Lxxr. cojirusiT.i:. 55 



acute. Involucres .surrounded by strong white bristles resembling 

 pappus-hairs ; outer iuvol. -bracts oblanceolate, glabrous, pungent ; inter- 

 mediate bracts with 1 or 2 of the bracts often produced into sharp spines 

 sometimes exceeding 1 in, long, causing the balls frequently to bristle 

 with many spines ; innermost bracts 5-8, nearly | in. long, connate for 

 more than ^ their length into a tube round the achenes, the free segments 

 acute, or obtuse and Jaciniate at the apex, cih'ate and with scarious 

 margins. Anther-tails fimbriate. Pappus short, yellowish, forming a 

 short cylindric brush above the achene. Ac-henes -^ in. long, obcoin'c, 

 densely villous. Fl. J3. I. v. 3, p. 358 ; Grab. Cat. p. 95 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 p. 131; Wight, Contrib. p. 24; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 211; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 651. — Flowers : Nov.-Jan. 

 Yern. UtJcatcir. 



KoNKAN : Lambert I Deccan: common, GraJiam, Woodrotvl, Cooke I ; Poonn,, 

 Cooke I, Uoodrowl; Lodwick Point, Maliableshwar, (r'm/^aw. S. M. Countky : Law 

 ex Graham. Sind : Stocks ! — Distrib. More or less throughout India. 



45. GONIOCAULON, Cass, in Bull. Soc. Philom. 



An annual erect glabrous herb with an angled branched stem. Leaves 

 alternate, narrow, toothed. Heads narrow, fascicled and corymbose, 

 homogamous ; flowers few, all ^ , fertile. Involucre oblong with narrow 

 base ; bracts oo - seriate, imbricate, subpaleaceous, acute, erect, not 

 spinescent, the inner elongate, the outer gradually shorter. Heceptacle 

 small, paleaceous. CoroUa-tube slender; limb long, cylindric, 5-fid to 

 the middle or lower, segments narrow. Filaiuents hairy; anther-bases 

 sagittate, connate, tails short. Style-arms filiform. Pappus paleaceous, 

 the scales oo - seriate, very unequal. Achenes glabrous, oblong, subterete, 

 with about 20 ribs. — Distrib. East Indies ; species 1. 



1. Goniocaulon glabrum, Cass, hi Did. >Sc. Nat. v. 19 (1821) 

 p. 201. Erect, herbaceous, l-Sg ft. high with a straight tap-root ; 

 istem glabrous, 4-8-angled, striate between the angles. Leaves sessile, 

 2-5 by 1^-1 in., ^^-amplexicaul, linear-oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse 

 or subacute, toothed or serrate, sprinkled with black dots on both sides, 

 base narrowed. Heads |-| in. long, narrow, with 4-G corollas in cacli 

 head, fascicled in compound corymbs with linear bracts beneath the 

 peduncles and very short pedicels. Invol.-bracts co - seriate, lanceolate, 

 acute, striate, almost white, or wiih colored tips. Corollas much 

 exserted beyond the involucre, rose-colored. Pappus paleaceous, the 

 scales vex'y unequal, linear, slightly obovate, subobtuse. Achenes 4- in. 

 long, closely ribbed, glabrous. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 377 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 051. Goniocaulon indicum, C. B. Clarke, 

 Comp. Ind. p. 236. Amherhoa iiulica, DC. Prodr. v. 6, p. 558 ; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. p. 131 ; Wight, Icon. t. 479. — Flowers: Jan.-Feb. Vern. 

 KadJcuswnbd. 



Deccan : Woodrow I, Cooke ! ; Kelgaon (Poona districts), Bhiva ! ; Uruli near Poona, 

 Woodrow\ ; Lasalgaon, Kanitkar\ — I)istrib. India (Baudelkhand, Central India, W. 

 Peninsula). 



46. TRICHOLEPIS, DC. 



Annual or perennial branched unarmed herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, 

 toothed or the lower sublyrate, often punctate. Heads terminal, solitary, 

 pedunculate, homogamous ; ilowers all '^ , fertile. Involucre ovoid or 



