Vicoa.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) , 297 



46. VZCOA, Cass. 



Annual or perennial, glabrous or hairy herbs. Leaves alternate, entire or 

 toothed, upper amplexicaul. Heads terminal, solitary or on leaf-opposed 

 peduncles, woolly, radiate and heterogamous or disciform and homogamous ; 

 ray fl. <j> , 1-2-seriate, fertile, ligule narrow, 2-3-toothed ; disk-fl. $ , fertile, 

 slender, limb hardly dilated 5-toothed. Involucre campanulate ; bracts oo- 

 seriate, narrow, inner scarious, outer shorter margins scarious ; receptacle flat or 

 subconvex, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, tails slender. Style-arms of 

 flattened, broader upwards, obtuse or truncate. Achenes small, hardly ribbed, 

 tip rounded. Pappus-hairs 5-<x> , 1-seriate, smooth scabrid or bearded. BISTBIB. 

 Species 6 ; Tropical and Western Asia and Africa. 



This genus had best be united to Inula, 



1. V . auriculata, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. v. 474 ; annual, slender, pubescent 

 and viscid or glabrate, leaves sessile lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate from a 

 broad auricled base acuminate entire or serrulate often scabrid above, invol. 

 bracts scarcely recurved, V. indica, DC. in Wight Contrib. 10; Prodr. I. c. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1148 ; Clarke Comp. 2nd. 127 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 126. V. 

 aurita, DC. I. c. 474. V. appendiculata, DC. 1. c. ; Clarke 1. c. Inula indica, 

 Linn. ; Sunn. Fl. Zeyl. 124, t. 55, f. 2 ; Wall. Cat. 2964. I. auriculata and 

 appendiculata, Wall. Cat. 2965, 2966. Doronicum calcaratum, Roxb. Hart. 

 Seng. 61 ; Fl. 2nd. iii. 434. 



Throughout the drier parts of INDIA, from the Punjab to Birma and southwards, 

 ascending the "Western Himalaya to 4000 ft. and to 5000 in CEYLON (not found in the 

 Eastern Peninsula). 



A usually much branched slender rigid leafy herb, 1-3 ft., with spreading branches. 

 Leaves in largest specimens 7 by 1^ in., more commonly 1-2 in. ; base always rounded ; 

 auricles rounded or hastate, sometimes gashgjl. Heads -f in., on long slender spread- 

 ing peduncles ; iavol. bracts very slender; ligules revolute, as long as the involucre. 

 Achenes ^ in., pale, terete, sparsely hairy; pappus hairs few, slender, free at the 



2. V. cernua, Dalz. in Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb.Fl. 126; annual, slender, sparsely 

 pubescent, lower leaves shortly petioled elliptic acuminate serrate, upper sessile 

 contracted to a small auricled base, invol. bracts squarrose tips filiform re- 

 curved. 



Hills of the CONCAN and WESTERN DECCAN ; Belgaum, &c , Law, Stocks, &c. 



Very similar in habit to V. auriculata, but differing in the leaves and invol. bracts. 

 The achenes and pappus are very much alike, and I do not find the difference in the 

 pappus of the ray flowers which Dalzell describes. 



3. V. vestita, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 335 ; woolly and softly hairy, leaves 

 oblong or linear-oblong obtuse or subacute from a broad auricled base serrate, 

 invol. bracts squarrose tips filiform recurved, achenes subsilky. Inula vestita, 

 Wall. Cat. 2962 ; DC. Prodr. v. 470 ; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 199 ; Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 119. Pentanerna radiatum, Boiss. Diagn. ser. 2. iii. 14. 



Drier parts of India from MARRI, Fleming, and the PUNJAB, to SCIND, PATNA, 

 BEHAR, and the CONCAN ; SIKKIM, Treutler ; WESTERN TIBET, at Iskardo, Thomson. 

 DISTRIB. Afghanistan. 



A shorter stouter plant than the two preceding species, with more numerous nar- 

 rower ligules, but similar achenes and pappus. 



47. PULICARIA, Gaertn. 



Annual or perennial, usually woolly or villous herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 sessile, often amplexicaul. Heads solitary, radiate and heterogamous, or disci- 



