Order 64. Composites. 155 



4. AGERATUM. 



*A. conyzoides. Rough, hairy and strong- smelling, leaves 

 ovate, cuneate, flowers small, pale purple in dense terminal 

 corymbs, bracts linear, about equal, achenes black. Ganera, 

 oscidi. 



Not in D., but G. calls it one of the commonest weeds in gardens 

 at Belgaum, Bombay, and elsewhere. Throughout India and in all 

 hot countries (#.) 



(3) ASTEROIDE^. 



5. DlCROCEPHALA. 



D. latifolia. Erect, about a foot high, all hairy, leaves 

 obovate, toothed, lobed at the base, flowers in very small heads 

 of many minute florets, the centre ones yellow, the outer silvery 

 or lilac. 



Mahableshwar and elsewhere in the Ghauts. Widely spread in 

 India: leaves very variable (H.}. 



6. CYATHOCLINE. 



1. C. lyrata (C. stricta, D.). A delicate, leafy, greyish plant, 

 erect, covered with clammy white hairs, leaves much divided, 

 lobes serrated, flowers in small rather flat corymbs, purple. 

 Gangotri. 



Banks of streams in Konkan and W. Deccan. 



2. 0. lutea (C. Lawii, D.). A very pretty delicate-looking 

 plant, with pinnatifid or much divided leaves pressed flat 

 on the ground, stem about four inches high, almost leafless, 

 branched, flowers bright yellow, button-shaped. 



" A curious and very beautiful little plant" (fl.). The leaves are 

 like miniature copies of those of the well-known English "milfoil" 

 or " yarrow." 



Lanoli. The Ghauts and Konkan : and nowhere else (fl.)* 

 7. GRANGEA. 



G. maderaspatana. Prostrate, much branched, covered with 

 white clammy hairs, leaves sinuate or pinnatifid, flowers bright 

 yellow in nearly round flat-topped heads ; florets very numerous 

 minute. Mashipatri. 



In rice fields and similar places in the cold weather. Throughout 

 India (H.). 



8. CONYZA. 

 C. stricta (C. absinthe/alia, D.). A handsome erect plant, stem 



