48 . LXXI. COMPOSITE, 



Prod. V. 1, p. 327. Ariemisia hvUca, "Wilkl, Sp. PI. v. 3, p. 1846 ; 

 Grab. Cat. p. 102 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 129 ; Wigbt, Icon. t. 1112.— 

 Flowers : Sept.-Jan. Yerx. Dhor-davand. 



Deccan : Purandliar Fort, abundant, Graham; Ghats, Zf?e;' ! ; Pancligani, Cooke\; 

 Mahablesliwar hills, Dalzell ! ; along the Eailway line between Talegaon and Slielarvadi 

 Stations, G. I. P. Railway, Bhival S. M. Country: Belgaum, BUcIiie, 1813! — 

 DiSTRiB. Throughout the hilly districts of India ; Ceylon, temperate Europe and Asia, 

 Siam, Java. 



A plant having tonic and stomachic properties and used as a febrifuge. It ia 

 known as the Indian Wormwood and is often employed to prevent moths from 

 infesting clothes. See Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 1. c. 



A. Artemisia pallens, Wall. Cat. (1828) 3302. Herbaceous, 

 |-1 ft. bigh, erect, brancbed, woolly-canescent, very aromatic ; stem 

 ratber tbick. Lower aud middle stem-leaves orbicular in outline, 

 2-pinnatisect, |-1^ in. long and broad witb a petiole | in. long, pinnte 

 3 pairs, ultimate segments linear, obtuse ; upper leaves gradually 

 smaller, less cut and with sborter petioles or sessile ; the uppermost 

 leaves oblong or subspatliulate, toothed or entire. Heads globose, 

 4--^ in. in diam., in lax compound racemes or leafy panicles, shortly 

 pedicel led. Invol. -bracts 15-20, the exterior oblong, obtuse, concave, 

 rather tbick, herbaceous, witb a hyaline and slightly ciliate margin, 

 the intermediate broad, cucullate, scarcely or a little shorter than the 

 exterior, veined and with a broader hyaline margin ; the innermost 

 smaller, much thinner. Eeceptacle naked. Outer flowers 2 , about 

 j-'tt in. long ; disk-flowers ^ , subcampanulate, a little shorter than the 

 outer flowers, all fertile, glabrous. Style-arms of ^ flowers truncate, 

 fimbriate. Achenes ^V in. long, oblong, glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 329 

 (under doubtful species) ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 163 ; Stapf. in 

 Hook. Icon. PI. V. 26 (1899) t. 2597 ; DC. in Wight, Contrib. p. 20 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 650. Artemisia paniai- 

 lata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 61 ; Fl. Ind. v. 3, p. 418 ; Icones Rox- 

 burgbirinee ined. in Herb. Kew. no. 1640 (not of Lamk.). — Flowers : 

 Mar.-Apr. Vebn. Davand. 



Cultivated at Alandi and Jejuri in the D<»ccan for use as an offering at the Eam 

 Navami festival. The specimens from which the figure in Hook. Icon, was taken 

 were sent to Kew from Alandi by Mr. Woodrow. There seems to be no evidence as 

 lo where the plant is to be found in a wild state. Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. 1. c , mentions 

 liis having grown the plant in the Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, but states that lie has 

 not been able to ascertain its native country. 



40. GYNURA, Cass. 



Succulent herbs, rai*ely undersbrubs, glabrous or hispid. Leaves 

 alternate, entire, toothed or pinnatisect. Heads solitary or corymbose, 

 bracteolate at the base, Iromogamous, disciform ; flowers all ^ , fertile, or 

 rarely a few of the outer flowers $ . Involucre cylindric or sub- 

 campanulate ; bracts 1-seriate, narrow, equal, sometimes cohering for a 

 considerable distance, with scarious margins. Eeceptacle flat, pitted or 

 shortly flmbrillate. Corollas regular, slender, tubular; limb slightly 

 enlarged, very shortly 5-tid. Anther-bases entire or subauricled. 

 {^tyle-arms slender; tips long, subtilate, hispid. Pa])pus-hairs copious, 

 CO -seriate, slender, white. Achenes narrow, many-ribbed. — Distrib. 

 AVarm re.n-ions of Asia. Africa, and Au'^tralia ; species about 20. 



