246 COMPOSITE. 



on the upper side, pubescent on the under. Corymbs on 

 axillary branches, ten to twenty-flowered : bracts ^ 

 inch linear. Heads Y^ inch : involucral bracts slender. 

 Achenes 1/16 inch. t. 172. Wight Ic. tt. I135 and I136. 



Nilgiris and Pulneys : on the downs, flowering from Sep- 

 tember to December. Fyson 2046, 301. Bourne 2 118. 



Gen. Dist. Also Ceylon. Wight Kew Dist. 1649, 1650, Hohenacker 

 I353> Gardner. 



S. scandens Don., with which this is united by Hooker in F.B.I., is a 

 Nepal plant with larger stipules and larger flower-heads, and appears to me 

 different. Clarke however in his Coju'positce of India^ with MS. revision, 

 united S. candicans DC. also under S. scandens Don. Whether these are 

 all to be considered one species or two or three must largely be a matter of 

 individual opinion, but the name scandens for an Indian senecio cannot 

 stand since Thunbergh had already given it to a South African species, as 

 Cacalia scandens Thunb. in his Plantarufn Capensium^ first edition, 1794. 

 Don's Prodromus Nepalensis was published in 1 825. 



Senecio candicans DC, Wall Cat. 3123 ! ; F.B.I, iii 

 352, LXXIX 48. A climber: whole plant whitish with 

 close or loose tomentum. Stems zigzag, five-angled and 

 ribbed. Stipules Y^ inch, prominent, roundish or ear- 

 shaped. Leaf-stalk ^ inch: blade \Y\ to 2 by ^ to I 

 inch, hastate or triangular with cordate base, acuminate, 

 serrate. Corymbs terminal. Bracts Y\ inch whitish. 

 Ray florets few. Achenes pubescent. Wight Ic. t. II34- 



Nilgiris : near Ootacamund and down to lower levels, 

 common, flowering December. Pulneys : Kodaikanal, etc., 

 flowering July. T^y^t??? 1044, 2013, 2224. B our fie ^* Coonoor." 



CNICUS. F.B.I. 78 LXXXVII. 



Thistle. 



Erect herbs with spiny and spine-toothed leaves often 

 decurrent down the stem, and spiny involucral bracts. 

 Florets all tubular and similar. Anther cells with 

 slender tails. Achenes with feathery pappus. 



Species about 150 in all north temperate climates. 



