304 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Siegesleckia- 



subacute. Achenes obovoid-oblong, not compressed, often incurved, obtuse; 

 pappus 0. DISTRIB. Species 2, a cosmopolitan tropical and subtropical and a 

 Peruvian one. 



S. orient alls, Linn.-, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 250; erect, pubescent with 

 crisped hairs, leaves triangular-ovate toothed or crenate, base incised truncate 

 or cuneate, outer invol. bracts equalling or exceeding the inner, outer achenes 

 rough. DC. Prodr. v. 495 ; Wight Ic. t. 1103 ; Wall. Cat. 3182 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. FL 127. S. glutinosa, Wall. Cat. 3182. S. brachiata and orientals ? 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 432. Minyranthes heterophylla, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. Misc. 1851, i. 181. 



Throughout INDIA, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Himalaya and other mountains. 

 DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan in warm climates. 



An annual, 1-3 ft., with spreading opposite lower branches. Leaves 1-4 in. long 

 and broad, long-petioled. 



53. EN HYDRA, Lour. 



Glabrous or scaberulous marsh-herbs. Leaves opposite, sessile. Heads 

 axillary, subsessile, unilateral or in alternate axils, heterogamous, subradiate ; 

 ray fl. $ , oo -seriate, fertile, ligule minute broad 3-4-toothed ; disk fl. > fertile, 

 or the inner sterile, tubular, limb campanulate 5-fid. Invol. bracts 4, foliaceous, 

 in opposite pairs, 2 outer larger ; receptacle convex or conic, pales enclosing the 

 flowers tipped with glandular hairs. Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms 

 of 5 obtuse, tips hispid. Achenes oblong, enclosed in the rigid pales, outer 

 dorsally, inner sometimes laterally compressed; pappus 0. DISTRIB. Species 

 about 6, tropical and subtropical. 



E. fluctuans, Lour. Fl. Cock. 511 ; pubescent or glabrous, glandular, 

 leaves sessile linear-oblong acute or obtuse entire or subcrenate, heads axillary 

 and terminal sessile. DC. Prodr. v. 637. E. Heloncha, DC. I. c. Hingtsha 

 repens, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 62 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 448. Megera Helongcha, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3195. Tetractis paludosa, Blume Bijd. 892. 



EASTERN BENGAL, ASSAM, and SILHET. DISTRIB. Sumatra, Malay, China. 



Usually quite glabrous ; stems 1-2 ft., elongate, simple or divaricatingly branched,, 

 rooting at the nodes. Leaves 1-3 in., variable in breadth, base narrowed or truncate. 

 Heads -f in. diam. 



54. EC ZiZ FT A, Linn. 



Strigose or hirsute annuals. Leaves opposite. Heads small, axillary or 

 terminal, peduncled, heterogamous^ rayed ; ray-fl. <j> , sub-2-seriate, fertile or 

 sterile ; ligule small, entire or 2-toothed, white rarely yellow ; disk-fl. , fertile, 

 tubular, limb 4-5-fid. Involucre broadly campanulate ; bracts sub- 2-seriate, 

 herbaceous, outer large and broad ; receptacle flat, or nearly so, pales enclosing 

 several flowers, inner narrow or 0. Anther-bases obtuse, subentire. Style-arms 

 flattened, with short or triangular obtuse appendages. Achenes of ray narrow, 

 triquetrous, often empty ; of the disk stouter, laterally subcompressed ; top 

 entire, toothed or 2-aristate. DISTRIB. Species 3 or 4, an Australian, a S. 

 American and a cosmopolitan tropical weed. 



1. ZS. alba, Hassk.; Clarke Comp. Ind. 134; hirsute or strigillose, leaves 

 sessile linear or oblong-lanceolate subentire narrowed at both ends, peduncles 

 1-2 axillary short or long and slender, invol.-bracts ovate obtuse or acute about 

 equalling or exceeding the flowers. E. erecta, Lamk. 111. t. 687. E. erecta and 

 alba, Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 117. E. alba and margiuata, Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 iii. 249. E. erecta and prostrata, Linn. Mant. 266. Verbesina alba and pro- 



