LXXI. COMPOSIT.E. 2 I 



1. Nanothatnnus sericeus, Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 9 

 (18G7) p. 342, t. 3. A prostrate or suberect and ascending herb ; 

 brandies many from the root, 6-12 in. long, pubescent. Leaves 1-3^ 

 by 5-| in. (the uppermost cauliue leaves often smaller), subsessile, the 

 lower leaves usually oblanceolate, the upper lanceolate, all acutely and 

 irregularly toothed, densely woolly on both sides, strongly nerved. 

 Heads | in. in diam., in dense clusters. 



The buds at the crown of the root often form globose woolly bodies 

 as in Blumea Maholmii. In habit and general appearance the plant bears 

 some resemblance {o Blumea oxyodonta. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 273; C. B. 

 Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 96; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 648. — Flowers : JFeb.-Apr, 



Konkan: on the hills, Balzelll, Law'. Deccan, Lanoli, Woodrow; Igatpuri, 

 Kanitkar !, Cooke ! — Distrib. Apparently endemic. 



17. EPALTES, Cass. 



Erect or diffuse herbs. Leaves alternate, usually decurrent. Heads 

 small, solitary or corymbose, heterogamous, disciform ; outer flowers 

 00 - seriate, $ , fertile ; disk-flowers few, ^ , usually sterile. Involucre 

 ovoid, campanulate or hemispheric ; bracts go - seriate, imbricate, dry, 

 rigid, usually broad. Eeceptacle flat, convex or raised, naked. Corollas 

 of 2 flowers shorter than their styles, filiform, 2-3-toothed, those of 

 the ^ flowers regular, tubular, with a 3-5-fid limb. Anther-bases 

 sagittate, the auricles small, connate, minutely caudate-acuminate. 

 Style of ^ flowers subulate, entire or 2-fid. Achenes of $ flowers sub- 

 terete, 5-10-ribbed, without pappus, the achenes of ^ flowers usually 

 abortive, with a pappus of 2-3 hairs caducous, or 0. — Disteib. Tropical 

 Asia, Africa, America, and Australia ; species about 9. 



1. Epaltes divaricata, Cass, in Bull. Soc. PJiilom. (1818) p. 139. 

 A small nearly glabrous annual, 3-8 in. high ; main stem usually short, 

 erect, with numerous long divaricate straggling winged branches. 

 Leaves sessile, 1-21 by g-| in., linear-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, entire 

 or distantly toothed, narrowed at the base, decurrent. Heads solitary, 

 |-5 in. in diam., terminating short winged branchlets (peduncles?); 

 flowers purple. Invol.-bracts lanceolate, rigid, sharply acuminate, the 

 outer short, somewhat spreading. The g disk-flowers barren. Pappus 0. 

 Achenes scarcely Jq in. long, pale, obovoid-oblong. Fl. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 274 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 126 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 96 (exclud. 

 syn. B. pygmcea) ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 24 ; "Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 648.— Flowers : Oct.-Jan. 



A common weed in damp places. Konkan : Law ! ; S. Konkan, liitchie, ■^^-^ ! ; 

 Malwiin, Woodrow; Mazgaon, near Savantradi in rice-fields, Conkel; Sanganeshyar, 

 Kanitkar \ S. M. Country : Gunji,S. of Belgaum, ^/z'c/ife,—;:;- ! Kanaka: Thomson\; 

 Kala naddi, Bitchie, 411! — Distrib. India (Birma, W. Peninsula); Ceylon, Java, 

 China. 



18. SPH-ffiRANTHUS, Linn. 



Divaricately-branched herbs. Leaves alternate, toothed, decurrent 

 along the stem. Heads small, very numerous, sessile, crowded on a 

 large common receptacle into more or less globose terminal compound 



