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KoNKAN : Law \, Lamhert \ ; Pen, Woodrow; Matlieran, Cooke I Deccan : JVoodrowl 

 S. M. Country : Belgaum hill (north), Ritchie, 408 ! Sind : near the Manchar late, 

 Kanitkarl; Hyderabad, CooJie\ — Distkib. Throughout India and Birma ; Africa, 

 China, Japan, Austi-alia. 



3. Gnaphalium pulvinatum, Delile, Descrijpt. de VEgijpte (1812) 

 p. 266, t. 44. A small prostrate woolly herb ; stems 1-6 in. long, 

 numerous, spreading from the root. Leaves i-| by y^"! ^'^•■> spatbulate, 

 more or less obtuse, mucronate, woolly, attenuated at the base into a 

 short petiole. Heads yV-i ^^- i^ diam., immersed in white wool, crowded 

 in subglobose leafy or involucrate terminal clusters about i in. in diam. 

 Invol.-bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, scarious. Acheues oblong, minutely 

 papillose. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 289 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 648. Gnaplialium crisjxdidum, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 

 p. 115 (not of Delile). — Flowers : Jan.-Feb. 



Deccan : Sinhngad hill near Poona, Woodroiv ; Mawal taluka (Poena districts), in 

 rice-&eld8, Ka nit Aar I Sind: S/oc/is'. — Distrib. Sparingly throughout the plains of 

 India; Egypt. 



22. INULA, Linn. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves radical and alternate. Heads at the 

 ends of the branches, solitary, corymbose, or panicled, heterogamous, 

 rayed (rarely disciform); ray-flowers $, fertile, 1-go - seriate ; disk- 

 flowers ^ , tubular. Involucre hemispheric or campanulate (rarely 

 ovoid) ; bracts oo - seriate, imbricate, the inner usually rigid and narrow, 

 the outer herbaceous, the outermost often foliaceous. Eeceptacle flat 

 or tumid, pitted or areolate. Corollas of $ flowers ligulate, the ligules 

 long, short, or minute, yellow or white, 3-toothed ; corollas of the 

 ^ flowers regular, tubular, yellow, the limb elongate, slightly enlarged, 

 5-toothed. Anther-bases sagittate, with rather small auricles ; tails 

 long, simple or branched. Stjle-arms of ^ flowers linear, slightly 

 flattened, broader upwards, obtuse. Achenes subterete, ribbed. Pappus- 

 hairs few or many, 1-2-seriate, rather short, smooth, scabrid or bearded. 

 — Distrib. Europe, Asia, and Africa ; species about 56. 



1. Inula grantioides, Boiss. Diar/. ser. ii. fasc. 3 (1856) p. 14. 

 Shrubby, perennial, 6-24 in. high, glandular-hairy, much branched ; 

 stem stout, woody ; branches leafy. Leaves 1-2 in. long, variably 

 lobed, the lower leaves petioled, cuueate, shortly 3-lobed, the upper 

 sessile, linear, entire or 2-3-toothed at the apex, all fleshy, glandular and 

 hairy. Heads numerous, -f—l-j in. in diam., solitary, often furnished 

 M'ith 1 or 2 leafy bracts ; peduncles stout, hairy. Invol.-bracts narrowly 

 linear-oblong, subacute, hairy and glandular, the outer the smaller. 

 Eay-flowers ligulate, few, yellow, 1 -seriate. Disk-flowers tubular, 

 acutely toothed. Pappus rigid, scabrid, much longer than the achenes, 

 yellowish at first, then reddish. Achenes yo~8 ^^- ^^^S' oblong, strongly 

 ribbed, hispid. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 296; Boiss. Fl. Orient, v. 3, p. 195 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648. Inula cutchica, 

 C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 126. Callisteplms cuneatus, Dalz. MS. in 

 Herb. Kew. — Flowers : Nov.-Dec. 



Sind: Stocks, 519.', Woodrow; common on rocks, Dalzelll; Karachi, Dcd;:cll\ ; 

 Moach near Karachi, Cooke ! ; Hyderabad, Cooke ! ; Garral (Lo^er Sind), Stocks, 

 437 ! — Distrib. Kutch, Beluchistan, Wazaristan, S.E. Arabia. 



