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acute. Cypselas truncate at each end, minutely hairy. DC. in Wight. 

 Contrib. 24. E. sonchifolia, vars. a and /3, Clarke Comp. Ind. 174. 

 Calcalia sonchifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. 835 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 413 ; Don 

 Prod. 180; Wall. Cat. 3144. E. glabra, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 3145. 

 Gynura ecalyculata, DC. I.e. 298. Prenanthcs sarmentosa, Wall. Cat. 

 3262E. E. scabra, DC. I.e. 303; Wight Ic. 1123. E. vmcronata, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 175. 



Singapore : Hullett 240. Penang : Deschamps ; Scortechini ; 

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



Var. minor, King & Gamble. Little more than a foot high, lower 

 leaves broadly ovate, truncate at the base, on long narrow winged 

 petioles. 



Perak : King's Collector 301. Penang : in Klang and Batu Gaja 

 jungles : Deschamps. 



In this variety the terminal lobe only of the leaf is developed, the lower part being 

 long and narrow like a petiole. 



13. Gynura, Cass. 



Succulent herbs, rarely undershrubs, sometimes climbers, glabrous 

 or hispid. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or pinnatisect. Heads 

 solitary or in corymbs, bracteolate at the base, homogamous, disciform, 

 yellow or purplish. Florets yellow : all the ^ tubular, fertile (rarely a 

 few of the outer ones more slender and 2 ) the limb 5-toothed. Involucre 

 cylindric or sub-campanulate ; the bracts 10 or 12, in a single series, 

 narrow, equal; their margins scarious; receptacle flat, pitted or shortly 

 fimbrillate. Anthers with bases entire or sub-auricled. Style-arms 

 slender ; their apices long, slender, subulate, hispid. Cypselas narrow, 

 many-ribbed ; hairs of pappus copious, in many series, slender, white. — 

 Distrib. Species about 20, Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Scandent ; leaves subentire or slightly dentate, petiolate .. 1. G. sarmentosa. 



An erect herb ; leaves always boldly dentate and often pinnatisect 



or pinnatifid, sessile and often sub-amplexicaul or auriculate . . 2. G. bicolor. 



1. Gynura sarmentosa, DC. Prod. VI. 298. Stem and branches 

 loosely twining, glabrous except the puberulous peduncles, thinner than 

 a goose-quill, pale brown and striate when dry. Leaves succulent, 

 elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base cuneate, 

 the edges subentire or sHghtly dentate, both surfaces brown when 

 dry, glabrous ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, spreading, faint on both 

 surfaces ; length 1 to 3 in. ; breadth -4 to 1 in. ; petioles of the lower 

 leaves -15 to "4 in. ; the small upper leaves often sessile. Heads few, 

 •65 to -75 in. long, and as much in diam., on slender puberulous 



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