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Nat. V. 11 (1898) p. G17 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 586. Deca- 

 neufum microcephulum, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 3 (1851) p. 231 ; 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 122. — Flowers : Oct.-JVov. Veen. Brahmadundi. 



Stocks, Bal-e/l, without localities, in Herb. Kew. ! Deccan: Maliableshwar, Cookel, 

 Woodrow ! S. M. Countky : Dalzell cf- Gibson. 



The plant is abundant at Maliableshwar, where T have frequently gathered it ; but 

 I have never noticed the odor of chamomile mentioned by Dalzell & Gibson. 



3. ADENOON, Dalzell. 



An erect rigid herb. Leaves alternate, sessile. Heads pale-purple 

 with intensely colored anthers, in moderate-sized corymbosely paniculate 

 homogatnous heads. Involucre campanulate ; bracts many-seriate, imbri- 

 cate, oblong-lanceolate, aristate, the outer gradually shorter. E-eceptacle 

 flat, minutely finibriate. Corollas all tubular, equal, slender ; Jimb 

 narrowly 5-fid. Anther-bases sagittate, subcaudate. Style-arms subu- 

 late, hairy. Pappus 0. Achenes lU-ribbed, obovoid, obtuse, subcom- 

 pressed. — Disteib. India (W. Peninsula) ; species 1. 



1. Adenoon indicum, Dalz. in Kew Journ. Bot. v. 2 (1850) p. 344. 

 An erect glandular herb 1|-2| ft. high. Stem simple below, branched 

 above, angled and grooved, leafy, the lower part smooth or nearly so 

 often tinged with purple, the upper part scabrid and hispid. Leaves 

 thick, 2-3g by 1-2 in., alternate, sessile, broadly elliptic or obovate, 

 acute at both ends, coarsely and irregularly serrate, rough on both sides 

 with short, usually bulbous hairs, ligbt green above, paler beneath and 

 with many prominent nerves. Heads g-g in. in diam., in corymbose 

 panicles ; flowers purple ; peduncles hirsute ; bracts at the forks and 

 below the flower-heads linear-lanceolate, mucronate. Invol.-bracts 

 elliptic-oblong, arisfate, hairy on the hack, 3-nerved, glandular. Pap- 

 pus 0. Aeheues jV;— f\j- in. long, with 10 stout ribs, glandular between 

 the ribs. PI. B. 1. v. 3, p. 2i:9 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 121 ; C. B. Clarke, 

 Cump. lud. p. 5; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. iS^at. v. 11 (1898) p. 647. 



Etlmlia ?, Grab. Cat. p. lUl. — Flowers : Sept.-Oct. Veen. 



Motha-sunlci. 



KoNKAN : Amboli Ghat, Cool'e\ Deccan: Phunda Ghat, J9a^^cZ^ ! ; Mahableshwar, 

 Cooke .', Wuodrow ! S. M. Country : Belgaum, Law ex Graham ; Castlerock, Cooke ! ; 

 Parva Ghat, i?iYc/(/c, 1SU5 ! Kanaka: Tmai (N. Kanara), Woodrow. — Distkib. India 

 (W. Peninsula). 



4. VERNONIA, Schreb. 



Herbs or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, entire or toothed. Heads 

 terminal or axillary, homogamous, cymose or panicled. Involucre 

 ovoid, globose or hemispheric, equalling or shorter than the flowers ; 

 bracts in many series, the inner longest. lieceptacle naked or pitted, 

 sometimes shortly hairy. Corollas all equal, regular, tubular, slender ; 

 lobes 5, narrow. Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms subulate, hairy. 

 Pappus usually 2-seriate of many hairs, often girt with a row of outer 

 short hairs or flattened bristles. Achenes striate, ribbed or angled, 

 rarely terete. — DisxEiu. Chiefly tropical, mostly American ; species 

 about 280. 



