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scales of the involucre linear or linear-spathulate, obtuse, herbaceous. 

 Margins of rivulets near Rohee Bunder. Syn. Ageratum aquaticum, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 416. 



2. EUPATORIUM, Tournef. 



1. DIVERGENS, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 414. Shrubby, 6 to 8 feet 

 high, branches diverging ; leaves short-petioled, elliptic-recurved, 

 serrate-dentate, rugose, when young downy, when old scabrous, 

 1 to 6 inches long; corymbs terminal compound ; flowers purple, 

 very numerous, heads with 5 to 8 flowers. Common on the 

 Ghauts; flowers in February. This has been strangely confounded 

 by DeCandolle with Decancurum divergens, but it is a true 

 Eupatorium. Native name " Boondar." Mahableshwur, common. 



SUB-ORDER. III. ASTEROIDE^E. 

 1. CALLISTEPHUS, Cass. 



1. CONCOLOR, Dalz. in Hook. Jour. Bot. ii, 344. A small 

 glaucous plant, root woody, perennial, branches ascending, radical ; 

 leaves oblong-obovate, toothed towards the apex ; stem leaves linear- 

 oblong, toothed or entire, glandular-dotted, glabrous ; outer scales of 

 involucre linear-obtuse, inner erect foliaceous, glandular- dotted; 

 peduncles terminal, solitary, 1 -headed ; flowers yellow. In rocky 

 ground near Malwan ; flowers in September and October. 



2. C WIGHTJANUS, DC. Prod. 5, p 275. A rigidly erect 

 annual ; leaves sessile, oblong linear-entire or serrated, shortly 

 mucronate; branches leafy, compressed at the apex, minutely 

 puberulous ; exterior scales of the involucre foliaceous, linear- 

 oblong ; flowers large, yellow. Wight Ic. 1089. Common in the 

 Deccari. 



2. LEUCOBLEPHARIS, Arnott. 



1. L SUBSESSILIS, Arn. in Mag. Zool. and Bot. ii, p 422. 

 Herbaceous, glabrous simple ; root thick, woody ; leaves alternate 

 subsessile, elliptic-obtuse, or attenuated at both ends, entire 

 3-nerved ; cluster of flowers globose, terminal subsessile ; bracts 

 foliaceous, longer than the flowers ; seeds black, shining, plano- 

 convex. The Ghauts. Blepharispermum subsessile. Wight Ic. 1093. 



3. SPH^ERANTHUS, Vaill. 



1. S MOLLIS, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 446. Annual, winged; leaves 

 sessile, decurrent, long obovate, bristle serrate, downy and glutinous ; 



