310 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Uidens. 



chinensis, Wall. Cat. 3189, D. E. F. B. Wallichii, DC. Prodr. v. 598; Dalz. cj- Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 129. 



VAR. 3. decomposita ; leaves decompoundly piunatifid, segments linear slender. 

 B. decomposita, Wall, in DC. Prodr. \. 602; Cat. 3188; Clarke Ccmp. 2nd. 141, 

 cxcl. var. ft. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



B. DECOMPOSITA, var. ft Ursutior, Clarke (Comp. Ind. 141), from 7500 ft in the 



Nilgherry Mts. I have seen no specimen of this, which Clarke informs me he now 

 supposes to be some cultivated plant. 



B. CALVA, Clarke 1. c. (Adenolepis calva, Schultz-Bip. ill Herb. Hvhenack. n. 344) is 

 Cosmos sulphureus, Cu-v., a cultivated plant. 



61. GZ.OSSOGVNE, 



Perennial glabrous herbs, with almost naked stems and branches. Leaves 

 radical, crowded, piunatitid or cuneate and 3-toothed, cauliue alternate or the 

 lower opposite, or 0. Heads small, few, corymbose, heterogamous and rayed, or 

 homogatnous and disciform ; ray-fl. <j> , fertile, ligules spreading yellow (or 

 white ?) ; disk-fl. , fertile, tubular, limb 5-fid. Involucre small ; bracts 2-3- 

 seriate, narrow, bases connate ; receptacle flat ; pales scarious, flat or concave. 

 Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of $ with long 1 hairy tips. .Achenes dorsally 

 compressed, linear, ovoid -or almost winged, glabrous, truncate; pappus of 2 

 retrosely scabrid bristles. DISTRIB. Species 5, tropical Asiatic and Australian. 



1. Cr. pinnatifida, DC. in Wight Centrib. 19; Prodr. v. 632 ; branches 

 slender forked, leaves mostly radical pinnatifid -triangular in outline, segments 

 linear acute. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 129; Clarke Comp. Ind. 141. B. 

 rigida, Hort. Cole. Zinnia Bidens, Retz Obs. v. 28 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 435. 

 Bidens pinuatifida, Heynt in Watt. Cat. 3190. 



Plains of "WESTERN INDIA ; from Jamu and Garwhal to Western Bengal and 

 Behar, and -south wards to Madras. 



Root fusiform, woody. Leaves with the petiole 1-2 in. ; segments few, often 

 recurved, acute, coriaceous. Flowering branches 6-12 in., strict, stiff, grooved, nearly 

 leafless. Heads in flower in. diam. ; invol. bracts linear, obtuse, % in. long. Avhenes 

 \-^ in., deeply grooved, black. 



62. CHRYSANTHEX.X.UXK, Rich. 



Annual glabrous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatitid, or radical toothed. 

 Heads small, peduucled, terminal and axillary, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-fl. $ , 

 1-seriate, fertile, ligule spreading entire or 2-tcothed yellow; disk-fl. , fertile, 

 tube short, limb campanulute 5-iid. Involucre hemispheric ; bracts 1-2-seriate ; 

 receptacle flat ; pales narrow, flat, scarious. Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style- 

 arms of slender, tips long subulate. Achenes linear-oblong, dorsally com- 

 pressed, smooth, or the outer tubercled externally, outer thick with obtuse 

 margins, inner Ut 2- winged ; pappus a minute corona. DISTBIB. Species 2 or 

 3, tropical Asia, Africa and America. 



1. C. indicum, DC. Prodr. v. 631 ; achenes all cuneate-obloug obcom- 

 pressed grooved smooth margins very tl^ic'k not winged. Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 

 39; Clarke Comp. Ind. 142, excl. syn. Bidens ? Bandanna, Wall. Cat. 3291. 

 Hinterpjabera Kotechyi, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Schimper, n. 1630. 



UPPE-B G-ANGETIC plains, Boyle, Thomson. KUMAON and OAEWHAL, at Hawalbagh 

 and Nynee-tal, alt. 4000 ft., Madden, &c. NAGPOKE, Munro. DISTRIB. Madagascar, 

 Tropical Africa. 



Branches spreading from the root, procumbent, diffuse, leafy. Leaves succulent, 

 1-3 in. long, deltoid in outline, 2-pinriatifid; segments oblong or cuneiform, obtusely 



