228 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Centratherum. 



larger stouter peduncles, broader shorter and more regular invol. bracts, and especi- 

 ally by the coarse hairs of the peduncles and involucre. The achenes are the same 

 in both. 



ft Pappus reddish. 



4. C. Ritchie!, Hook. f. ; branches glabrate, leaves petioled elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate toothed white-tomentose beneath, outer invol. bracts leafy base 

 cordate, pappus equalling the corolla-tube. Gynmanthemum molle, Schultz- 

 Bip. in PI. Hohenack. n. 93, a. 



The CONCAN and CANARA, Stocks, Ritchie, &c. 



A more slender annual than C. molle, and at once distinguished by its glabrate 

 often shining branches, the 2-6 or more large leafy oblong cordate outer invol. 

 bracts, and the longer pappus. Heads 3- to nearly in. diam. Achenes very small, 

 about y x g in. 



5. C. phyllolsenum, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 225 ; branches glabrate pubes- 

 cent or substrigose, leaves elliptic toothed or serrate white-tomentose beneath, 

 outer involucral leafy bracts several base contracted, pappus equalling the corolla- 

 tube. Decaneuron phyllolaenum, DC. Prodr. vii. 264. Gymnanthemum phyllo- 

 Isenum, Schultz-Bip. in PL Hohenack. n. 274. D. molle, Da/3. Sf Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 122. 



The CONCAN, Eoux, Law, Jacquemont, &c. MARWAR, on Mt. Aboo, King. 



Very variable, annual, stotit or slender ; branches usually spreading. Leaves 2-5 

 in., usually elliptic, petioled, sometimes hardly white beneath. Heads -1 in. diam. ; 

 peduncles usually slender; outer invol. bracts 1 co , spreading or deflexed, linear or 

 lanceolate, rarely oblong, sometimes much longer than the heads, white beneath ; 

 middle bracts extremely variable, obtuse, acute or rounded, green or scarious at the 

 tip, erect or recurved, margins ciliate or not. Achenes in. ; pappus reddish or 

 almost white. 



6. C. tenue, Clarke Comp. Ind. 5 ; branches slender glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 sparingly toothed, heads small, peduncles very slender, invol. bracts glabrous 

 outer 1 or 2 elongate linear or oblong, pappus much shorter than the corolla- 

 tube. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; the Concan, Gibson, Law, &c. 



Closely allied to C. phyllolcenum, but much more slender, with always small heads 

 \-\ in. diam., and only 1 or 2 leafy invol. bracts, much shorter pappus, and more 

 turgid achenes only ^ in. long. 



** Leaves not white beneath. Outer invol. bracts shortest. 



7. C. Hookeri, Clarke Comp. Ind. 3; pubescent, branches angled and 

 grooved, leaves linear-lanceolate obscurely toothed, pappus long. Decaneuron 

 angustifolium, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. fy'T. 



The CONCAN, Law, Stocks. 



Annual, erec^ 18-24 in., stiff, branched above. Leaves scattered, 2-3 by - in., 

 and, as well as the branches, brownish when dry and puberulous on both surfaces. 

 Heads ^-f in. diam. ; peduncles slender, hoary-pubescent ; bracts numerous, small, 

 none leafy Corolla \ in. long, red. Pappus single, equalling the corolla. Achenes-^ 

 in., linear-oblong. 



IMPERFECTLY KNOWN SPECIES. 



C. METZIANTJM (Diospermum Metzianum, Schultz. Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. from 

 Canara) resembles C. molle, but has the hairy invol. bracts of C. courtallense and no 

 pappus. The specimen is a very indifferent one. 



3, LATOPRACHJENXiraX, Bt.h. 



An erect branched annual smelling of chamomile, with crisped hairs. Leaves 

 alternate, petioled, toothed. Heads small, subcorymbosely panicled, homoga- 

 mous. Involucre subcampanulate ; bracts oo -seriate, dry, inner acute. Receptacle 



