O LXXI. COMPOSIT.!:. 



usually lougei' than the head of flowers, oblong-lanceolate, acute, white- 

 tomeutose beneath, pointed with a bristle ; intermediate bracts smaller 

 than the inner, linear, acute or rounded at the apex, bristle-pointed, 

 white-tomentose ; the innermost bracts linear-oblong, subacute, scarious, 

 wliite-tomentose, sometimes reflexed. Pappus pale-reddish (sometimes 

 almost w hite), much shorter than the corolla-tube. Achcnes -jV~tV ^^• 

 long, oblong, faintly 10-ribbed, glabrous. Fl. B. 1. v. 3, p. 228 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. G47. Dccaneunmi 

 lilaciimm, Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. Fl. p. 314. — I'lowers : Oct. -Nov. 



KoNKAN : Laiul, Lambert \ Deccan : Mahiblesh war, CooA'c ! ; Warra Gliat, CooAre ! ; 

 Kbaiidala, Coukel — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



4. Centratherum Hookeri, C. B. Clarl-e, Comp. Ind. (187G) p. 3. 

 Stem herbaceous, erect, 18-24 in. high, ashy-pubescent, angled and 

 grooved. Leaves scattered, 2-3 by |-g in., linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 obscurely toothed, faintly pubescent on both sides, not white beneath ; 

 petioles very short. Heads ^-f in. in diam., subcorymbose ; peduncles 

 lioary-pubescent ; flowers red. Outer invol. -bracts shorter than the 

 inner, ovate-oblong, subacute, densely pubescent; intermediate bracts 

 longer than the outer but shorter than the innermost, linear, with 

 reflexed tips ; the innermost longest of all, linear, scarious, with reflexed 

 tips. Pappus dirty- straw-colored, longer than the corolla-tube, rigid, 

 deciduous. Acheues ^ in. long, linear-oblong, 10-ribbed. PI. B. I. 

 V. 3, p. 228; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. G47.— 

 Plowers : Nov. 



Stocks without locality in Herb. Ivew. ! Konkan : Law'. Deccan: Poona, 

 Woodrowl — DisTKiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. LAMPRACHENIUM, Benth. 



An erect branched annual with crisped hairs. Leaves alternate, 

 pctiolate, toothed, clothed beneath witli white tomentum. Heads small, 

 laxly subcorymbosely paniculate, homogamous. Involucre subcatnpanu- 

 late ; bracts oo - seriate, dry, the inner acute, lieceptacle flat, naked. 

 Corollas purple, all tubular, equal, regular ; tube slender ; limb nar- 

 rowly 5-lid. Anthers obtusely auricled. Style-arms subulate, hairy. 

 Pappus-hairs few, short, fugacious, red. Acheues obovoid, sliglitly 

 compressed, shining, not ribbed, quite glabrous. — Disthib. Peninsular 

 India ; species 1. 



1. Lamprachenium microcephalum, Benth. in Bcnth. tj- Ilool-.f. 

 Gen. Fl. v. 2 (1873) p. 22(5. An erect herb 1-2 ft. high; stem siiii])le 

 or branched, glabrous, hairy or glandular, often tinged with piiri)le. 

 Leaves 2-3 by 1-1 1 in., elliptic, acuminate, sparsely clothed with short 

 bristly hairs above, densely covered with \\hite woolly tomentum be- 

 neath, distantly bristle-serrate, tapering at the base ; petioles |-| in. 

 long. Heads small, -,^-3- in. in diam., numerous, on slender hairy 

 peduncles. Invol. -bracts elliptic-lanceolate, cuspidate, white-tomentose 

 on the back ; the exterior foliaccous at the tip, erect or recurved, acute, 

 with densely ciliate margins ; the interior a little longer, scarious, villous. 

 Pappus reddish, equalling the corolla-tube, rigid. Acheues yV-jV i"- 

 long, obovoid, turgid, slightly cou)presscd, smooth, .shining. PI. B. I. 

 V. 3, p. 229 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Iiul. p. T) ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 



