Order 64. Composite. 159 



gent, flowers in dense clusters, subsessile. Not in D, or G. Konkan 

 Hills, Dalzell (#.). 



Epaltes, outer florets in many series, female, filiform, centre 

 hermaphrodite, bracts in many series, pappus none. E. divaricata, 

 small prostrate, much-branched herb, leaves oblong, broader above, 

 slightly decurrent, flowers one or two together, flat topped, contain- 

 ing an immense number of pink florets. Malwan in rice fields. H. 

 calls it erect, 4 to 8 inches high. 



Blepkarispermum, flowers in close round clusters, bracts mostly 

 chaffy. *B. subsessile (Leucoblepharis s. D.). A smooth under shrub, 

 leaves ovate or elliptic shining, clusters of flowers with large leafy 

 floral leaves. Ghauts (D-), Dharwar (G.), Konkan and Canara (H.}. 



Heliclirysum, very like Gnaphalium in generic features. *H. 

 Buddleioides. A shrub 4 to 6 feet high, densely cottony, leaves 

 large sessile lanceolate, flowers yellow in many round clusters, 

 inner bracts with a scarious blade. Along the Ghauts (H.). Not in 

 D. or &. 



Inula. Flowers rayed, outer bracts herbaceous. *I. Grantioides, 

 a low stout, woody shrub with balsamic smell, leaves fleshy trifid, 

 flowers large, solitary, yellow, rays few and short, bracts hairy and 

 sticky. Not in D. Cutch and Sind. 



15. C^SULIA. 



Note. I have put this at the end of the tribe, as being very unlike 

 all the other genera ; it is in fact not easy to recognize it as belong- 

 ing to the order, and the same may be said of Flavieria. 



G. axillaris. A rather pretty plant, often prostrate, stem 

 purple and mottled, leaves lanceolate, dilated into a broad stem- 

 clasping base, which contains the sessile heads of pale-coloured 

 flowers ; the leaf bases and the few floral leaves are violet and 

 veined, style black. 



Bombay, Konkan and Deccan ; common in wet ground. Through- 

 out N. India (H.}. 



(5) HELIANTHOIDEJS. 



16. LAGASOA. 



L. mollis. A common-looking much-branched herb, leaves 

 ovate acuminate silky, flowers in round long-stalked heads of 

 many white florets, heads surrounded by floral leaves. 



A South American plant, now very common about Poona and else- 

 where. 



17. SlEGESBECKIA. 



8. orientalis. A branched plant with woody stem, leaves 

 ovate, coarsely toothed, softly hairy, flowers small, yellow, 

 solitary, short-stalked, with few florets, inner bracts united 

 enclosing the florets, outer 5, linear slightly dilated at the top 

 achenes angular black. 



