170 Composite. [ Cotula. 
C. austraLis Hk. f. Pl. N.Z. p. 128 (1864). 
A prostrate annual herb; leaves deeply divided, obovate in 
outline, up to 1 in. long; heads under { in. in diam., on 
terminal peduncles 1-23 in. long. 
A common weed of cultivation about Nuvara Eliya; also recorded 
from Dimbula. ; 
A native of Australia. 
Page 42.—For Centipeda orbicularis Lour. read: 
C. minima A. Br. & Aschers. Ind. Sem. Hor. Berol., App. p. 6 
(1867). Artemisia minima Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 849 (1753). Centipeda 
orbicularis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 473 (1790). C. minuta Benth. in 
Gen, Pl. II, p. 230 (1873); Clarke Comip. Ind. p.' 151 (7876) 
29a. ERECHTITES Raf. 
Erect annual or perennial herbs; leaves alternate, lobed 
or simple; heads in terminal corymbs; involucra cylindrical; 
involucral bracts in I series, narrow, equal; receptacle naked, 
flat; outer florets female, corolla 3-5-toothed at apex; disk 
florets hermaphrodite, regular, 5-toothed; anther-bases ob- 
tuse, entire; style-arms elongate, truncate at apex; achenes 
5-1o-ridged or angled; pappus copious.—Sp. 12; America 
and Australia. 
E. VALERIAN4FOLIA DC. Prodr. VI, p. 295 (1837). 
Stem up to 3 ft. high; leaves pinnatifid or rarely subentire, 
3-5 in. long, glabrous, without auricles; heads under + in. 
across; involucral bracts narrow, 0-4 in. long ; achenes light 
brown. 
A common weed in cultivated ground in the moist region below 
2000.ft. Il. Dec., Mar. ; pale mauve: 
A native of Brazil. 
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30. GyNURA Cass. 
Leaves with a pair of large auricles at base: 
Achene slightly hairy; stem _ reddish- 
purple; fils. orange . : . I. G. LYCOPERSECIFOLIA. 
Achene hispid ; stem green ; fls. bright 
yellow. 2. G. ZEYLANICA. 
Leaves without auricles or with occasional 
solitary ones: 
Leaves deeply and regularly sees 
fls. dull yellow; stem green . . 2a. G. pseudo-china. 
Leaves simple or irregularly lobed : 
Leaves densely hispid; fis. eee 
yellow ; achenes glabrous ; 3. G. HISPIDA. 
Leaves subglabrous ; fls. brick-red ; “stem 
green . : ‘ ; : . 4. G. crepidioides. 
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