26 LXXI. COMPOSIT.E. 



Gujarat : Dhej, Bahell, 52 ! ; Dangs, Woodrow, Sind : Vicary ! ; Siud hills, 

 Dalzelll — DiSTiuB. India (Panj.ib) ; Belucbistan. 



,3. Pluchea lanceolata, C. B. Clarice, Comp. Tad. (187G) p. 94. An 

 erect undershrub ; stem and branches terete, slender, softly ashy-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves sessile, very coriaceous, 1-2 j by ^-g in., oblong or 

 oblanceolate, obtuse, apiculate, narrowed at the base, finely ashy-pubes- 

 cent on both sides, entire ; main nerves prominent. Heads in compound 

 corymbs. Involucre contracted at the mouth ; outer bracts 2-3-seriate, 

 oblong, very obtuse, pubescent, usually tinged with purple ; the inner- 

 most bracts linear, subacute, few. Pappus-hairs distinctly connate at 

 the base. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 272 ; Oliver & Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. v. 3 

 (1877) p. 329 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, part 1, p. 291. Bcrthelotia 

 lanceolata, DC Prodr. v. 5, p. 37G ; Aitch. Pb. & Siud PI. p. 73. — 

 Flowers : Dec. 



SiND : Vicary ex Aitchison, Dalzell, 431, Stocks, 451!; Eiik Junction near llie 

 Eailway ^tation, Coohe\ — Distrib. India (Panjab, Gangetic plain as far as Cawnpore) ; 

 Afghanistan, N. Africa. 



4. Pluchea arguta, Boiss. Diar/. ser. ii. fasc. 3 (ISoG) p. 5. A 

 stout branched shrub, thick soft and fleshy when near the sea, shrubby 

 and with thin leaves when inland (Dalzell, MS. in Herb. Kevv.), the 

 upper parts glandular-pubescent. Leaves sessile, 1-2 in. long, varying 

 much in breadth (from ^-| in.), obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, some- 

 times inciso-pinnatifid, glandular-pubescent, acutely serrate or dentate, 

 narrowed at the base. Heads peduncled, subsolitary, ^-g in. in diam. 

 Invol.-bracts rigid, co - seriate, the outer very small, narrowly lanceolate- 

 subulate, pubescent and ciliate, those o£ the intermediate rows similar 

 but longer, the innermost elongate, linear, acute, pubescent and ciliate 

 at the tip. Receptacle naked. Pa,ppus-hairs slender, shortly barbellate. 

 Achenes with a few appressed hairs, cylindric, slightly ribbed. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 3, p. 273; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648. 

 Plvcliea frutescens, Benth. in Hook. Icon. PI. v. 12, t. "1157. Laggera 

 arida, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 92. — Flowers : Jan.- Feb. 



In the Bombay Presidency confined to Sind. Sind : Bahell, 8 !, Slocks, 553 ! ; 

 I3oogta hills, Vicary \; Mulir district, Bhola Puranl; Karachi, Vicary] — Distrib. 

 India (Panjab) ; Beluchistan. 



IG. NANOTHAMNUS, T. Thorns. 



A rigid woolly often decumbent herb. Leaves alternate, acutely 

 serrate-dentate. Heads small, subsessile, subterminal and axillary, 

 heterogamous, disciform ; outer flowers 1-4 (rarely 0) 5 ? fertile ; disk 

 flowers ^ , few, fertile. Involucre ovoid ; bracts oo - seriate, imbricate, 

 lanceolate, dry, the interior subscarious, the exterior gradually shorter, 

 hispid on the back. Receptacle flat, naked. Corollas of the $ flowers 

 filiform, 2-3-toothed, those of the ^ flowers with a slender tube, the 

 limb campanulate, sub-2-lipped, the outer lip 4-lobed, the inner free to 

 the base of the limb. Anther-bases sagittate, the auricles mucronate or 

 shortly tailed. Style-arms of ^ flowers filiform. Pappus or a 

 minutely 5-toothed crown. Achenes obovoid.with 5-8 slender ribs, the 

 tip rounded. — Distkib. Appareiilly endemic in thcBomhny Presidency ; 

 species 1. 



