Chrysanthellam.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 311 



lobed or cut. Heads % in. diam. in flower, ^ in. in fruit. Achenes ^ in. long, equal- 

 ling the in vol. bracts. This has been united with the American and Senegal species 

 by Bentham, Clarke and others ; but the achenes are smaller and never broadly 

 winged as in the American species. 



02*. GALINSOGA, Ruiz et Pav. 



Annual herbs. Leaves opposite, entire or toothed. Heads small, peduncled, 

 subtermiual and axillary, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-fl. few, $ , 1-seiiate, fertile, 

 ligule yellow spreading ; disk-fl. $ , fertile, tubular, limb 5-fid. Involucre 

 hemispheric ; bracts few, 1-2-eeriate, ovate, obtuse, striate ; receptacle conic or 

 elongate; pales slender, serrate. Anther-bases subentire. Style-arms of 

 acute or with an acute short tip. Achenes angled or the outer dorsally com- 

 pressed ; pappus of a few scarious, entire awned or fimbriate scales, of the ray 

 often 0. DISTRIB. Species 5, tropical American. 



Cr. parviflora, Cao. Ic. iii. 41, t. 281 ; DC. Prodr. v. 677 ; Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 112. 



A weed in cultivated and waste places in the HIMALAYA, alt. 4-8000 ft., introduced 

 from America. 



A weak, erect, hispid or glabrous herb, 6-12 in. high. Leaves petioled, 1-2 in., 

 membranous, ovate, obtusely acuminate, 3-nerred, subserrate. Heads - in. diam. ; 

 peduncles very .slender ; invol. bracts broad, green. 



62**. TRIBAX, Linn. 



Perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, pinnatisect ; segments few, narrow. 

 Heads very long-peduncled, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-fl. <j> , fertile, ligulate or 

 2-lipped, with the outer lip large 3-fid or 3-partite, the inner small 2-lobed or 

 -parted or 0; disk-fl. , fertile, tubular, limb elongate S-fid.^Jjm)/. 

 few-seriate, outer short, broad, herbaceous ; receptacle flat ora^Hfe ; :pales 

 membranous. Anther-bases with short, acute auricles. Style-an^jmQ hairy 

 above, tips subulate. Achenes turbinate or oblong, silky ; pappusor short or 

 long aristate, feathery bristles. DISTBIB. Species 7, tropical American, of 

 which one is introduced into India. 



T. procumbens, Linn.; DC. Prodr. v. 679; procumbent, hirsute, 

 leaves ovate or lanceolate deeply irregularlv serrate, peduncles 2-3 times as long 

 as the stem. Wall. Cat. 3197 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 142. 



Abundant in various parts of INDIA, introduced from S. America. 



A weak straggling herb, 1-2 ft. long, with few leaves 1-2 in. long, and very long 

 slender solitary peduncles a foot long and more. Heads in. diam. Achenes brown ; 

 pappus in. long, shining. V *. 



TRIBE VI. ANTHE1VSOIDE2E. 



63. A CHILLS A, Linn. 



Perennial pubescent or villous herbs. Leaves alternate, narrow, serrulate or 

 pinnatisect. Heads small, corymbose, heterogamous and rayed or homogamous 

 and disciform ; ray-fl. few, $ , rarely neuter, ligule short white pink or }-llow ; 

 disk-fl. , fertile, tube terete or compressed and 2-winged, base often produced 

 over the top of the achene, limb 6-n'd. Invol. bracts in few series, ap pressed, 

 margins ol'tea scarious and black, outer shorter; receptacle flat or elevated, 

 pales membranous. Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of with truncate and 

 penicillate tips. Achenes oblong or obovoid, dorsally compressed, glabrous, with 

 2 cartilaginous wings ; pappus 0. DISXBIB. About 50, of temp. N. regions. 



