306 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Wedelia. 



57. WEJSEIiIA, Jacq. 



Scabrid pubescent or hirsute herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. 

 Heads axillary or terminal, heterogaraous, radiate, yellow ; ray-fl. ? , fertile, 

 ligule spreading entire or 2-toothed ; disk-fl. , fertile or the central sterile, 

 tubular, limb elongate 5-toothed. Invol. bracts sub-2-seriate, outer 3-5 

 usually herbaceous or foliaceous, inner dry ; receptacle flat or convex, pales 

 enclosing the flowers. Anther-bases entire or subsagittate. Style-arms of 

 with acute hniry tips. Achenes cuneate-oblong or obovoid, thick, smooth or 

 tubercled, laterally compressed or the outer triquetrous, tip rounded, margins 

 obtuse or thickened ; pappus 0, or a toothed cup or ring, or of short scales, 

 with sometimes a few bristles. DISTRIB. Species about 45, tropical and sub- 

 tropical. 



1. W. calendulacea, Less. -,DC.in Wight Contrib. 17 ; Prodr. v. 539; 

 procumbent, strigillose or glabrate, leaves subeessile linear-oblong or oblanceolate 

 acute or obtuse entire or sub-crenate scaberulous above 1- rarely 3-nerved, heids 

 solitary on long slender axillary peduncles, outer in vol. bracts large oblong 

 obtuse herbaceous much longer than the disk-fl., achenes of the r&y 3-quetrous 

 tip truncate. Wight Ic. t. 1107; Am. in Hook. Comp. Sot. Mag. i. 81, t. 5; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind.'l36; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 129. W. bengafensis ?, Rich. 

 in Pers. Synops. ii. 490. Verbesina calendulacea, Linn. ; Roxb. FL 2nd. iii. 440 ; 

 Watt. Cat. 3205. Joegeria calendulacea, Spreng. Syst. iii. 590. Sunn. Fl. 

 Zeyl. 52, t. 22, f. 1. 



In wet places, BENGAL, ASSAM, SILHET, the EASTERN and WESTERN PENINSULAS 

 and CEYLON. DFSTRIB. Malay Islds., China, Japan. " 



Stem 6-18 in., rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous or scabrid. Leaves 1-3 in., 

 variable in breadth, hairs on both sufaces scattered, appressed, rigid, white. Heads 

 1-1 in. diara ; peduncles 1-6 in., swollen below the turbinate involucre. 



2. W. urticaefolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 18; Prodr. v. 539 var. (3 

 only ; erect, slender, hispid or scabrid, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate 

 3-nerved, heads 1-3 peduncled, invol. bracts ovate- lanceolate acuminate exceed- 

 ing the disk-fl., achenes elongate-cuneate 3-quetrous tip broad truncate. Wight 

 Ic. t. 1106. Woollastonia biflora, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 128, excl. syn. 

 Verbesina biflora, Wall. Cat. 3207 B., in part. 



WESTERN PENINSULA ; on the Ghats from the Concan southwards. 



Stem and branches weak, pale, grooved. Leaves 3-5 in., petiole short or long, 

 slender. Heads f-1 in. diam. ; invol. bracts scabrid. Pappus usually 0, rarely of 

 1-2 bristles. f 



3. W. biflora, DC. in Wight Contrib. 18 ; climbing, glabrous or 

 lous, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate, heads 1-3 peduncled, invol. bracts 

 oblong or ovate-lanceolate often recurved equalling or exceeding the disk, 

 achenes shortly cuneate 3-4-angled rough tip broad truncate. W. scandens, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 136, excl. syn. ? W. biflora, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 176. Woollastonia biflora and scabriuscula, DC. Prodr. v. 546, 547. W. 

 biflora, Wt. Ic. t. 1108. Verbesina biflora, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 3207 A., in part, 

 F. V. dichotoma, Wall. Cat. 3024 A., partly F. H. Eclipta scabriuscula, 

 Wall. Cat. 3212, chiefly. Acmella biflora, Spreng. Syst. iii. 591. Rheede Hort. 

 Mai. x. t. 40. 



Near the sea from BENGAL and BOMBAY to CEYLON and SINGAPORE. DISTRIB. 

 Tropical shores of Eastern Asia. 



Very like W. iirticafolia, but less hispid, climbing, and with much shorter broader 

 achenes. 



