Order 64. Composites. 1 63 



numerous, involucre about as long as the flowers. Sddhi- 

 mandi. 



Common in many places. Throughout India (H.), but not in D. 

 H. has three varieties. 



E. flaminea (B. sagittata, D.). A garden species very like this, bat 

 with showy red flowers, is said by H. to be very commonly culti- 

 vated, and probably not a native of India. 



27. NoTONIA. 



* N. grandiflora. A small fleshy shrub with thick stem and 

 branches, leaves oblong or obovate entire, flowers large, long- 

 pedicelled, pale yellow, corymbose, achenes smooth. Wdndar 

 rotti, gaidar. 



Kandalla, Mahableshwar and other high places : and common in 

 gardens. 



* N. Balsamica, very like this, but distinguishable by the pappus, 

 which is of stiff flattened hairs, while those of N. grandiflora are 

 slender and round. Gaozabdn,pirang. The Ghauts, rare (D.). Both 

 are called the cabbage tree. 



28. SENECIO. Kagwort. 



This genus contains about 900 species, of which H. has 60 as 

 found in India. All the species here given belong to a section with 

 rayed flowers, ligules broad and long, bracts in one series, and pappus 

 rigid, scabrous, often reddish. 



1. S. (Doronicum reticulatum, D.). Erect, slightly 



rough, leaves somewhat quadrangular toothed, flowers small 

 yellow, about 2 together on long stalks, outer florets 10 to 12, 

 bracts linear, receptacle convex. Sonlci. 



The Konkan. 



This description is of a species that, according to D., has no pap- 

 pus, and I have found it so at Dapoli : but the point mentioned 

 makes it difficult to identify with any of #.'s, as it does not agree 

 otherwise with S. Belgaumensis. 



The following, except S. Newrensis and Belgaumensis, are not in D. 

 or G. Most of them are known only to Dalzell and Law, and the 

 hab., when not otherwise given, is Konkan and Bababudin hills. 



* S. ludens, ' a most sportive plant/ herbaceous, leaves more often 

 lyrate pinna tifid, the bases or petioles broad auricled. " Konkan 

 specimens very stout, stem a foot high, as thick below as the little 

 finger "(H.). * /S. tenuifolius. Slender, smooth, leaves sessile pinna- 

 tifid, flowers few, long-peduncled. W. Ghauts. *S. Newrensis (Doro- 

 nicum h. D.). A small leafy plant, leaves oblong, auricled, toothed 

 or subpinnatifid, flowers on long slender peduncles, ligules three, 

 very small, disk florets about 12. Rocky places near Junar (D.). 

 *S. Edgworthii, a very cottony herb, leaves cordate, rhomboid or 



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