17. Inula.] ^ 7S. COMPOSITjE. 



Avith long, short minute, or ligule. Central fls. herm. tubular, 

 yellow, tube slightly wider upwards, 5-toothed. Invol. bracts many- 

 senate, outer herbaceous, with the outermost often foliaceous. 

 Kecept pitted or areolate. Anther bases with simple or branched 

 tails, those ot adjacent anthers sometimes connate. Style-arms of 

 herm. fl. linear, broader upwards, obtuse. Cypsele usually ribbed 

 Pappus hairs rather short, 1-2-seriate, smooth scabrid or bearded. 



1. I. Cappa, DC. 



A stout shrub ;3-J. ft. high with leaves white woolly beneath, denti- 

 culate with short mucronate teeth or some coarsely toothed Heads 

 •3---4 long in close corymbs 2-4" diam. Involucre -2" diam. at base 

 slightly narrowed upwards with very many linear acuminate silky 

 bracts. J lorets very many deep yellow, ligules (sometimes present 

 in forms outside our area) . Cypsele -06" silky. Pappus dirty white, 

 hairs slightly thicker at the ends. 



Sandstones of Ramnagar Hills, 1800 ft. and above ! Fl , Fr Oct -Dec 

 ,nnnrm;«t'I^"H!. "T'^''- ^^'>\^% ^'^" "^^'o^vly elliptic with ail acute very sharply 

 '^iS^S^^^'l::^' ^^:.^^'''^'''' ''''^'- I>o"ger bracts -2".' n.\l 

 Our plant descriljetl above differs in several details from the higher level form. 



18. YICOA, Cass. 

 Herbs with alt. entire or toothed leaves, upper amplexicaul. Heads 

 radiate and heterogamous or disciform and homogamous, solitary 

 terminal or on leaf-opposed peduncles. Ptay fis., if present l-->' 

 seriate, fem 2-3 toothed. Disc fls. herm., slender, hardly dilated, 

 5-toothed. Invol. campanulate, bracts many-seriate, narrow with 

 scarious margins. Eecept. without pales but margins of pits 'some- 

 times toothed. Anther leases with slender tails. Style arms of herm 

 H. flattened, broader upwards, ol)tuse or truncate, quite smooth 

 l^ypsele small, hardly ribbed. Pappus hairs 1-seriate, slender : of rav 

 tew or 0. ^ 



Very close to Innh, and Sir J. D. Hooker says best united with it 

 Pubescent or glabrescent. L. 3 1 times as long as broad. Involucre 



bracts not villous ... 1 ■ /• 



Villous. L. 2-3 times as long as broad.* In^ol. bract's villous." .' ." 2. [■ett7h,\ 



1. Y. indica, DC. Syn. Inula indica, L.; Y. auriculata, Cass. 



A much branched rather rigid erect herb with slender stems and 

 branches, 2-3 ft. high and somewhat reminding one of a Eao-wort or 

 J^leabane. Leaves sessile from a broad auricled base, narrow 2-i" 

 long, acuminate papillose-pubescent and with small glistenincr 

 glands beneath, sparsely hispidulous above. Heads solitary in laro-e 

 corymbose loo.se panicles at the top, yellow, •8-1-2" diam., with lio-ules 

 2-3 long. Cypsele of herm. fl. brown terete hairy -01." long. "^ 



A,yf'7r'"V'?' '" "V®J3 J'liisrles on day soils in C'hota Nagpur ! Exrendincr to 

 Angul, teambalpurandKalahandi ! Fl.,Fr. Nov.-May vtciiuia„ u, 



Stems slender pale-br,nvn smooth. Leaves entire or "serrulate, somewhat ruo-ose 

 Ser 'sZrsnhnH/^"' ^""T'^- l''^''^"!^!^^ «'ender bracteate. Involuc. bracts 

 ?^fVL i ?! bubu ate, inner linear acuminate, all glandular. Receptacle deeolv 

 pitted with margins of pits slightly toothe.l and paberulous. TailL of a.lIceS 

 anthers connate. Cypsele of ray flowers quite smooth and without pappus ^ 



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