42 ixxi. coMrosiT.E. 



glabrous, i in. long. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 30G ; AViglit, Icon. t. 1106; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Xat. v. 11 (1898) p. 649. WoUastonia bijlora, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 128, exclud. syn. {not of 1)0.). Verhesina bijlora. Wall. 

 Cat. 3207, B, in part ; Grab. Cat. p. 100. — Flowers : Aug.-tSept. 



KoNKAx : Law !, Bcdzcll ! ; near Marmagao, Cooke ! Deccan : Junnar, Woodrow ! ; 

 Poona, Jf'oodrow. S. M. Country : Clieeta hill 4 miles S. of Eelgaum, Ritchie, 38U ! 

 Kanaka: Kiilgi (N. Kanara), Talbot, 24101 — Distuib. India (W. Peninsula); 

 Malayan Arcbipelago. 



3. Wedelia biflora, BG. hi IVicjJit, Contrih. (1834) p. 18 {not of 

 C. B. Clarke). A rambling climbing shrub growing near the sea ; stem 

 semi-woody below, with opposite horizontal striate glabrous or pubescent 

 branches. Leaves opposite, 2|-5^ by 1-3 in., ovate, acute or acuminate, 

 rather distantly serrate, rough with appressed hairs on both sides, base 

 usually cuneate ; petioles -1—2 in. long, pubescent. Heads 4-f in. iu 

 diam., usually 3 together at the ends of the branches ; peduncles long, 

 unequal, glabrous or pubescent. Invol.-bracts obloug-lanceolate, about 

 equalling the disk-flowers, pubescent, liay-flowers ligulate, ligules 

 yellow, 2-3-toothed at the apex. Pappus usually 0. Achenes 3 (some- 

 times 4) -angled, -^ in. long, cuneate, more or less tubercled, glabrous 

 except at tlie truncate apex where they are minutely pubescent. Fl. B. 

 I. V. 3, p. 306 ; Trim. Tl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 39 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bonib. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. 649. Wedelia scandeus, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 

 p. 136 (exclud. syn. W, Horsjieldiand). WoUastonia hijlora and scabrius- 

 cula, DC. Prodr. v. 5, pp. 546 & 547; Wight, Icon. t. 1108. — Flowers : 

 Dec. A'erx. Sonki. 



\ery close to the last species, from which it differs in its climbing 

 habit, in being much less hairy, and in its shorter and broader achenes. 



On the sea-coast. Konkan : near Marmagao, Woodrow. — Distiub. Tropical shores 

 of Eastern Asia. 



83. SPILANTHES, Linn. 



Annual herbs. Leaves opposite, usually toothed. Heads usually on 

 long peduncles, axillary or terminal, heterogamous and rayed or homo- 

 gamous and disciform ; ray-flowers 5 > fertile, 1-seriate ; disk-flowers 

 ^ , fertile. Involucre short, ovoid or campanulate ; bracts sub-2-seriate, 

 slightly unequal, lleceptacle convex, elongate ; palea) folded, enclosing 

 the 5 flowers, often contracted with the ovary into a stalk. Corollas 

 of 2 flowers ligulate, ligules small, \\ hite or yellow, spreading, entire or 

 2-3-toothed ; corollas of ^ flowers regular, tubular, the limb enlarged 

 or narrowly campanulate, 4-5-fid. Anther-bases truncate, entire or 

 rarely minutely 2-toothed. Style-arms of g flowers rather long, trun- 

 cate. Pappus or of 2-3 bristles. Achenes of the ray 3-quetrous or 

 dorsally compressed, those of the disk laterally compressed, usually 

 ciliate at the margins or angles. — Distuib. Cliiefly Tropical American ; 

 f^pecies about 20. 



1. Spilanthes Acmella, 3hirr. S>/sf. Vcj. ed. 13 (1771) p. 610. 

 Annual, erect or ascending; stem and branches more or less hairy. 

 Ijcaves ojiposite, 1-2 by t-H in., ovate, acute or subobtusc, irregularly 

 trenate-serrate or sometimes entire, glabrous or nearly so, base usually 

 acute ; petioles ]-^ in. long, pubesLCut. lieuds j-i in. long, ovoid, 



