1 5 8 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



and strong-smelling, stem petioles and peduncles irregularly 

 winged, leaves oblong, broader at the top, toothed, flowers 

 purple in round heads, florets many minute, bracts shorter and 

 slender. Mundi, Kharak-shepu, nai. 

 Common in rice fields in the cold weather. 



12. GNAPHALIUM. Cudweed. 



G. Indicum. A small diffuse weed, branched from the root, 

 all covered with white cotton, leaves oblong or linear, heads of 

 flowers small in spikes with scarcely any colour, but becoming 

 brown and rough when withering. 



Common throughout India (H.). It is very like the English (7. 

 uliginosum. 



G. hypoleucum, very similar, but leaves stem clasping and auricled, 

 flowers yellow. Wara in the Poona districts. Abu (Dalzill*. Not in 

 D. Mr. Birdwood has at Matheran G, leucoalbum, smaller than this 

 and the leaves not auricled. 



13. VlCOA. 



V. auriculata (V. Indica, D.). Erect branched, leaves 

 sessile, lanceolate, auricled, much wrinkled, flowers small, 

 solitary or twin, long-stalked, like camomile. 



Deccan, Konkan, Cutch. Drier parts of India (#.). 



* V. cernua, like this, but lower leaves petioled, flowers drooping, 

 bracts with recurved margins. Konkan Hills and Belgaum (D. and 

 H.). 



14. PULICARIA. Fleabane, 



P. Wightiana (Callisteplms w. D.) Strong erect branched, 

 leaves sessile linear oblong, flowers solitary long-stalked, yellow, 

 outer bracts leafy. 



Common in the Deccan. Peduncles swollen upwards (E.). *P. 

 angustifolia (Callistephus concolor, D.). Much smaller in every respect, 

 " the ligules very deciduous, if indeed they are always present" (H.). 

 Mdlwan (D.), Cutch (PaZm.). 



jVofe. Most of the English fleabanes are woolly, but the above are 

 not BO. 



To this tribe also belong Pluchea, florets as in Blumea, but the 

 few central florets are sterile, bracts ovate, broad, dry. *P. Walii- 

 chiana. A tall shrub, glandular, hairy and rough, leaves sessile, 

 obovate, flowers pink in corymbs. Dhej, Guzerat (D.)- Sindh (H.). 

 *P. Indica, 6 or 8 feet high, hedges in Cutch (Palin.). 



Nanofhamnus, florets as in the last, but very few of either sort, 

 bracts in many series lanceolate, dry, pappus none. *N. sericeus, 

 a small rigid woolly herb, stems very many, leaves lanceolate, pun- 



