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flowers. Aohenes short, oblong, silky. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 300 ; C. B. 

 Clarke, Corap. Ind. p. 130 ; Woodr. iu Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 649. 



Rare. Sind: CooJce\, JVoodnnol, DuhclV. — Distrib. India (Paujdb) ; S. Persia, 

 JBelucliistan. 



5. Pulicaria Boissieri, Hooh. f. Fl. B. I. \. 3 (1881) p. 300. 

 Dwarf, shrubby, villous with long white hairs. Leaves sessile, fleshy, 

 g-1 in. long, linear-spathulate, woolly, entire or sparsely toothed, 

 margins flat or involute. Heads | in. in diam. ; peduncles short, 

 luvol.-bracts lanceolate, acnte, rigid, the outer much the shorter. 

 Ligules 0. Pappus white or yellowish, the outer coroniforin, the inner 

 much longer than the achenes, slightly flattened. Achenes short, 

 oblong, silky. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 649. 

 Platt/chcete villosa, Boiss. ll. Orient, v. 3, p. 208. 



Sind : StocJcs, 4:ol !, Bahcll !, 'Woodroiu. 



0. Pulicaria Stocksii, IIoolc f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 (1881) p. 300. 

 Dwarf, shrubby, pubescent, blackish when dry. Leaves sessile, |-| in. 

 long, linear-spathulate, very fleshy, entire. Heads subsessile, | in. in 

 diam. Invol.-bracts i"igid, lanceolate, puberulous, the outer obtuse, 

 much shorter than the inner, the inner acute. Ligules 0. Pappus 

 white, the outer row short, coroniform, the inner much longer than the 

 achenes. Achenes narrowed at the base, densely silky, -J-^r in. long. 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 649.— Plowers : Oct. 



Sind: Sfocksl, Woodroiv. A rare ]5lant. 



I have seen but one specimen, which was collected in Sind by Stocks. — Distrib. 

 Apparently endemic. 



25. C-ffiSULIA, Eoxb. 



A glabrous marsh herb. Leaves alternate, remotely serrulate. 

 Heads axillary, sessile ; flowers all ^ , fertile, pale-blue or white, the 

 outer often subracemosely stipitate or sessile, the inner sessile. 

 Involucre large, membranous ; bracts 2, orbicular or ovate. Receptacle 

 with a few palete to the outer flowers, naked in the centre, glabrous. 

 Corollas tubular ; the limb narrowly campanulate, deeply 5-fid. Anther- 

 bases sagittate ; tails slender, consisting of a small bundle of fine hairs 

 which cling together. Style-arms short, clavate. Pappus of 2 ovate 

 scales. Achenes flat, obovoid, notched, winged on each side, sparsely 

 hairy. — Distrib. East Lidies ; species 1. 



1. Caesulia axillaris, Eo.vh. Uort. Beng. (1814) p. 62. A succulent 

 prostrate or suberect herb, 6-18 in. high; stem stout, more or less 

 branched, striate, glabrous. Leaves sessile, 11-6 by f^^-1 in., lanceo- 

 late, acute, distantly serrulate, narrowed at the base, glabrous. Heads 

 axillary, sessile ; flowers pale-blue or white ; outer flowers often sub- 

 racemosely stipitate or sessile, irregularly intermixed with linear, acute 

 bracteoles (palece) ; inner flowei'S sessile, A^ithout interspersed paleaj. 

 lieceptacle glabrous, sparsely paleaceous. Involucz'e large, membranous ; 

 bracts 2, orbicular or broadly ovate, crenulate or dentate, with a dorsal 

 apiculus near the apex. Corollas tubular, the limb slightly enlarged 

 with 5 linear lobes -^^ iu. long. Anthers black (liltchie) ; bases 



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