78. COMPOSIT.E. [19. Pulicaria. 



2. Y. Yestita, Bcnth. 



A shorter stouter plant than the hist, 6-15" high, woolly and softly 

 hairy, with oblong- or linear-oblong obtuse or subacute serrate leaves 

 1-2" long. Involucre bracts -2" with squarrose filiform recurved tips. 

 Cypsele subsilky. 



Banks of the Ganges, Santal Targanas, Kurz I Patiia, J.D.H.l Baukipur ! 

 Befctiab, J/Jero;^!/w«s !"F1. March-May. 



Steins soineti'mes purple corymbosely branched above but sometimes flowering 

 when only 4," high. L. half amplexicaul with broad subcordate base, villous 

 rarely 2-5" long. Peduncles 1-2" villous. Heads solitary axillary and terminal 

 -6-"7''' diam. with linear ligules -2" long. 



19. PULICARIA, Gaertn. 

 Herbs, usually woolly (Dr villous, with alt. sessile, often amplexicaul 

 leaves. Heads solitary radiate or disciform, yelloAv. Ray fl. if 

 present, female, ligules narrow or minute or 0. Disc fls. herm., 

 slender shortly 5-fid. Invol. hemispheric or obconic, bracts few- 

 seriate, narrow actuninate or a^vned. Receptacle pitted. Anther-cells 

 with capillary tails, simple or branched. Style-arms of herm.-fl. 

 linear, obtuse. Cypsele smooth or ribbed. Pappus double, outer of 

 short jagged teeth, inner of filiform or flattened hairs. 



A. Pappus hairs deciduous leaving the scales : — 



Heads ligulate. Cypsele glabrous. Hoot perennial . . . I. (Difjiixfifolia. 

 Heads disciform, homogamous. Cypsele hairy. Annual . . 2. foUolom. 



B. Pappus hairs thickenetl at the tips, connate with the scales and 



decid\ious with them. Suifruticose :— 

 Heads ligulate. Cypsele nearly glabrous Perennial . . . 3. crispa. 



1. P. angustifolia, BG. 



A herb with many diffuse or suberect pubescent branches 6-12" 

 long from a perennial rootstock, clothed with sessile linear or linear- 

 oblanceolate, rarely somewhat obovate, toothed or entire leaves about 

 1" long and gradually smaller upwards, becoming bractiform on the 

 terminal peduncle. Heads bright yellow •7-1-2" diam. Invol. broadly 

 campanulate, bracts linear to linear-oblong, -2" long, subequal erect 

 and pubescent with slightly squarrose acute scarious tips. Ray fls. 

 about 1.5-20, •35---1" long. Pappus hairs slender pubescent slightly 

 thicker upwards, as long as or exceeding- the corolla tube, with an 

 outer ring of minute scales. Cypseles pale-brown -07" hispid-puberu- 

 lous, not ribbed. 



Open places. Plateaux of Chota Nagpur :— Ranchi, Clarke I Neterhat! FL, Fr. 

 May-Get. . ., 



L. sometimes all about -5", lower sometimes I'o", with a nerve parallel to midno 

 each side. Peduncles not thickened above. Corolla of disc flowers -18". Anthers 

 long linear short-tailed. 



2. P. foliolosa, DC. 



A densely branched leafy annual 8"-2 ft. high, pubescent or tomen- 

 tose but not Avhite-cottony, with half-amplexicaul linear-oblong or 

 oblanceolate leaves 1-2", or lower up to -i" long and spathulate-oblong. 

 Heads very numeroiis, orange-red, lateral and terminal, ■25--3"diam. 

 Invol.-bracts narrowly linear, glandidar and sparsely pilose or ciliate. 

 Ray fls. filiform tubular, ligules 0. 



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