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oblong-lanceolate, acuminated, attenuated into a short petiole, 

 serrated, pubescent beneath ; corymb compound, branched, many- 

 headed ; involucre scales linear-lanceolate acuminated, shorter than 

 the disc. The Ghauts. 



3. DECANEURUM, DC. 



1. MOLLE, DC. Prod. 5, p 67. Stem herbaceous, erect, rather 

 smooth, or roughish with minute bristles, tomentose at the apex ; 

 leaves ovate lanceolate acuminated, coarsely and irregularly ser- 

 rated, tomentose and hoary beneath ; peduncles axillary, one-headed ; 

 bracts foliaceous, close under the head of flowers ; like the leaves. 

 South Concan. Syn. D epileium, DC. in Wight Contr. p 7 ; 

 D scabridum, DC. loc. cit. 



2. MICROCEPHALUM, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, p 231. 

 Stem branched, scabrous, and pubescent; leaves petioled, elliptic- 

 acuminate, gradually attenuated into the petiole, pubescent above, 

 hoary and tomentose beneath ; heads of flowers shall, solitary at 

 the apex of the branches ; scales of the involucre squariose, hoary 

 and tomentose beneath, exterior ones lanceolate-acuminate, bristle- 

 pointed, ciliated ; seeds smooth, shining, without ribs. The Par war 

 Ghaut; flowers in November; when freshly gathered, smells like 

 Chamomile. 



4. ELEPHANTOPUS, Cass. 



1. SCABER, Linn. sp. 1313. Stem dichotomously branched, 

 strigose ; radical leaves rough crenated, wedge-shaped, gradually 

 attenuated towards the base ; stem leaves broadly cordate, ovate- 

 acuminate, hoary ; flowers purple. Common under the shade of 

 trees in the Concan and Ghauts. 



SUB-ORDER. II. EUPATORIACE^. 

 1. ADENOSTEMMA. 



1. LATIFOLIUM, Don. Prod. 181. Stem erect-branched, 

 pubescent towards the apex ; leaves petioled, broadly ovate- 

 rhomboid, or subcordate, coarsely serrated ; panicle corymbose 

 hirsute, many-headed ; scales of involucre rough on the back, seeds 

 nmricated and tubercled. Jungles in the Concan; common ; flowers 

 white. Syn. Lavenia latifolia, Spr. syst. iii, p 445 ; A strictum, 

 Bot. Mag. t. 2410 (?). 



2. RIVALE, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. iii, 231. Stem erect, 

 round, glabrous ; leaves linear lanceolate, long-attenuated at the 

 base, serrate-toothed, glabrous ; panicle corymbose, lax, few-headed ; 



