IG LXXI. COMPOSIT.i:. 



2. Cyathocline lutea, Laiu ex Wigld, in Calc. Juurn. Nat. Hist. 

 V. 7 (ly47) p, 158. A small herb 4-9 in. high ; stem scai)e-like, very 

 slender. Leaves sessile, glaiidular, |-1|- by yq-^ in., bipiunatifid, 

 mostly radical, forming a stellately spreading rosette ; cauline leaves 

 few, alternate. Heads ^-^- in. in diam., few, in branched corymbose 

 panicles ; flowers bright yellow. Invol. -bracts Jg- in. long, linear-oblong, 

 subobtuse, hairy on the back. Pappus 0. Achenes about -^-^ in. long, 

 smooth, ri. B. I. V. 3, p. 240; Wight, Icon. t. 1150. Cj/athocJine 

 jlava, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 37. C. Laiuii, Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. 

 Fl p. 124 (not of Wight).— Flowers : Oct.-Jan. 



KoNKAx : Lau'] Deccan : Mawal, Woodrow; Kai-li in rice-fields, IVotidroiv I ; 

 Lanoli, very abundant in a marshy place near the roadside, Cooke ! — Distuib. A^jpa- 

 reutlj' endemic. 



10. GRAWGEA, Adans. 



Prostrate or suberect villous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid. 

 Heads subglobose, terminal or leaf-opposed, shortly pediincletl, hetero- 

 gamous ; outer flowers ? , fertile, 1-X) - seriate ; those of the disk ^ , 

 fertile. Involucre broadly campanulate ; bracts few-seriate, slightly 

 unequal, the exterior herbaceous. Eece})tacle convex or conical, naked. 

 Corollas of $ flowers filiform, shorter than the styles, the exterior 2-rul 

 at the apex, the interior sometimes 3-4-fid ; corollas of ^ flowers 

 regular, with a slender tube and a campanulate limb 4-5-fid at the apex. 

 Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of ^ flowers flattened, cuneate, 

 obtuse or with triangular points. Pappus a short tube with fimbriate 

 mouth. Achenes somewhat compressed or subterete, produced at the 

 apex into a cartilaginous ring. — Distrib. Tropical Asia and Africa ; 

 species 3 or 4. 



1. Grangea maderasp atana, Poir. Enajc. IletJiod. Suj)pl. v. 2 

 (1811) p. 825. Annual ; stems many, prostrate, spi*eading from the 

 centre, 4-12 in. long, hairy with soft white hairs. Leaves numerous, 

 sessile, 1-2^ in. long, siuuately pinnatifid with 2-4 pairs of opposite or 

 subopposite lobes smaller towards the base, the terminal lobe the largest, 

 all coarsely serrate-dentate, pubescent on both surfaces. Heads globose, 

 |-^ in. in diam., solitary or 2-nate, on short leaf-o]tpo3ed peduncles ; 

 flowers yellow. Invol. -bracts elliptic, obtuse, rigid, densely pubescent. 

 Pappus a short tube with fimbriate mouth. Achenes glandular, ^ in. 

 long including the pappus-tube. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 247 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 124; Wight, Ico;i. t. 1097; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 73; C. B. 

 Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 37 ; Trim. FI. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 14 ; AV^oodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 047 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, j). 175. 

 — Flowers : Dec-May. 



KoNKAN : Bombay, Laivl; rice-fields, KayiifJcftr] ; Panvel, Knnitknr\ S. ]M. 

 CouNTRV : Dharwar, Z/Aar/ ! ; Y>e]\i;ww, liitchir, -W'll Kanaka: K.ila naddi, 7i'/7(7i/>, 

 412! SiND : Stocls; Sukkur, H'oi'dmu'. — Distuib. Throughout India; Ceylon, 

 Tropical and Subtrojoical Asia and Africa. 



11. ERIGERON, Linn. 



Perennial or annual herbs. Leaves alternate. Heads of flowers 

 solitary or variously corymbose or paniclrd, heterogamous ; ray-flowers 

 2, usually 2-many-seriate, fertile; disli-flowcrs ^, fcilile (rarely- 

 sterile). Involucre hemispheric or camj»anulate ; bracts ^ub-2-seriate, 



