7^. GOMPOSIT.E. [3-i. Tridax. 



lig-viles whitish with dark veins, about -1" broad. Cypsele linear 

 sulcate Z" long with the awns widely spreading Avlien ripe. 



Plateaux of Chota Na^pur ! Fl., Fr. April-Nov. It usually flowers after the 

 firing of the grass lands in which it is found. 



32. GLOSSOCARDIA, Cass. 



A small herb with alt. slender 1-2-pinnatisect leaves. Heads 

 small terminal and axillary, rayed, yellow. Kay fls. usually one only 

 Avith 2-fid ligule, female. Disc fls. herm., few fertile, 4-fid. Invol. 

 oblong with few bracts, inner oblong with broad membranous 

 margins. Pales on receptacle flat. Style-arms of herm. Avith linear 

 acute hispid tips. Cypsele narroAvly oblong, dorsally much com- 

 pressed, faces bearded. Pappus of 2 smooth stiff awns. 



1. G. linearifolia, Cass. 



A curious little plant 1-6", rarely 10" high, branched, glabrous 

 with the leaves cut into linear segments and somewhat shining 

 oblong heads '3" long remarkable for the few large oblong black 

 2-horned cypseles, very hairy on the faces. 



Chiefly amongst rocks. Singbhum ! Ranchi ! FL. Fr. Sei)t.-Oct. It is also 

 found in the Central Provinces and will ijrobably therefore be found in other of the 

 western districts. 



The iuvolueral bracts spread after the fall of the cypseles. 



33. CHRYSANTHELLUM, Rich. 

 Annual glabrous herbs with alternate jjinnatifid or radical toothed 

 leaves. Hds. small, rayed. Ray fls. fem. 1-seriate with spreading 

 yelloAv ligule. Disc fls. herm. with very short tube and a cam- 

 panulate 5-lobed limb. Recept. flat with narrow scarious jDales. 

 Style-arms of herm fl. with long subulate arms. Cypsele oblong or 

 linear-oblong, dorsally compressed, outer sometimes tubercled, thick 

 with obtuse margins, inner smooth flat margined or 2-winged. Pappus 

 a minute corona or 0. 



1. C. indicum, BC. 



Stems numerous spreading and procumbent, branched and leafy, 

 from 3" in some cases to 1 ft. long. Leaves •5-2", rarely 3" long, 

 deltoid, 2-pinnatifid, final segments broadly linear or cuneate. 

 Heads peduncled -lo-'J." diam. in floAver, •25-3" in fruit, with the 

 invol. bracts Avidely spreading, nerved, oblong Avith rounded or 

 apiculate tips, golden yellow. Cypseles •I" long, outer thick corky 

 umbonate sub-compressed, 3-grooved on each face, inner (strongly 

 resembling the mericarp of an Umbellifer) someAvhat obovate, com- 

 pressed, ridged on each face and Avith lighter-coloured margins. 



Common on banks, open pasture, etc., in Chota Nagpur ! Behar, Bengal Plants. 

 Fl., Fr. Sept.-Dec. 



34. TRIDAX, L. 



Herbs Avith oj)posite toothed, lobed or pinnatisect leaves. Heads 

 on very long peduncles, rayed. Kay fls. fem. ligulate or 2-lipped 

 with the outer lip large 3-fid or -partite, the inner small 2-lobed or 

 -parted or 0. Disc. fls. herm. tubular, slightly Avider upAvards, 5-lobed. 



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