Grangea.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 247 



$ , fertile, filiform, outermost 2-fid., inner 2-4-fid. ; disk-fl. , fertile, tube very 

 slender ; lirub campanulate, 4-5-cleft. Involucre broadly campanulate ; bracts 

 few-seriate, outer herbaceous ; receptacle convex or conic, naked. Anther-bases 

 obtuse. Style-arms of $ flattened, cuneate, obtuse or with triangular points. 

 Achenes flattened or subterete ; pappus cupular. DISTRIB. Species 3 or 4 tro- 

 pical Asia and Africa. 



1. G-. maderaspatana, Poir; DC. Prodr. v. 373 ; pubescent or villous, 

 stems spreading from the root prostrate, leaves sinuately pinnatifid, heads 

 solitary rarely 2-nate leaf-opposed shortly peduncled, pappus hairs connate into 

 a cylindric fimbriate tube. Wight le. t. 1097; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl 124; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 37. Artemisia maderaspatana, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 61. ; Fl. 

 2nd. iii. 412. Ootula maderaspatana, Willd. C. sphseranthus, Link JEnum. ii. 

 344. Grangea sphaeranthus, Koch in Sot. Zeit., i. 41. 



Throughout INDIA, from the Punjab eastwards and southwards. DISTEIB. Tropical 

 and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



A common weed, growing flat on the ground, forming patches 6-12 in. broad, and 

 more. 



15. ZKYRXACTXS, Less. 



Erect annuals. Leaves alternate, toothed. Heads loosely panicled or solitary, 

 homogamous, white with a yellow disk, rayed ; ray-fl. 2-oo -seriate, , fertile, 

 small, ligulate, ligules spreading or revolute; disk-fl. ^, fertile, tubular, 6-fid. 

 Involucre hemispheric ; bracts few-seriate, narrow, margins scarious ; receptacle 

 broad, convex, naked. Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of narrow, flattened, 

 tips lanceolate. Achenes compressed, margined ; pappus 0. DISTRIB. Species 

 1, or more, Asiatic and African. 



1. M. Wig-htii, DC. in Wight Contrib. 10 ; Prodr. v. 308 ; pubescent or 

 villous, leaves ovate or lyrate distantly serrate, upper lanceolate sessile, heads 

 long-ped uncled, invol. bracts acute villous, achenes shortly beaked. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1091 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 38. M. javanica, DC. I. c. ; "Clarke I. c. 



NILGHEBBY MTS. ; alt. 8000 ft. CEYLON ; central province, alt. 5-8000 ft. 



A weed 2-3 ft. high ; stem rigid, branches divaricating. Leaves 1-4 in., petiole 

 winged, upper auricled. Heads i in. diam., on long strict peduncles. 



VAR. bellidioides; hirsute, 46 in. high, leaves radical rosulate obovate-spathulate 

 quite entire obtuse, heads solitary on a scape-like stem. Nilgherry Mts., Wight. 



2. M. nepalensis, Less. ; DC. Prodr. v. 308 ; glabrous villous or hispid, 

 leaves ovate or lanceolate coarsely serrate, heads subpaniculate, invol. bracts 

 acute at length reflexed, achenes mucronate at the top not beaked. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 38. M. Gmelini, DC. 1. c. 309. M. oleosa and M. gracilis, Edgew. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 65 and 66. M. carnosa, Wall. Cat. 3219. Botryadenia 

 Gmelini, Fisch. $ Mey. Ind. Sem. ii. 30 ; Regel Serf. Petrop. t. 23. Lavenia 

 dentata, Watt. Cat. 3216 A. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft. KHASIAMTS., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft. DISTEIB. Central Asia. 



A most variable weedy plant, of which I am quite unable to make satisfactory 

 varieties ; indeed, as Bentham suggests, it may be only a form of Wightii. 



3. 1. Wallichii, Less. ; DC. I. c. 309 ; very slender, sparsely hairy, leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate unequally serrate, heads very small on slender pedicels. 

 Lavenia dentata, Wall. Cat. 3216 B. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA; Simla, Thomson. NIPAL, Wallich. SIKKIM, alt. 9-12.000 

 ft. J. D. H. 



I can scarcely think this more than a slender small-headed form of M. nepalensis, 

 but if more than one species is to be kept, this must be one of them. 



