7. Oranoka,] 78. COMPOSIT.E. 



obtuse or with triang-ular points. Fruit flattened or subterete, pappiis 

 cupular, formed of the short calyx-tube and often a ring- of bristles 

 or short hairs. 

 1. G. maderaspatana, Polr. Bhediachim, S. 



A procumbent weed with woody rootstock and villous or hirsute 

 branches 3-4" or up to 10" long. Leaves oblong pinnatifid or lobulate, 

 often oak-leaf-shaped, villous, radical 1-3", cauline mostly '5-1" long. 

 Heads button-shaped 25-"4" diam. shortly peduncled, involucre bracts 

 2-3-seriate, outer herbaceous oblong -25" long. Outer fls. very 

 slender with long exserted style, inner usually with -i-lobed corolla. 

 Anthers appendaged oblong. Fruit stipitate 1" long, pale brown, 

 calyx-tube Avith a ring of short hairs. 



A common weed of rice fielcLs. wet yrouiul. etc. Patiia ! Chota Nagpur I 

 Santal P., Kurz ! Probably all districts. Fl., Fr. c.s. and li.s. 



The flower buds during an epileptic lit are introduced into the nostrils to restore 

 conscioiisness, Camphell (under Cenfipeda orbiciilaria).* 



8. CONYZA, Less. 



Herbs, sometimes large, wuth alternate entire or cut leaves and 

 corymbose or panicled heterogamous disciform yellow, or yellowish or, 

 in fruit, reddish heads of floAvers. Ray-flowers but outer flowers 2- 

 many-seriate filiform, 2-3-toothed, pale-coloured, inner hermaphrodite 

 yellow, tubular, limb 5-toothed. Involucre campanulate, bracts 2- 

 many-seriate, narrow, outer smaller. Receptacle naked or pitted and 

 fimbriate. Anther bases obtuse entire, connective usually produced. 

 Style arms of outer fls. flattened with long or short tips. Style arms 

 of lierm. fl. not very long, flattened, bearing the stigmatic surface in 

 tAvo marginal strips and with short brush-hairs tOAvards the tip. 

 Cypsele minute, compressed Avith visually nerAaform margins and Avith 

 slender 1-seriate soft pajjpus hairs. 



The genus Conyza connects the Asteroidete with the Jnuloidea; through Lamji-ra 

 and Bliimea, from which it differ.s in the constantly ecaudate anthers and st^de 

 arms flattened within with a more or less conical papillose tip. 



A, Heads very small. '1" diam. or less 1. stricto. 



B. Heads over '1" diam. : — 



1. Leaves entire, shallowlj' creuate or remotely serrate :^ 



Tall branched, 5-6 ft., minutely pubescent. Hds. pink . . 2. vi^viduhi. 

 Stems strict, 1-2 ft., grey A'illous. Hds. j'ellow. . . .3. amhigtia. 



2. Leaves distinctly toothed or lobulate : — 



Leaves lobulate. grey villous. Disc. fls. '2" long . . .4. aet] ij ptlaca , 

 lieaves serrate, hairy. Disc. fls. '15" long . . . . .5. japoiiU-a. 



1. C. stricta, Jf'illd. 



An erect herb 2— i ft. or in some cases -4 6 ft. high fastigiately 

 branched Avith linear, linear-obcuneate or (loAver) oblanceolate leaves 

 1-2" long shortly hairy or harshly pubescent both sides, entire or 

 somewhat toothed. Heads very numerous panicled small yellow ovoid 

 •1" long or less. Involucre bracts 07", linear, 2-seriate, Avith 1 or more 

 outer ones. Cypsele pale yelloAv '7 mm, only, puberulous, pappus 

 silky -07" rather scanty Avhite. 



In moist and grassy places on the hills and i)lateaux 2(X)0 ft. and above. Ranchi, 



* See note under Ceiitipeda. Avhich this little plant closely resembles. 

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