88 LXXI. COMPOSIT.l'. 



toothed. Antlier-bases entire. Style-arms of ^ flowers sliort, flattened, 

 subacute. Pappus 0. Achenes obovoid-oblong, not compressed, oi'teu 

 incurved, obtuse. — Distrib. Species 2, one widely spread throughout 

 tropical and subtropical regions, the other Peruvian. 



1. Siegesbeckia orientalis, Linn. Sp. PL (1753) p. 900. A 

 large annual herb 2-4 ft. high ; stem stiff, erect, with horizontal branches 

 below and dichotomously branched ones abo^'e ; stem and branches 

 tinged with purple, terete, pubescent. Leaves opposite, 2-5 by l$-2^ in., 

 triangular-ovate, acute or acuminate, deeply and irregularly toothed, the 

 uppermost leaves much smaller and nearly entire, all tinely pubescent 

 on both sides, base cuneate, running down wing-like into a somewhat 

 obscure petiole. Heads small, peduncled, in leafy panicles; flowers 

 yellow, those of the ray red beneath. Invol.-bracts iu 2 rows, very 

 dissimilar ; the 5 outer exceeding 4 in. long, linear-spathulate or clavate, 

 horizontally spreading with recurved margins, the upper surface covered 

 Avith large viscous glandular hairs ; the 5 inner bracts short, boat-sh.aped, 

 obtuse, glandular-hairy on the back, each bract enclosing one of the 

 ray-flowers. Eay-flowers usually 5, ligulate, the ligules recurved, 3- 

 toothed at the apex. Pappus 0. Achenes each enclosed in a boat- 

 shaped bract, glabrous, slightly rough, black. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 304 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 100 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 127 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1103 ; Trim, 

 Pi. Ceyl. V. 3, p. 30 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. A'at. v. 11 (180S) p. 64U. 

 • — Plowers : Kov. -Dec. A^eun. Katam^m. 



Deccan : common, Graham ; Pooiia, Cooke I ; island in the Poona river, Woodrow ! ; 

 Pancligani, near the caves, Woodmu\ S. M. Codntuy : Bclgauiii, J)^/^^// tf- Gibson, 

 llitchiv, 1095 ! — Distrib. Tlirougbont India ; Ceylon, most Irupicul and subtropical 

 regions of both homispberes. 



29. ECLIPTA, Linn. 



Annual or perennial herbs, diffuse or erect, branched, more or less 

 strigose. Leaves opposite. Heads small, axillary or terminal, peduncled, 

 heterogamous, rayed ; ray-flowers $ , sub-2-seriate, fertile or sterile, 

 white or yellow ; disk-flowers ^ , fertile. Involucre hemispheric or 

 broadly campanulate ; bracts sub-2-seriate, herbaceous, subequal or the 

 inner shorter. Eeceptacle flat or somewhat convex, the palea) narrow, 

 enclosing several flowers, the innermost very narrow, or 0. Corollas 

 of $ flowers ligulate, spreading, ligules small nai-row, entii-e or 2-toothed ; 

 the corollas of tlie ^ flowers regular, tubular, the limb shortly 4-5-fid, 

 Anther-bases obtuse, subentire. Style-arms flattened, terminated by 

 short or triangular obtuse appendages. Achenes of the ray narrow, 

 li'iquetrous, often empty, those of the disk laterally subcom pressed, top 

 entire, toothed or 2-aristate. — Distrib. Species 3 or 4, one common 

 thi-oughout the warmer regions of the globe, another AustraUan, and a 

 third S. American. 



1. Eclipta erecta, Linn. Maniiss. v. 2 (1771) p. 2SG. Ainiual, 

 erect or prostrate, bi-anched, often rooting at the nodes; stem and 

 branches strigose with appressed white hairs. Leaves sessile, 1-3 in. 

 long, variable in breadth, usually oblong-lanceolate, subentire, acute or 

 subacute, sparsely strigose with appressed hairs on both sides, base 

 tapei'ing. lleads ^-^ in. in diaui., solitary or 2 together on unequal 



