3O The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



much as the last, flowers pink, in clusters at the end of the branches ; 

 carpels obovoid. Kdld vdld. 



7. DECASCHISTA. 



* D. trilobata. A hairy shrub, lower leaves deeply 3-lobed, 

 upper sometimes entire, flowers large, capsule rough. 

 S. Ghauts, D. Belgaum, near the Ghauts, ((?.) 



8. PIlBlSCUS. 



1. H, furcatus. A large climber covered with recurved 

 prickles and prickly hairs, stem and branches much coloured, 

 leaves long petioled palmately 3 to 5 lobed, serrated ; involucre 

 with leafy appendages on the back ; flowers very large and 

 handsome, yellow with purple throat, capsule brown conical, 

 hidden in the calyx. 



Common on the Ghauts ; found also in the Konkan and Bombay. 

 Hotter parts of India (T.). 



H. describes it as shrubby erect, which is not true of this Presi- 

 dency, and the flowers as 4 inches in diameter, which they are not 

 with us. 



2. H. Ttirtus. A shrubby hairy plant with 3-lobed or entire 

 ovate leaves and pretty white flowers, solitary and long 

 stalked ; involucre of 5 to 7 subulate segments shorter than 

 the calyx, capsule melon-shaped, seeds covered with white 

 silky hairs. 



Very common at the lower part of the Ghauts. Both plants and 

 flowers of this are much smaller than those of most of the other 

 species. It is often cultivated (H.). 



3. H. micranthus. A strong shrubby rough plant, with 

 petioled ovate leaves deeply serrated, flowers small solitary pink, 

 capsule round, seeds as in the last. 



Deccan, Kattywar, and Kaira in hedges. Hotter parts of India, 

 H. He calls it variable, and quotes E. that it may be a variety of the 

 last. 



4. H. cannaldnus. Tall, thick-stemmed prickly, leaves long 

 petioled palmate, flowers very handsome, pale yellow with 

 crimson or claret centre, involucre segments 5 or more, calyx 

 much longer, hairy and warty; capsule nearly round, pointed, 

 covered with silky stinging hairs. Ambari. 



Cultivated for the fibre; the leaves eaten as a vegetable, and the 

 capsules used for oil. The calyx and involucre become hard and 

 bristly when dry. 



5. H. paitdurceformis. A tall, much-branched very hairy 



