7S. COMPOSIT.E. [38. Centipeda. 



with slender truncate and penicillate or shortly appendaged arms. 

 Cypsele linear, compressed or angular, base attenuate with con- 

 spicuous basilar callus. Paj)pus of few (usually 5-6) scales, some- 

 times aristate. 



1. T. patula, L. Genda, Gendu, Verii. 



Erect. Leaf segments linear-lane, with more or less spinulous 

 serratures. Heads solitary long-peduncled. Invol. glabrous. Corolla 

 golden to tawny. 



Banks of the Ganges, Kurz ! Cultivated in all Indian gardens. Native of 

 Mexico. Fl. chiefly r.s. 



37. COTULA, L. 



Small herbs with alt. pinnatifid or pinnatisect, rarely only toothed 

 or entire leaves. Heads small, pedvmcled, yellow, disciform. Outer 

 fls. fem. 1-2-seriate, corolla conic or 0. Centre fls. herm., tube 

 slender or stout and 2-winged, limb -i-lid. Invol. -bracts sub-2-seriate, 

 margins often scarious, receptacle naked. Anther-bases entire. 

 Style-arms of herm. fl. truncate or obtuse. Cypsele of the ray or all 

 stipitate, compi'essed, sometimes sheathed at top by the base of the 

 corolla, at others with a short ear-shaped pappus. 



Leaves with acute lobes. Outer cj'pseles alate or margins 



thickened 1. fuifhemoiden. 



Leaves with spinule-tipped lobes. Cypseles small angled, not 



alate 2. hemi»pherica. 



1. C. anthemoides, L. 



A small prostrate herb with leaves 1-2-pinnatifid or 1-2-pinnatisect, 

 •3 -"75" long, segments with lanceolate lobes. Peduncles often very 

 slender. Outer cypseles broad flat Avith winged margins, often much 

 thickened. 



Gangetic Plain from Rajmahal (Santal Parganas) westwards ( Jide F.B.I.). Fl., 

 Fr, Feb. -March. 



2. C. hemispherica, Wall. 



A small suberect, prostrate or diffuse herb with many stems 

 3-8" long often thickened below, glabrous or villous above, with 

 pinnatisect leaves •5-2", segments linear spinulose or with 2-3 

 spinulose or mucronate teeth towards the ends, i\ppermost leaves 

 simple. Heads small yellow solitary peduncled, 17" diam. on short 

 peduncles, erect in flower, inclined or drooping in fruit. Outer fls. 

 minute with 2-toothed or corolla. Cypseles angled, not winged. 



Along river banks. Purneah, Kurz ! Fl., Fr. Jan. -April. 



Both are rather pretty little plants with Anfhemia-Uke foliage. This has leaves 

 more finely cut than in C. anthemoides with rather wide rhachis. 



38. CENTIPEDA, Lour. 



Herbs with alt., often toothed leaves and small heads sessile on the 



branches or racemose, disciform, yellow or pale grey. Outer fls. fem., 



many-seriate with minute obscurely-lobed corolla. Centre fls. few 



herm. Avith short tube and campanulate 4-fid limb. Invol. bracts 



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