1 54 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



*V. antlielmintica. Large, stout, leaves lanceolate, coarsely- 

 serrated, flowers purple in corymbs, bracts linear with broad 

 purplish tips. Kala jira. 



2. ELEPHANTOPOUS. 



E. scaber. Coarse, rough and hairy, leaves large obovate 

 radical, flat on the ground, flowers purple, floral leaves cordate, 

 acute, spinous. Mhdka, pdthri. 



Common in the Konkan and Ghauts. -Throughout India (//.) The 

 leaves, in growth and shape like those of the primrose, appear at 

 the beginning of the rains, and raise hopes of something good. 

 Nothing more appears till about September, when a tall and pro- 

 mising stem shoots up, and, after further waiting, develops as plain 

 and uninteresting a flower as could be seen. 



Centrantherum, bracts in many series, inner dry, outer herbaceous. 

 C. phyllolcenum (Decaneurum molle, !>.). Erect, branched, leaves 

 ovate, roughish above, woolly below, bristle-serrated, flowers solitary 

 purple, rather handsome. Dapoli. S. Konkan (D.). The other species 

 are not in (D.), *C. tcnue, very like this, butimore slender with smaller 

 flowers, and only one or two of the leafy bracts. Konkan (If.). 

 Matheran (Birdwood). *C. courtallense, similar, but leaves often quite 

 entire, and coarse hairs all about ; Canara (H.). *C. Ritchiei, branches 

 smooth, sometimes shining, the outer leafy bracts 2 to 6, large cordate ; 

 Konkan and Canara (//.). *C. Hookeri. Stiff, branches angled and 

 grooved, leaves linear lanceolate, flowers red, involucre with no 

 leafy bracts. Konkan (H.). 



Lamprachccnium, bracts in many series all dry, pappus hairs few and 

 short. *L. Microcephalum, erect branched annual, leaves white 

 beneath, elliptic, flowers small in heads or panicles, bracts acute> 

 pappus reddish. Parwar Ghaut (D.). Smells of chamomile. Very 

 like Centrantherum tenue (H.). 



Adenoon, bracts in many series awned, outer shorter, pappus 

 none. *A. Indicum, erect, branched, stems angular and grooved, 

 leaves broad ovate, glandular, flowers panicled, blue. Kusumb, 

 Moti Sonki. Parwar Ghaut and Belgaum, (D. and G.) : Mahableshwar 

 (CooJce). 



(2) EUPATORIE*:. 



3. ADENOSTEMMA. 



A. viscosum (A. latifoUum and A. rivale, D.). A tall, 

 strong-smelling weed, hairy or viscid, with rough nettle-shaped 

 leaves coarsely serrated, and heads of small white flowers in 

 panicles, bracts narrow, about equal ; achenes often warted. 

 Rangirtn. 



Konkan, Deccan and Cutch. Throughout India, and varying very 

 much, especially as to hairiness, breadth of leaves and wartiness of 

 achenes (fl.). 



