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1. Gynura angalosa, DC. Prodr. v. 6 (1837) p. 298. Eobust, 

 glabrous, 3-10 ft. high, more or less corymbosely branched at top ; 

 stem as thick as the little finger, angled and grooved, glabrous. Leaves 

 variable, 4-8 by 1|-3| in.; the upper leaves sessile, oblong or obovate, 

 coarsely sinuate-toothed, auricled at the base ; the lower leaves often 

 lanceolate and attenuated at the base. Flowers deep orange ; heads 

 corymbose, numerous, |-1 in. long, with a few linear acute bracteoles 

 beneath the involucre ; peduncles glabrous or nearly so. Invol.-bracts 

 ^-f in. long, linear, striate, and with scarious margins, glabrous. 

 Pappus copious, white, longer than the bracts, but shorter than the 

 corollas. Achenes deeply ribbed, oblong, narrow, quite glabrous, 

 sometimes papillose between the ribs. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 334 ; C. B. 

 Clarke, Comp. lud, p. 170. Gynura simplex, Dalz. & Gibs. p. 130, 

 Otpiura nitida, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 650 (not 

 of DC.).— Flowers : Aug.-Oct. 



KoNKAN : Stocks ! ; Neral, Bhiva ! Deccan : highest hills round Junnar, Dalzell <f- 

 Gibson ; Panchgani, Cooke ! ; Mahableshwar, Cooke ! ; Fitzgerald Grhat, Cooke ! ; hills 

 W. of Poona, Wondrowl; Siuhagad, Woodrotv\; Lanoli, Woodrow\; Purandhar, 

 Dr. Barnes ! S. M. Country : Belgaimi, Ritchie, 1093 ! — Distrib. India (temperate 

 Himalaya, Khasia Mountains, hills of the W. Peninsula). 



41. EMILIA, Cass. 



Annual or perennial often glaucous herbs, glabrous or hairy. Leaves 

 variable ; radical leaves crowded at the base of the stem, petiolate, 

 entire, toothed or pinnatifid ; cauline leaves few, alternate, usually 

 amplexicaul and aiu'icled. Heads on long peduncles, solitary or laxly 

 corymbose, without bracteoles at the base, homogamous, discoid ; 

 flowers all ^ , fertile, purple or red. Involucre cylindric ; bracts 

 1 -seriate, equal, free or more or less cohering, striate. Eeceptacle flat, 

 naked. Corollas tubular ; limb elongate, cylindric, shortly 5-fid. 

 Anthei'-bases obtuse, subentire. Style-arms subterete, ending in a 

 short obtuse or elongate acute appendage. Pappus -hairs copious, white, 

 soft, very slender. Achenes subterete, or angled and 5-ribbed, glabrous 

 or scabrid on the angles. — Distrib. East Indies and Tropical Africa ; 

 species 4 or 5. 



1. Emilia sonchifolia, DC. in Wight, Contrih. (1834) p. 24. A 

 glabrous scabrid or puberulous slender herb, 1-1 1 ft. high, erect or 

 difi'use, variously branched, sometimes decumbent and rooting near the 

 base. Leaves very variable ; the lower petioled, lyrate or obovate, 

 toothed or entire ; the cauline more or less amplexicaul and auricled, 

 usually acute, less commonly obtuse at the apex. Heads few, reaching 

 I in. long, laxly corymbose, without bracteoles beneath the head ; 

 flowers purplish ; peduncles very slender, nodding when young, glabrous. 

 Involucre cylindric, glabrous or puberulous towards the top ; bracts 

 almost equalling the corollas, linear-oblong, acute, with scarious margins. 

 Style-arms ^-cylindric ; tips conic. Pappus copious, white, soft, nearly 

 equalling the invol.-bracts. Achenes ^ in. long, narrowly oblong, 

 5-ribbed, brown, scabrid on the ribs. Fl. B, I. v. 3, p. 336 ; C. B. 

 Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 174; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 45; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 650. Caadia sonchifolia, Linn. Sp. 



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