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broadly ovate, subacute, often pinnatifid witb a large ovate terminal lobe 

 and 1 or 2 pairs of small lateral ones, all coarsely crenate-serrate, 

 sparsely bairy on both sides ; nerves prominent beneath ; petioles 

 |-| in. long, hairy. Heads 1-^ in. in diam., few, globose, panicled ; 

 pedicels long, each often with a linear acute bract above or below the 

 middle. Invol.-bracts minute, linear, with scarious margins. Corollas 

 of inner or disk-flowers yellow, 4- (less commonly o-) toothed ; those of 

 the outer flowers filiform, curved, pink or purplish, usually obscurely 

 2-toothed. Pappus of § flowers 0, of ^ flowers of 2 or 3 bristles. 

 Achenes ^tV^tV '^* long, compressed, smooth. F\. B. I. v. 3, p. 245 : 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 124; Wight, Icon. t. 1096; C. B. Clarke, Comp. 

 Ind. p. 36 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 14: Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1898) p. 647.— Flowers : Aug.-Oct. 



Deccan : Miiwal, Woodrow\ ; Mabableshwar, Cooke ! ; Panchgani, Cooke !, Woodrow ! 

 S. M. Country: Eamglult, Dalzell t|- Gihson, St(jck.'i '. ; Belgaum, Ritchie, 389! — 

 PiSTUiB. ludia (N.W. Hiuialayas, Sikkim, Khasia, Cacliar, Birma, W. Peninsula) ; 

 Ceylon, Malaya, Persia, China, Africa. 



9. CYATHOCLINE, Cass. 



Erect annual branched herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect. Heads 

 small, heterogamous, in small panicles at the apices of the branches. 

 Outer flowers $ , fertile, oo - seriate ; inner or disk-flowers g , usually 

 sterile, regular, 5-cleft. Involucre hemispheric; bracts sub-2-seriate, 

 lanceolate, acute, with scarious margins, slightly unequal. Receptacle 

 with a contracted base, elevated, top concave, naked. Corollas of $ 

 flowers filiform, usually 2-toothed. Corollas of ^ flowers regular, 

 tubular, the limb narrowly campanulate, 5-fid. Anther-bases truncate. 

 Style exserted, that of the ^ flowers simple or cleft. Pappus 0. 

 Achenes very small, oblong, smooth. — Distrib. East Indies ; species 2. 



1-2 ft. high ; flowers purple 1. C.lyrafa. 



4-9 in. high ; flowers yellow 2. C. lutea. 



1. Cyathocline lyrata, Cass, in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 1, v. 17 (1829) 

 p. 420. A slender delicate erect herb 1-2 ft. high ; stems branched, 

 grooved, more or less pubescent. Leaves sessile, 1-5 in. long, pinnatifid, 

 the segments toothed, more or less pubescent. Flowers both of ray and 

 disk rose-purple, in heads ^ in. in diam., arranged in small rounded 

 corymbose panicles. Invol.-bracts linear, acute, -pT-xV ^^- ^ong, with 

 scarious and densely ciliate margins. Corollas of ^ flowers with 5 short 

 ciliate teeth. Pappus 0. Achenes minute, oblong, smooth. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 3, p. 246 : Wight, Icon. t. 1098 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 37 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 647. Cyathocline Lawii, 

 Wight, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 7 (1847) p. 159 {not of Dalz. & 

 Gibs.). C. stricta, DC. Prodr. v. 5 (1836) p. 374; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 124.— Flowers : Nov.-Mar. 



Usually met with on the banks of streams and in moist localities. Konka.v: Law !, 

 Stocks \; Banda, Ritchie, 386!; banks of streams, Dalzell Sf Gibson. Deccan: 

 Mabableshwar, Cooke'.; river bank, Kirkee, J. G. Woodrow I; river bank, Poona, 

 Cooke I; Sholapur, bank of Ekruk tank, G. M. Woodroiul; Mawal taluka, G. M, 

 Woodrow. S. M. Coi'ntry: Dharwar, CboA'e ! Kanaka: Kkl&nsiAAi, Ritchie, ^-~-\ — 

 DisTRiB. India (N.W. Himalayas, Oude, Behar, Central India, Chota Nagpur, Assam, 

 Chittagong, Rangoon, Birma, W. Peninsula). 



