if present 

 opposite, YzhyM inch, obovate deltoid or oblanceolate ; 

 terminal leaflet triangular or hastate, l^ to 2 by Yz to 

 I inch (at base), sharply and irregularly dentate, glabrous 



