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short. Heads g-f in. in diaui., droopiog ; peduncles filiform, often 

 with a small foliaceous bract above the middle. Invol.-bracts very- 

 slender, setaceous, with long filiform tips, more or less hairy, the outer 

 squarrose. Eay-flowers 20-40, linear, spreading, yellow, shortly 

 3-toothed at the apex, longer than the involucre. Pappus of ray- 

 flowers of few bristles. Achenes -^ in. long, oblong, sparsely hairv. 

 El. B. I. V. 3, p. 297; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. G49. — Flowers : Nov.-Feb. 



Elevated parts of the Konkan and Deccan. Konkan : Matlieran, Cooke ! ; Aniboli 

 Ghat, Kanitkar ! Deccan : Mahableshwar, Cooke !, Woodrow. — Distkib. Apparently 

 eudeiuie in the Bombay Presidency. 



24. PULICARIA, G^rtn. 



Annual or perennial usually woolly or villous herbs. Leaves alter- 

 nate, sessile, often cordate-amplexicaul. Heads yellow, solitary, rayed 

 and heterogamous, or disciform and homogamous ; ray-flowers 5 , 

 1-2-seriate ; disk-flowers slender, ^ , fertile. Involucre hemispheric or 

 obconic ; bracts few-sei-iate, subequal or the outer shorter, linear, acute 

 or subobtuse. Eeceptacle flat or subconvex, pitted. Corollas of 5 

 flowers ligulate or tubular, those of the ^ flowers regular, tubular, 

 slender, the limb elongate, slightly enlarged, shortly 5-fid. Anther- 

 bases sagittate, with minute auricles ; tails capillary, siinjile or branched. 

 Style-arms of ^ flowers linear, obtuse, slightly flattened, a little broader 

 upwards. Pappus double, the outer row of short jagged teeth or a 

 fimbriate cup ; inner of smooth, scabrid or bearded, filiform or flattened 

 hairs, often caducous. Achenes terete or ribbed. — Distrib. Europe, 

 Africa, and Asia, abundant in the Mediterranean region ; species 

 about 24. 



Invol.-bracts subequal ; achenes sparsely hairy. 

 Ray-flowers ligulate. 



1-2 ft. high; peduncles thickened upwards 1. P. Wlghfiana. 



Less than I ft. high ; peduncles not thickened upwards ... 2. P. angustifolla. 



Ray-flowers tubular 3. P.foliolosa. 



Inner invol.-bracts much longer than the outer ; ligules ; 

 achenes densely silky. 

 Heads peduncled. 



Leaves 1-2 in. long, glabrous or nearly so ; heads \ in. in 



diam 4. P. glaucescens. 



Leaves ^-1 in. long, woolly; heads ^ in. in diam .5. P. Boissieri. 



Heads subsessile, J in. in diam. ; leaves ^-^ in. long 6. P. Stocksii. 



1. Pulicaria Wightiana, C. B. Clarice, Comp. Lid. (1876) p. 128. 

 Annual, 1-2 ft. high, branched from about the middle of the stem ; 

 branches ascending, straight, slender, sometimes angled, pubescent, 

 leafy, the leaves on the branches nearly erect, smaller upwards. Leaves 

 1-3 by |-g in., sessile, oblong, usually serrate, more or less puberulous 

 or pubescent on both sides. Heads solitary, |-| in. in diam., on 

 pubescent leafy peduncles which are thickened upwards. Outer invol.- 

 bracts subherbaceous, linear-oblong, subacute, pubescent, inner bracts 

 scarious, linear-lanceolate, acute, visually slightly longer than the outer. 

 Eay-flowers ligulate, the ligules longer than the bracts, jL i^, broad, 

 yellow, spreading, at length recurved, shortly 3-toothed at the apex. 

 Outer row of pappus a setuloso-laciniate cup, inner row of barbellate 

 hairs which are idtimately reddish. Achenes y^ in. long, oblong, terete 



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