Order 64. Composites. 1 6 1 



A native of tropical Africa, commonly cultivated for the oil ; a 

 field of it in full flower is a bright and splendid object. On the 

 Konkan hills it is often seen growing high up on steep and appa- 

 rently inaccessible slopes. 



Note. That the black seeds of Sesamun Indicnm, which are com- 

 paratively rare, are also called Kdla til (Lisboa.) 



22. GLOSSOCARDIA. 



G. linearifolia (G. Bosvallea, D.) A very small diffuse 

 plant, stem angled, leaves of many filiform segments, petioles 

 long and channelled, flowers solitary, short-stalked, yellow, ray 

 florets only one or two. Fattarsuva. 



Poona, Cutch. Common (D.). Has the smell of fennel (H.). 



23. BIDENS. Bur marigold. 



B. pilosa (B. WallicJiii, D.). A tall, rather lax, slightly 

 hairy plant, leaves pinnate, or pinnatifid, leaflets or segments 

 ovate deeply cut, petioles long and channelled, flowers yellow, 

 long-stalked, solitary or corymbose, ray florets very few or none 

 achenes with hooked awns. 



Deccan, Bombay, &c. Throughout India, exceedingly variable (H.). 

 It has the general appearance of the common agrimony, rather than, 

 of the English species of this genus. 



To this tribe belong Sclerocarpus ; flowers rayed, ray florets neuter 

 in one series, disk florets hermaphrodite, bracts few outer spreading, 

 receptacle raised. S. Africanus, straggling branched, rough, leaves 

 broad ovate, flowers solitary yellow, disk florets about 12. Nasik, 

 Junar Hills (D.)> Konkan (H.) The achenes which are covered by 

 the skin-like pales develop early, and separate the ray florets. 



Ittainvilea, herbs, ray florets female, few or none, disk florets 

 tubular, hermaphrodite, bracts few, outer herbaceous, inner passing 

 into the dry scales of the receptacle. B. latifolia, erect rough, leaves 

 ovate, flowers mostly sessile small white, ligules few, 2-cleft, outer 

 bracts about 5, soft oblong. Poona, &c. No hab. (D.). Cutch, Palin. 

 Glossogyne, flowers small, scarcely rayed, florets very few, bracts 

 few, inner oblong with membranous margins. *6r. pinnatifida, smooth 

 erect, leaves mostly radical, pinnatifid or pinnate with narrow seg- 

 ments, flowers small yellow, bracts linear obtuse, achenes deeply 

 grooved. S. M. country (D.) 



H. also puts in this tribe Xanthium, which has generally had a tribe 

 to itself, as being anomalous. Upper flowers round of many tubular 

 male florets, females below of 2 apetalous florets ; bracts of female 

 flowers closing and covering the achenes. *X. strumarium (X. 

 Indicum, D.). A coarse rough herb, leaves heart-shaped or 3-lobed, 

 florets dull purple, fruit ovate 2-beaked, covered with hooked bristles. 

 Common, especially about rivers in S. M. country (#.). Hotter parts 

 of India (H.). Shankeswar. Found in England, but not commonly. 



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