56 L\Xt. CO.MI'USITA'. 



broad ; bracts x - ^ieriule, imbricate, narrow, the exterior gradually shorter, 

 all aristate-acuminate or the outer mucronate. Eeceptacle flat or couvex, 

 densely bristly. Corollas yellow, red, or purple, regular or slightly oblique ; 

 tube slender ; limb deeply 5-fid. Filaments papillose ; anther-bases 

 sagittate, Avith connate auricles ; tails slender, lacerate. Style-arms 

 usually slender, elongate (short and subdeltoid in T. amplexicaulis). 

 Pappus-bristles co - seriate, very unequal, serrulate, barbellate, or plumose, 

 long and slender, or sometimes short aud paleaceous (rarely 0). Achenes 

 glabrous, with a very oblique or lateral areole, oblong or obovoid, smooth, 

 faintly ribbed. — DiSTiiiu. East Indies ; species 7. 



Pappus copious. 



A divaricately branched often decunibcut herb ; paleie of 



the receptacle not reaching above the pappus 1. T. radicans. 



An erect glabrous herb ; paleaj of the receptacle reaching 



above the papf)us 2. T. glaberrima. 



Papains obsolete 3. T. amjilexkaidis. 



1 . Tricholepis radicans, DC. Prod. v. 6 (1837) p. 564. A slender 

 erect or decumbent herb divaricately branched from the base ; stem and 

 branches angled, glabrous or minutely scaberulous, leafy. Leaves 

 sessile, 1-2 by |-| in. ; lower leaves usually obovate ; cauline oblong ; 

 all coarsely toothed or serrate or sometimes piunatisect, glabrous, 

 jjunctate, the teeth orserratures as well as the apex mucronate or bi'istle- 

 ])ointed. Heads |-|^ in. in diam., more or less woolly-pubescent ; 

 peduncles solitary, erect, glabrous, angled and grooved. Corollas | in. 

 long, purple. luvol.- bracts elhptic-Ianceolate, aristate-acuminate, 

 glabrous, the bristles long, recurved, barbellate ; outer bracts green with 

 scarious margins ; innermost almost entirely scarious and with shorter 

 bristles than the outer. Style-arms slender, Mith a very small ring of 

 hairs at the base of the lobes. Palese of the receptacle linear, acute, 

 shorter than the achenes, but not reaching above the pappus. Pappus 

 yellowish, subpaleaceous, a little shorter than the achenes ; the setse 

 flattened, very unequal, numerous, persistent. Achenes oblong, smooth, 

 4- in. long, faintly striate. PI. B. 1. v. 3, p. 381 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 131 ; 

 C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 239 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 

 (1898) p. 651. — Plowers : Sept.-Nov. Vern. Ddhdn. 



KoNKAN : S/ocks !, Lambert I Deccan : Kolhapur, Cooke ! ; Dongergaon near Ahmed- 

 nagar, Cooke ! ; ravines in the Deccan, couimon, Balzell cf- Gibson. S. M. Country : 

 north of Dliarwar, Ritchie, 1098!; Belgaum, Ritchie, 1UU8 ! Kanaka: Lmvl— 

 DiSTKiB. India (W. Peninsula). 



2. Tricholepis glaberrima, DC. Prodr. v. 6 (1837) p. 564. 

 Quite glabrous ; stem erect, slender, and as well as the branches angled 

 and ribbed. Leaves sessile, 1-2^1 by |— j- in., linear-oblong or lanceolate, 

 acute, entire, spinous-toothed or spinous-serralo, ])unctate, base of the 

 cauline leaves not or rarely auriclcd ; midrib and ner\es veiy prominent 

 beneath. Heads 5- -^ in. long, ovoid, glabrous. Corollas .]-j^^ in. long, 

 purple, Invol.-bi-acta linear-lanceolate, aristate-acuminate, ciliolate, 

 suberect or slightly recurved. Style-arms slender, with a ring of hairs 

 at the base of the lobes. Palea3 of the receptacle reaching much above 

 tlie pappus, narrowly linear, acute. Pappus shorter than the achenes, 

 c()])ious, yellowish-brown, rigid, subpaleaceous. Achenes oblong, faintly 

 rihl-ed. PI. H 1. V. 3, p. 3S] ; Dalz. .*c Gibs. p. 131 ; C. B. Clarke, 



