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regular, tubular, with a slightly enlarged or campanulate 5-ficl limb. 

 Anther-bases sagittate ; auricles subcaudate. Style-arms of g tlowers 

 liuear, stout, obtuse. Tertile achenes compressed, black, the outer or 

 both faces with a ciliate rib, the margins ciliate. Pappus, palese or 

 bristles unequal or with 2-3 stronger ones at the angles, or U in the 

 sterile achenes. — Distmb. Species 3, of which 2 are Indian, the third 

 African. 



1. Blepharispermum subsessile, DC. in Wight, Contrib. (1S34) 

 p. 12. Shrubby, ei-ect, 3 ft. high ; rootstock woody ; branches terete, 

 striate, glabrous. Leaves subsessile, 2-5 by 1-2^ in., ovate or elliptic, 

 obtuse or subacute, coriaceous, entire (rarely toothed), reticulately veined, 

 glabrous. Heads 5-10-flowered, in large terminal globose clusters 1-1^ 

 in. in diam., with broad leafy bracts at the base ; 5 flowers in each head 

 2, with a few bristles as pappus and compressed obovoid achenes which 

 are almost villous with long hairs ; ^ flowers in each head 3-8, with 

 similar pappus and smaller achenes. Y\. B. I. v. 3, p. 276 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 96; Wight, Icon, t. 1093; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 98 ; Woodr. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648. LeucoUepharis subsessile, 

 Arn. in Mag. Zool. & Bot. v. 2 (1838) p. 422 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 123. 

 — i'lowers: Aug.-Sept. 



Deccan : Ivartriz Gliat near Poona, Bkiva ! S. M. Country : common about 

 Dliarwar, Law ex Grahcuyi; Dharwai-, Woodrow ; Belgaum, Stocks], Ritchie, 415! 

 Kanaka: Law I, Stocks'. — Distrib. India, W, Peninsula. 



Anaphalis cutchica, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. (187fi) p. Ill, is given by Woodrow 

 in h's list as occurring at Barda, Katbiawar. I bave not seen any specimens from tbat 

 locality. Mr. C. B. Clarke, in a recent MS. note to bis original description of tlie species 

 (Comp. Ind. 1. c), expresses a doubt as to tbe correctness of bis identification of the plant 

 as an Anaiyhcdis, while a similar doubt is expressed by Sir Josepb Hooker (FI. B. 1. v. 

 3, p. 284). There is but a single sheet of tbe species in Herb. Kew., tbe specimens on 

 which are insufficient to accurately determine tbe point. They were collected by 

 Dr. Stoliezka in Kutch. 



20. LASIOPOGON, Cass. 



Small annual much-branched densely woolly herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 small, quite entire. Heads small, in crowded clusters, heterogamous, 

 disciform; outer flowers $, fertile, 2- oo - seriate ; disk-flowers 5, few 

 or many, fertile. Involucre campanulate ; bracts few-seriate, the inner 

 narrow, scarious, subhyaline, the outer shorter, subherbaceous, woolly 

 on the back. Eeceptacle small, naked. Corollas of $ flowers filiform, 

 minutely dentate, those of ^ flowers regular, slender, tubular, the limb 

 slightly enlarged, 3-toothed. Anther-bases sagittate, with slender 

 tails. Style-arms of ^ flowers slender, truncate. Pappus-hairs sepa- 

 rately caducous, feathery. Achenes subfusiforra. — Distkib. Africa and 

 Orient : species 2. 



1. Lasiopogon lanatum, Gas's, in Diet. Sc. Nat. v. 25 (1822) 

 p. 302. A small plant 1-2 in. in diam., looking like a cluster of cottony 

 balls on the ground, the leaves and flowers being hidden by the woolly 

 covering ; branches many from the root, terete, filiform, prostrate. 

 Leaves y^-\ in. long, linear-oblong or spathulate, woolly. Heads 

 about I in. long, in globose villous clusters subtended by floral leaves. 



