ge: Composite. [ Emilia. 
in lax, terminal corymbs; involucral bracts } in. long, % as 
long as the flowers, about 7; outer flowers spreading. 
Low country, a weed of cultivation, common. Peradeniya. FI. all 
the year, pale mauve. 
Also Tropical Asia and Africa. 
Garabedian (I. c.) quotes for this C. coccinea Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 564 
which has red flowers. The flowers are stated to be purple by Vahl 
and Burmann. In my specimens they were pale mauve. 
2a. E. PRENANTHOIDEA DC. Prodr. VI, p. 305 (1837); Garab. 1. c. 
p:.140 (1924); Hk. f. in Fl, Brit. Ind. W1,,p. 336 (aeaae 
There are specimens at Peradeniya that may be this species. E. 
Walkeri is regarded as a distinct species by Garabedian. 
3. BE. scabra DC. Prodr. VI, p. 304 (1837); Garab. in Kew Bull. 
1924, p. 141 Wight Ic. t. 1123 (1843). E. sonchifolia var. scabra Hk. f. 
in Fl. Beit. Ind. 111,-p. 336 (1882): 
Stem decumbent at base, not rooting, sparsely puberu- 
lous; leaves 14-34 in. long, pandurate, rounded at apex, 
pubescent, the upper lanceolate, with rounded auricles; 
heads in lax, terminal corymbs; involucral bracts 4 in. long, 
over 2 as long as the flowers, about 7; outer flowers spread- 
ing. 
Montane zone, a weed of cultivation, common. Hakgala; Hunas- 
giriya; Adam’s Peak. Fls. Nov.; bright purple. 
Also in the S. Indian Mts. 
naee Ac 
Notonia grandiflora DC. 
Westminster Abbey (F. Lewis). 
33a. CarDuus Linn. 
C. PYCNOCEPHALUS Linn. Sp. PI., ed. 2, p. 115 (1762); Jacq. Hort. 
Ving 1p. 47-12 44: 
This species has occurred as a weed at Nuvara Eliya. It is a native 
of Europe and N. Africa. 
34a. Hypocuzris Linn. 
Perennial or rarely annual herbs; leaves radical, entire 
or pinnatifid; heads in corymbs or solitary; involucral bracts 
multiseriate; receptacle flat, paleaceous; fils. all hermaphro- 
dite; rayed, 5-toothed at apex; anth. sagittat€ ab fase. 
achenes oblong or linear, 1-ridged, slightly contracted at 
base, more or less beaked; pappus I-seriate, plumose, some- 
times with another series of simple hairs.—Sp. 30; Tem- 
perate regions. 
H. rapicata Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 810 (1753). 
An erect perennial herb, up to 2 ft. high; leaves radical. 
pinnatifid, spathulate in outline, up to 5 in. long, hispid; 
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