314 



petioles ; heads of flowers terminal, peduncled, purple ; seeds 

 cylindric. Common in the black-soil of the Deccan. The seeds 

 are much used in native medicine, and are really effectual in 

 bowel-complaints. 



3. DECANEURUM, DC., p 122 



3. D LILACINUM, Dalz. Stem 4 to 5 feet high, herbaceous, 

 dichotomously branched ; leaves lanre, 6 to 7 inches long, 3 inches 

 broad, lower ones ovate, attenuated at both ends, upper lanceolate, 

 all thinly clothed above with flat-jointed hairs, white and araneose 

 beneath, repand-dentate on the margins, and with the teeth 

 cuspidate; heads of flowers solitary terminal, of a beautiful lilac 

 colour ; involucre ovate, subtended by a few lanceolate cuspidate 

 leaflets; outer scales small oval cuspidate, stalked ; inner long linear 

 acute, scarious-pointed, all fringed with a little white wool ; pappus 

 half the length of the corolla, caducous; achenia smooth, with 10 

 slight grooves. Mahableshwur Hills, also in the Concan ; flower- 

 ing in November. 



11. VICOA CERNUA, p 126. 

 (Amended description.) 



Leaves pendulous, oblong acuminate, narrowed at the base, 

 slightly stem-clasping, serrate, sparingly pilose above, and on the 

 nerves beneath wrinkled, somewhat membranous, 3 to 3J inches 

 long, I broad ; -uppermost leaves lanceolate-acuminate from a 

 cordate stem-clasping base ; heads of flowers solitary from the upper 

 axils, and terminal peduncle or flower-bearing branch long, slender, 

 pilose, with 1 to 3 small leaves, and 1 to 3 subulate bracts under the 

 capitulimi ; flower-buds spherical ; involucre leaves very numerous, 

 squarrose, fine subulate, with extremely fine points; ray-florets 

 numerous, 2 rows, linear; pappus of 4 to 5 slender bristles, almost 

 as long as the flowers ; anthers cordate ; achenia cylindrical, with 

 close-pressed bristles, which appear above like a false pappus. 



26. ARTEMISIA, Linn., p 129. 



2. A PARVIFLORA, Buch. Root perennial; stem ascending 

 obliquely ; branches several, spreading or drooping ; lower leaves 

 simple, sessile, cuneate, with the apex dentate, and some linear 

 segments at the base, deep-green on both sides, uppermost leaves 

 minute, entire; flowers numerous-pedicelled, very minute, ovate, 

 drooping, reen. Very common on the eastern side of the Maha- 

 bleshwur Hills, and on the road towards Sattara. Dr. Buchanan's 



