78. C0MFOSIT.E. l23. Eclipta. 



membranoiis concave pales often enclosing the flowers. Style arms 

 of herm. fl. short flattened subacute. Cypsele obovoid-oblong, not 

 compressed, obtuse. Pappus 0. 



1. S. orientalis, L. 



A branched rather coarse annual 2-5 ft. high with pubescent stems, 

 opp. ovate coarsely crenate, softly pubescent leaves with the blade 

 decurrent on the petiole, larger 7" by 3", upper gradually smaller. 

 Heads very small yelloAv, easily recognised by the 5 long outer linear- 

 spathvilate glandular invol. bracts and the inner embracing the 

 flowers and black cypseles. 



Common in somewhat damp localities under shade :— Chota Naginir ! probably in 

 all districts. Fl., Fr. c.s. , , -r -., ■ , . 



Leaves 3-nerved. Outer fls. few. ligulate, 3-toothed. Inner with apiculate 

 anthers. 



22. ENHYDRA, Low: 

 Marsh herbs with opposite sessile sometimes gland-punctate leaves 

 and axillary subsessile heads terminal, unilateral or in alternate axils, 

 heterogamous, sub-radiate. Ray fls. fem. many- seriate Avith minute 

 broad 3-4-toothed ligule. Disc fls. herm. fertile or inner sterile, 5-fid. 

 Invol. bracts 4 foliaceous and sometimes petaloid in opposite pairs. 

 Becept. Avith pales enclosing the floAvers, tipped with glandular hairs. 

 Anther bases obtuse. Style arms of herm. fl. flattened oblong obtuse, 

 tips hispid. Cypsele oblong, enclosed in the rigid jsales, outer dorsally, 

 inner sometimes laterally compressed. Pappus 0. 



1. E. fluctuans, Lour. Harhuch, if. ; Hingeha, Seng. 



Stems prostrate rooting at the nodes, succulent, with short 

 ascending flowering hairy branches and flowers in yellow heads, the 

 four greenish-yellow involucral bracts or leaves giving the heads the 

 appearance of single flowers. 



River-beds, Ranchi, 2000 ft. 1 Fl., Fr. Dec. -Jan. 



Leaves narrowly oblong 1-2" serrate, gland punctate beneath. Heads terminal 

 and axillary sessile, -S-T" diam. Corolla of ray-flower 3-lobed to one .side. 



23. ECLIPTA, L. 



Strigose or hirsute herbs with opposite leaves and small peduncled 

 axillary or terminal heterogamoiis rayed heads. Invol. broadly cam- 

 panulate with bracts 3-seriate, outer herbaceous, large and broad. 

 Eay fls. fem. sub-2-seriate, fertile or sterile, with small entire or 

 2-toothed Avhite (rarely yellow) ligule. Disc fls. Avith broad-cam- 

 panulate 4-5-fid limb. Receptacle flat, outer pales narroAv, flat,* inner 

 narrow filiform* or 0. Anther bases obtuse. Style-arms flattened 

 Avith short or triangular obtuse appendages. Cypsele of ray narroAv, 

 .3-quetrous, often barren; of disc stouter, laterally sub-compressed. 

 Pappus of teeth or 2-aristate or obsolete. 



* The F.B.I., following the Genera Flantarum, states that the pales enclose 

 several flowers. I do not find this. Even if the third series of bracts be regarded 

 as pales, these are narrow and flat and do not enclose any fls. 



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