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Outer invol. -bracts not cordate at base ; pappus shorter tliMii 

 the corolla-tube. 



Achenes I in. long, deeply ribbed 2. C. phyllolmnum. 



Achenes jV-t2 ill- loi^gj l^intly ribbed 3. C. tcniie. 



Leaves not white beneath; outer invol. -bracts shorter than 



the inner 4. C. Hookeri. 



1. Centratherum Ritchiei, Hool:. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 (1881) p. 228. 

 An erect herb 15-24 in. high ; stem scarcely branched, grooved, glabrous 

 or with a few minute bristles. Leaves 2|-3| by l^y- 2 in., elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, sparsely clothed above with short 

 thick hairs, white with a soft woolly tomentum beneath, the margins 

 regularly spiuous-toothed, base tapering : petioles ^-| in. long, with a 

 few stout hairs. Heads solitary, axillary and terminal, -^-| in. in diam., 

 on slender peduncles. Outer invol.-bracts 2-6, large, leafy, cordate at 

 the base, tipped with a short spine, white-tomentose beneath ; inner- 

 most bracts linear, subacute, usually tipped with purple, scarious. Pappus 

 reddish, equalling the corolla-tube. Achenes yV~t^ "^* 1°^^S> oblong- 

 obovoid, 10-ribbed, glabrous. Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 647. C. ^courtallense, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 3 (not of 

 Benth. & Hook, f.).— Flowers : Nov. 



Rare. S. M. Countky : Londa, Cooke ! Kanara : Jagalbet, Bitchie, -~-^ ! Goa : 

 Woodrow. — DisTuiB. Apparently endemic. 



2. Centratherum phyllolsenum, Benth. ex Hook.f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 

 (1881) p. 228. An erect branched variable annual ; stems and branches 

 glabrate or rough with minute bristles, often tomentose at the apex, 

 frequently tinged with purple. Leaves 2-6 by 1-2| in., elliptic, acute 

 or acuminate, irregularly spinous-serrate or spinous-dentate, clothed with 

 short setae above, densely covered with white woolly tomentum beneath, 

 base tapering into a short petiole. Heads ^-g in. in diam., solitary, 

 axillary and terminal. Outer invol.-bracts l-oo , spreading or deflexed, 

 linear or lanceolate (rarely oblong), sometimes much longer than the 

 heads, white beneath ; intermediate bracts shorter than the inner, 

 variable, obtuse, acute or rounded, erect or recurved, the margins often 

 ciliate ; innermost bracts scarious, often purple, linear-oblong, acute. 

 Pappus pale-red, stiff, shorter than the corolla-tube. Achenes oblong, 

 I in. long, deeply 10-ribbed, glabrous. C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 4; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 647. D.caneunim nioUe, 

 Dalz. & Gibs. p. 122 {not of DC.).— Flowers : Sept.-Oct. 



KoNKAN : Law I Ooran, Balzdl \ ; Marmagao, Cooke ! ; Parel, Wooclroiv \ S. M. 

 Country : Belgaum, Ritchie, ~— ! Kanaka : Jagalbet (N. Kanara), Biichie, ' '^J'^ 

 Gujarat : Pali, Kanitkar ! — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula, Mt. Abu). 



3. Centratherum tenue, C. B. Clarice, Comp. Ind. (1876) p. 4. 

 Erect, dichotomously branL-hed, 3-5 ft. high ; stem and branches 

 glabrous, slender, often tinged with purple. Leaves : the upper sessile 

 and smaller than the lower ; lower petioled, 4-6 by l|-2^ iu., broadly 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, with short stiff hairs above, 

 clothed beneath with a white woolly tomentum, the margins irregularly 

 serrate, the serratures ending in a short stout bristle, base attenuated ; 

 petioles of the upper leaves 0, those of the lower short with a few 

 bristly hairs at the base. Heads ^-| in. in diam. ; peduncles slender, 

 pubescent j flowers purple. Outer invol.-bracts 1 or 2, large, leafy. 



