21. Knox i a.] 84. S TJBIA CE2E. 



1. K. corymbosa, Willd. 



Erect sparingly branched 1-4 ft. with longinarrow Bessile or petioled 

 leaves and minute white or purple flowers Bpicato on the cyme-branchea 

 Fruit separating from the persistent columella. 



Very common, attaining its largest size in damp ravines. Fls Auo - 

 Oct. Fr. Oct.-Dec. 9 ' 



2. K. brachycarpra, Bl. 



Erect strict herb 2-4 ft. with sessile linear-oblong obtuse leaves 2-4' 

 by H-" Cymes capitate or open. Fls. not spicate. Fruit falling away 

 with the columella. J 



Parasnath, Train. 



22. Rubia, L. 

 1. R. cordifolia, L. 



A herb scrambling by means of its scabrid stems and whorled ovate- 

 cordate long petioled leaves. Fls. minute yellow in panicled cymes. 

 Corolla rotate. Ovary 2-celled. Frt. £-£'' diam. fleshy, didymoua or 

 globose from the suppression of one carpel. 



Parasnath. Anders. 



Fam.85. COMPOSITE 



Shrubs or usually herbs, very rarely trees. L. usually alter- 

 nate, generally simple, stipules 0, base of petiole sometimes 

 sheathing:. Flowers clustered into dense heads resembling 

 single flowers, heads surrounded with an involucre of bracts. 

 Fls. in a head all similar, i.e., either all tubular or all ligulate 

 or dissimilar, i.e., either inner tubular and outer ligulate or- 

 outer of much more slender tubes (and sometimes with a 

 different number of petals) than the inner. Calyx 0, or a 

 pappus or scales. Anthers connate. Chary quite inferior 

 1- celled. Ovule 1, basal, erect, anatropous. Fruit dry 

 indehi scent. 



Some 60 species oconr in Ch. Nagpur, nearly all herbB, of which only 

 & few of the most striking are here mentioned. 



Heads with the fls. all tubular, similar and 

 bisexual. Not spinous. 



L. alt. Fls. purple. Pappus long . 1. Vernonia. 

 L opp. Fls. lilac. Pappus paleaceous 2. Agtratum 



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