246 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Tticliroceplmla. 



3. D. Hamilton!, Hook. f. ; robust, sparsely pubescent, leaves sessile 

 ^-amplexicaul obovate coarsely toothed, heads globose panicled shortly pe- 

 duncled, corolla cf <j> fl. short, inflated mouth minute entire, very few 

 funnel-shaped 4-fid, achenes" cuneiform flattened, margins thickened. Cotula 

 sinapifolia, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 62; Wall. Cat. 3237 D?. O. dichrocephala, 

 Clarke Comp. 2nd. 150. 



ASSAM ; at Meteabo, Hamilton ; Brahmaputra plains, Herb. 'Calcutta. 



Annual, stem '6-10 in., much stouter than in any of the Other species. Leaves 

 1-2 in., sparsely pubescent on both surfaces. Heads in. diam. ; invol. bracts very 

 short, obtuse, hidden under the ripe achenes ; receptacle convex. 



** Receptacle slightly convex. 



4. D. Benthamii, Clarke Comp. Ind.. 36; subject with ascending 

 branches pubescent, leaves obovate sinuately lobed or spathulate, heads in. 

 diam. hemispheric. 



KHASIA MTS. ; alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H. $ T. T., Clar&e. 



Habit of D. latifolia, but with -so different a head and receptacle as almost to suggest 

 generic separation. Corolla of $ fl. elongate, i ovoid or suburcedlate, minutely-toothed. 

 Clarke has erroneously described f the ? as 3-fid. -to the base, and stated that Beu- 

 tham had confounded this with D. chrysanthemifolia. 



13. CYATKOCLINE, Cass. 



Erect, annual, odorous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect. Heads small, 

 panicled, heterogamous, not rayed ; outer fl. oo -seriate ; $ fertile, filiform, 2- 

 toothed-; <disk-fl. ? usually sterile, regular, 5-cleft. Involucre hemispheric ; 

 bracts sub- 2-seriate, lanceolate, acute, margins scarious ; receptacle with a 

 contracted base, elevated, top coneave, naked. Anther-bases truncate. Style 

 exserted.'of 8 simple or cleft. Achenes minute, oblong:, smooth : pappus 0. 



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DISTRIB. Species all Indian. 



1. C. lyrata, 'Cass. ; DC. Prodr. v. 374; sparsely hairy, branched, lower 

 leaves obovate, upper or all pinnatifid, heads in small rounded panicled corymbs 

 rose-purple. Wight Ic. t. 1098 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 37, 0, stricta, DC. /. c. 

 374. C. Lawii, Wight in Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1846 pt. ii. 159, not of Dah. 

 Tanacetum viscosum, Wall. Cat. 3232. T. purpureum, Don Prodr. 181. Ar- 

 temisia hirsuta, Rottl. ; Spreng Syst.ui. 490, Jid. DC. 



WESTERN HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir, alt. 1-4000 ft., and Knmaon, alt. 4-5000 ft., 

 to Nipal, Wallich, and Bhotan, Griffith. OUDE, BBHAR, CHOTA NAGPORE, BENGAI., 

 ASSAM, MuNifYPORE, GHITTAGONG, RANGOON, BIRMA, and the WESTERN PENINSULA. 



Stem 12 ft., soft. Leaves 1-5 in., segments toothed. Heads in. diam., yellow. 

 C. Lawii is merely a very slender form. 



2. C. lute a, Law mss. ; Wight in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1846, pt. ii. 158, 

 t. 2, f. 1-; Ic. t. 1150 ; pubescent, stems many from the root slender 3-8 in., 

 radical leaves linear bipinnatifid revolute cauline alternate, segments minute, 

 heads few in subscorpioid cymes yellow. -Clarke Comp. Ind. 37 (C.Jlava by 

 error). 0. Lawii, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 154, not of Wight. 



The CONCAN ; on the Ghats, alt. 2-4000 ft., Law, &c. 



A curious and very beautiful little plant, with stellately spreading radical leaves, 

 1-2 by in,, and very numerous slender flexuous scape-like stems branched above, 

 the branches bearing a few, small, yellow heads. 



14. GRANGEA, Forsk. 



Suberect or prostrate villous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid. Heads 

 terminal or leaf-opposed, subglobose, not rayed, yellow ; outer fl. l-oo -seriate, 



