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tomentose beneath; capi tula corymbose ; scales of the involucre 

 linear mucronate; ligulse about 8 (4-nerved); style and stigma none ; 

 achenia 10-nerved; nerves, hispid ; pappus none. At Belgaum. 



31. ECHINOPS, Linn. 



1. E ECHINATUS, Roxb. Erect, much-branched; leaves pin-* 

 natind, pubescent and viscid above, hoary and tomentose beneath ; 

 divisions ovate-lanceolate, waved plain ; heads of flowers terminal, 

 solitary, globose spinous ; florets pale-lilac ; tube slender ; divisions 

 linear-acute, re volute ; pappus short, brush-like ; ovary very hairy. 

 Guzerat and the Deccan ; common. Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 447. 



32. AMBERBOA, Isn. 



1. INDICA, DC. Prod. 6, p 558. Stem erect-branched, 

 furrowed and angular, naked at the top ; leaves glabrous or rough, 

 lanceolate, coarsely toothed, uppermost few, linear, entire. Guzerat. 

 Syn. Serratula indica, Klein in Willd. sp. iii, p 1642; Athanasia 

 indica, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 



33. TRICHOLEPIS. 



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1. PROCUMBENS, Wight Ic. t. 1139. Stem flexuose, short, 

 ramous ; branches diffuse, procumbent, angularly striated, subglab- 

 rous; leaves shortly pubescent or subglabrous, those of the stem lyrate, 

 of the branches sinuately pinnatifid, the lobes spinously mucronate ; 

 involucrum ovate ; scales ovate at the base, araneose, terminating in 

 a prickle-like appendage ; flowers purple. Flowers in the cold 

 weather ; common in light soils in Guzerat. Syn. Carduus ramosus, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 407. 



2. T RADICANS, DC. Prod. 4, p 564. Stem branched ; branches 

 spreading; leaves obovate or oblong-linear, sharply serrated ; the 

 teeth bristle-pointed, smooth, dotted; heads of flowers small, 

 terminal, purple. Common in ravines in the Deccan. Syn. Car- 

 duus radicans, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 408. 



3. T GLABERRIMA, DC. loc. cit. Tall, erect, smooth, with the 

 stem angled ; leaves linear lanceolate acuminate, stem-clasping, 

 distantly spotted with black specks ; florets 7 lines long ; heads of 

 flowers as in the preceding, only a little larger. The Concan and 

 Deccan ; common. 



4. T MONTANA. A coarser species; leaves obovate-oblong, 

 very coarsely toothed, or sometimes pinnatifid, differs from the last 

 also in having long, slender stigmas. The Ghauts. 



