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toothed ; length 1 to 4 in. ; petioles -25 to 1-25 in. Heads about -15 in. 

 in diam., globose, on pedicels many times longer than themselves, 

 in lax, few-branched, cymose panicles. Bay-florets ? , filiform, 

 obscurely 2-3-toothed, white. Dish-florets ^ , 4-cleft, yellow. Cypselas 

 very small, smooth, with a callous margin, and often with 2 small 

 bristles. DC. in Wight Contrib. 11, Prod. V. 372; Wight Ic. 

 1096; Clarke Comp. Ind. 36; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 245. D. 

 gracilis and D. sonchifolia, DC. I.e. 371, 372. Cotula sinapifolia, 

 Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 63, Fl. Ind. III. 437 ; Wall. Cat. 3237. C. bicolor, 

 Eoth Cat. Bot. II. 116. C. latifolia, Pers. Syn. II. 464. Grangea 

 latifolia, Lam. 111. t. 699. Hippia bicolor, Smith in Kees Cyclop. 

 XVIII. Ethulia integrifolia, Don Prodr. 182. 



Pbrak : Scortechini. — Disteib. British India, tropical and sub- 

 tropical Asia and Africa. 



7. MiCEOGLOSSA, DC. 



Slender shrubs, often scandent. Leaves alternate, entire. Heads 

 small, heterogamous, collected in large corymbose panicles. Bay-florets 

 ? , in 1 or more series, fertile, the ligule minute, white. Disk-florets few 

 or many, ^ , fertile, tubular, with dilated 3- to 4-fid limb. Involucre 

 campanulate, composed of several series of narrow bracts, the outer 

 shorter. Beceptacle flat, naked or nearly so. Corolla, the ligulate or 

 ray ones narrow, about as long as the style ; those of the disk (the 

 tubular) longer. Anthers with obtuse bases, entire. Style-arms of the 

 ^ flattened ; their tips long, lanceolate. Cypselas angled ; pappus hairs 

 numerous, slender, silky, in one or two series, somewhat unequal. — 

 Disteib. About 6 species, Asiatic and African. 



MiCEOGLOSSA voLUBiLis, DC. Prod. V. 320. A sub-scandent shrub; 

 branches half as thick as a goose-quill, ridged, glabrous. Leaves mem- 

 branous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded, the 

 edges obscurely toothed ; both surfaces brown when dry, glabrous, the 

 lower sometimes slightly pubescent ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, little 

 curved, ascending, pronainent beneath ; length 1-5 to 2 in. ; breadth -65 

 to 1-25 in. ; petioles "25 to -4 in., slender. Heads -35 in. in diam., on 

 short peduncles, crowded in dense corymbose terminal cymes, much 

 longer than the leaves. Cypselas compressed, 4-angled, puberulous ; 

 pappus copious, reddish, much longer than the minute achenes. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 57 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 82 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 III. 257. Conyza volubilis, Wall. Cat. 3057. Erigeron p)yrifolius, 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk., 176. 



Peeak: Bidley 2890; Wray 2472. Penang : Wallich 3057. 

 — Disteib. British India, Burma, Malay Archipelago, China. 



