Epaltes.] Composite. 163 
axillary or terminal, solitary, nodding, on rather longer 
pedicels than L. alata; bracts linear, acuminate; achenes in- 
distinctly 10-ribbed; pappus white. 
Montane zone, on patanas, apparently rare, Ramboda Pass. F's. 
Feb. ; pale mauve. 
Also in Tropical Asia and Africa. 
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13. BPALTES Cass. 
Bracts longer than fils. ; ’ : . I. E, DIVARICATA. 
Bracts shorter than fls. . ; : . 2. E. PYGMZA, 
2. E. pygmea DC. Prodr. V, p. 461 (1836); Hk. f. in Fl. Brit. 
Ind. III, p. 274 (1882). 
Very like E. divaricata, but heads smaller; involucral 
bracts much shorter than the flowers. 
Arid region ; not uncommor ; IIlupailkaduvai, Mannar district ; Vaka- 
neri, E.P.; Mullaitivu. Fl. Feb.—Apr.; mauve. 
Also in S. India. 
The achenes are described as ‘‘ much smaller, ellipsoid, smooth and 
slightly angled, black ’’ but I do not find them different from those of 
E. divaricata. 
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14. SPHZZRANTHUS Linn. 
Dr. Robyns (Revision of the genus Spheranthus, in Kew Bull. 1924, 
p. 187) has a new Ceylon species which he separates from S. amaran- 
thoides as follows : 
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Heads reddish-brown, almost cylindrical, up 
- to 2°5 cm. long; subtending bracts mucron- 
ate; adaxial bracts truncate, with small 
teeth at the upper end; hermaphrodite 
flowers 2, corolla small, ovary round, with 
upper empty parts quite glabrous; female 
flowers 4 stipitate; ovary glabrous (said to 
be hairy in text p. 187) . : ; : ; 
Heads stramineous, broadly ovoid, less than 
1°5 cm. long; subtending bracts gradually 
long-acuminate, adaxial bracts truncate 
with a short mucro; hermaphrodite flower 
large, ovary rugose; female flowers 4 ses- 
sile; ovary hairy . ; : : : . Ia. S. zeylanicus. 
S. ZEYLANIcUS Heyne in Wall. Cat. no. 3180 (1828) nomen; Robyns 
in Kew Bull. p. 187 (1924). 
Without locality, but probably from Ceylon, Wight in Herb. Wallich 
3180 B, Wight 1416 (type). 
Also in S. India. 
I do not think that this is specially distinct from S. amaranthoides 
Burm. but the specimens at Peradeniya are insufficient for certainty. 
Part IfII. 
1. S. AMARANTHOIDES., 
