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toothed ; length 1 to 4 in. ; petioles -25 to 1-25 in. Heads about -15 in. 

 in diam., globose, on pedicels many times longer than themselves, 

 in lax, few-branched, cymose panicles. Bay-florets $ , filiform, 

 obscurely 2-3-toothed, white. Disk-florets ^ , 4-cleft, yellow. Cypselas 

 very small, smooth, with a callous margin, and often with 2 small 

 bristles. DC. in Wight Contrib. 11, Prod. V. 372; Wight Ic. 

 1096; Clarke Comp. Ind. 36; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 245. D. 

 gracilis and D. sonchifolia, DC. I.e. 371, 372. Cotula sinapifolia, 

 Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 63, Fl. Ind. III. 437 ; Wall. Cat. 3237. C. hicolor, 

 Eoth Cat. Bot. II. 116. C. latifolia, Pers. Syn. II. 464. Granrjea 

 latifolia, Lam. 111. t. 699. Hippia hicolor, Smith in Eees Cyclop. 

 XVIII. Etliulia integrifolia, Don Prodr. 182. 



Perak : Scortechini. — Distrib. British India, tropical and sub- 

 tropical Asia and Africa. 



7. MiCEOGLOSSA, DC. 



Slender shrubs, often scandent. Leaves alternate, entire. Heads 

 small, heterogamous, collected in large corymbose panicles. Bay-florets 

 J , in 1 or more series, fertile, the ligule minute, white. Disk-florets few 

 •or many, ^ , fertile, tubular, with dilated 3- to 4-fid limb. Involucre 

 campanulate, composed of several series of narrow bracts, the outer 

 ■shorter. Beccptacle flat, naked or nearly so; Corolla, the ligulate or 

 ray ones narrow, about as long as the style ; those of the disk (the 

 tubular) longer. Anthers with obtuse bases, entire. Style-arms of the 

 ^ flattened ; their tips long, lanceolate. Cypselas angled ; pappus hairs 

 numerous, slender, silky, in one or two series, somewhat unequal. — 

 Distrib. About 6 species, Asiatic and African. 



MiCEOGLOSSA voLUBiLis, DC. Prod. V. 320. A sub-scandent shrub; 

 branches half as thick as a goose-quill, ridged, glabrous. Leaves mem- 

 branous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded, the 

 ■edges obscurely toothed ; both surfaces brown when dry, glabrous, the 

 lower sometimes slightly pubescent ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, little 

 curved, ascending, prominent beneath ; length 1-5 to 2 in. ; breadth -65 

 to 1-25 in. ; petioles -25 to -4 in., slender. Heads -35 in. in diam., on 

 short peduncles, crowded in dense corymbose terminal cymes, much 

 longer than the leaves. Cypselas compressed, 4-angled, puberulous ; 

 pappus copious, reddish, much longer than the minute achenes. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 57 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 82 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 257. Conyza voluhilis. Wall. Cat. 3057. Erigeron pyrifolius, 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk., 176. 



Perak: Bidley 2890; Wray 2472. Penang : Wallich 3057. 

 — Distrib. British India, Burma, Malay Archipelago, China. 



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