50 Lxxr. coMrosiT,!:. 



n. (1753) p. 835 ; Grab. Cat. p. 93.— Flowers : S(^pt, Vebn. 

 Sadamandi. 



KoxKAN : Law\ Peccan : rooiia, Woodrowl S. M. Couxtky: Castlerock, CooJcel; 

 Eelgauin, couiinon, liltchic, ^60! — Distrib. Throughout India; Cejlon, most tropicr.l 

 and subtropical regions. 



Em'dia Jiammea, Cass. Diet. Sc. Nat. v. 14, p. 400. A small plant 

 \\ith showy scarlet flowers and invol. -bracts imicli shorter than tha 

 flowers, often grown in gardens but not indigenous. It is a native of 

 Tropical Africa. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 330. Emilia saijitlata, DC, Prodr. 

 V. 0, p. 302 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 40. 



42. NOTONIA, DC. 



Plesby glabrous undershrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate or lanceolate, 

 quite entire or crenulate, fleshy. Heads large, on large peduncles, 

 subcorynibose, homogamous, discoid, bracteolate or not ; flowers all ^ , 

 fertile, yellow. Involucre cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, lleceptacle 

 flat, naked or scarcely fimbrillale. Corollas regular, tubular, slender; 

 limb elongate, cjlindric, shortly 5-fid. Auther-bases entire. Ntyle- 

 arnis elongate ; tips short, ovoid, thick, papillose. Pap))us-liairs 

 copious, slender. Acbenes glabrous, subterete, 10-striate. — DisxEin. 

 Iiulia ; Ci-ylon ; species 3 or 4. 



1. Notonia grandiflora, DC. in Wi,/ht, Contrib. (1834) p. 24. 

 A semi-shrubby glabrous perennial 2-5 ft. high; stems stout, fleshy, 

 not nnuh branched, marked with the scars of fallen leaves. Leaves 

 2^-5 by 1-3 in., sessile or shortly petioled, obovate or elliptic-lanceolate, 

 quite entire, very fleshy, pale glaucous-green (especially beneath). 

 Deads |-1^ in. long, corymbose, few- or many-flowered, pale-yellow; 

 peduncles 4-12 in. long, stout, glabrous, furnished with a few small 

 scattered leafy bracts. Divol.-bi'acts |-| in. long, equal, linear-oblong, 

 acute, striate and with scarioias margins. Pappus-hairs copious, longer 

 than the involucre but shorter than the corollas. Acbenes \ in. long, 

 oblong, 10-striate, glabrous. Fl. B. L v. 3, p. 337; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 132 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Lid, p. 170 ; Trim, Fl, Ceyl. v. 3, p. 47 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 050 ; AVatt, Diet. Econ. 

 ]*rod. V. 5, p. 430, Nutonia con/mhosa, DC, Prodr, v. {]i:^'.i7) p. 442. 

 Notonia halsamica, Dalz. & Gibs. Bo. Fl, (1801) p, 133. — Flowers : 8ept. 

 A'krx. Vdndar-roti. 



I cannot find that the pappus of DalzeU's Notonia Jialsamica diiTers 

 from that of N. ijrundijlora. 



KoNKAN : Lnnihertl Dkccan: Kamatki Gli;it, //. M. Birdwood, Coolr]; ICartriz 

 Gliat, W(iodrow\\ Malliargad (I'oona districts), } food row '. ; Tanchgani, CuoAel — 

 Di&TRiB. India (hillj- districts of tlie W. IV'iiiiisul:i) ; Ceyk'n. 



43. SENECIO, Liiui. 



Herbs, shrubs, or undershrubs. Leaves alternate or radical, entire or 

 variously divided. Heads solitary, corymbose or racemose, hetero- 

 gamous (rarely homogamous), usually yellow ; ray-flowers fertile, $ , 

 or ; disk-flowers ^ , fertile. Involucre various ; bracts 1- or sub- 

 2-seriate, equal, erect, free or connate at the base, usually keeled or 



