53 LXXI. COilPOSIT.-E. 



or pinnatifid with mucronulate lobes, often undulate or crisped, glabrous 

 or pubescent. Heads ovoid-oblong, g-l in. long by |-^ in. in diam., 

 araneously pubescent; peduncles grooved, glabrous or puberulous, with 

 a few small foliaceous bracts, Invol. -bracts elliptic-oblong with a long 

 spreading or recurved spinescent av\n. Corollas g-f in. long, purple ; 

 lubes g in. long by about ^-'-jj in. wide, lineai', acute, very tender. iVnther- 

 tails connate to the tips, \Mth a membrane between them in front of the 

 minutely pubescent iilaments. Style-arms long, slender, i-ecurved. 

 Palece of the receptacle short, about equalling or shorter than the 

 achenes. Pappus of many unequal hairs, silvery-brown, the innermost 

 flattened and long. Achenes i in. long, acutely angled, and, in the ripe 

 fruit, punctate between the angles, areole small, the top broad, truncate. 

 El. B. I. V. 3, p. 383 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 242 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 651 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. G, part 4, 

 p. 297. 'frlcliolepis prommhens, Wight, Icon. t. 1139 ; Dalz. & Gibs, 

 p. 131. Tricliohpis CandoUeana, Wight, in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. v. 1 

 (1835) p. 81, t. 4. — Elowers : Nov. Veen. Lih-lcatmanda. 



KoNKAN : Law !, Lambert ! Deccax : near Wadi, CooJcc \ Gujarat : common in 

 liglit soils, Dalzell tf- Gibson ; Broach (dry places), Kanitkar \ Sind : Dal.:cll\; Karachi 

 to Mugger Peer, Vcrry\; Mulir, IVoodrowl, Cooke I; Jemadar ka Landa near 

 Karaclii, <SYoc^5, 1192! — HJistuib. Central, Western, and Southern India; At'ghaiustan, 

 33olucliistan. 



48. DICOMA, Cass. 



Herbs or low shrubs. Leaves alternate. Heads subsessile on the 

 branches or in the axils of the upper leaves, or leaf-opposed, rarely 

 corymbose, homogamous, discoid, all the flowers ^ ; or heterogamous, 

 the outer flowei's being $ ,all fertile or the innermost sterile. Involucre 

 globose, conic or subcampanulate ; bracts oo - seriate, imbricate, ovate, 

 lanceola''e or linear, acuminate, spinescent or mucronate or with a long 

 apical spine, the outer bracts gradually shorter. Peceptacle flat, naked, 

 often pitted. Corollas of ^ flowers tubular, the limb enlarged, 5-partite, 

 with erect or revolute lobes ; corollas of $ flowers, if present, slendei", 

 subligulate. Anther-bases sagittate ; tails long, more or less bearded. 

 8tyle-arms short, erect, obtuse. Pappus-hairs co - seriate, the inner or 

 all flat, barbellate or feathery, the outer shorter, paleaceous or of slender 

 bristles. Achenes turbinate, densely silky-villous, 5-10-ribbed. — 

 DiSTRiB. Tropical and 8. Africa ; 1 species widely spread throughout 

 India; species 13. 



1. Dicoma tomentosa, Cass, in Ball. Soc. Pliilorii, (1818) p. 4 7. 

 Annual, erect, much-branched, (5-18 in. high ; stem woody at the base 

 and as well as the branches terete, clothed w ith white cottony wool, tlie 

 older branches often tinged \\ith purple. Leaves sessile, 1-2| by g-| in., 

 linear or linear-obovate, obtuse or subacute, apiculate, entire, clothed on 

 both sides ^ith cottony wool. Heads numerous, campanulate, subsessile 

 or shortly peduncled, solitary, axillary, leaf-opposed and terminal. 

 Corolla white or |)ale-yellow, \ in. long ; segments of the limb \ in. long. 

 Invol. -bracts ^-f in. long, linear-lanceolate, membranous, glabrous, 

 terminated by a long spine. Pappus longer than the achenes, the outer 

 bristles slender, slightly shorter than the inner, the inner h in. long, 

 paleaceous, lanceolate-subulate, strongly nerved and with a rigid midrib. 

 Achenes ,', in. long. ,',, in. broad, turbinate, tiumcatc at tup, densely 



