130 



naked. Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 419. Native name " Downa." The 

 flowers are sold in the bazars. 



27. GNAPHALIUM, D. Don. 



1. INDICUM, Linn. sp. 1200. Stems several, herbaceous, diffuse, 

 tomentose ; leaves obovate-oblong or oblong-linear, mucronate, 

 more or less tomentose, lowest attenuated at the base, upper sessile ; 

 heads of flowers aggregated into an interrupted simple or branched 

 spike ; involucre scales linear-obtuse, scariose, straw-coloured or 

 reddish. Syn. G multicaule, Willd. sp. iii, 1888; G Polycaulon, 

 Pers. Enchir. No. 105; G strictum, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 424; Pluk. 

 Aim. t. 187, /. 5. 



28. GYNURA, Cass. 



1. G SIMPLEX. Tall, erect, unbranched, glabrous ; stem at the 

 base as thick as the finger, angled ; leaves large, oblong-obovate, 

 sessile, coarsely sinuate-toothed, 5 inches long, 2 to 3 broad ; stem 

 distantly clothed with leaves to the apex; corymb terminal of 5 to 

 7, heads of deep orange-coloured flowers; heads 9 lines long; 

 bracteoles linear- acute, one-third the length of the heads. This 

 comes near to G angulosa of DC. Prod, from Nepal. On the 

 highest hills around Jooneer. 



29. DORONICUM, Linn. 



1. RETICULATUM, Wight Ic. t. 1151, B. Herbaceous, erect, 

 ramous ; stem and branches glabrous ; leaves somewhat rhomboidal, 

 coarsely and unequally dentate ; teeth mucronate, rough and aran- 

 cosely pubescent above, tomentose between the veins beneath ; 

 capitula laxly corymbose, longish-pedicelled ; liguke 10 to 12, 

 sterile ; throat hairy within ; pappus none ; disc flowers numerous ; 

 achenium ribbed, conical, hairy. Island of Caranjah. 



2. D HEWRENSE, Dalz. Stem erect, striated, pilose ; leaves 

 oblong or lanceolate, attenuated at the base, and auricled, coarsely 

 toothed, pubescent above, ciliated on the margin, and hispid on 

 the prominent nerves beneath ; peduncles axillary or terminal, long, 

 slender, with 1 to 3 heads of flowers, which are small and yellow ; 

 ligulate flowers 3 only in each head ; the ligulse very small, oval ; 

 disc florets about 12. Common in rocky places around Jooneer; 

 flowers in July and August. 



30. MADACARPUS, R. Wight. 



1. BELGAUMENSIS, Wight Ic. t. 1152. Annual, erect, hirsute; 

 leaves ovate, crenate-dentate, auricled at the base, pubescent above, 



