40 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



pedicels usually in scanty, lax, long-peduncled, axillary and terminal 

 cymes longer than the leaves ; bracteoles of the panicle and of the 

 calyculus at the base of the involucre few, small, linear. Involucre 

 spreading little, its bracts narrowly oblong, subacute or blunt, 

 glabrous ; their edges scarious, nearly as long as the florets. 

 Cypselas small, brown, with 10 puberulous ribs ; pappus white. 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 335. G. Finlaysoniana, DC. I.e. 299; 

 Deless. Ic. Sel. IV. t. 55. Gacalia cylindrifolia, reclinata, and Fin- 

 laysoniana, Wall. Cat. 3150, 3151, 3162. Sonchus volubilis, Eumph. 

 Herb. Amb. V. t. 103 f. 2. 



In all the provinces, common. — Disteib. Malayan Archipelago ; 

 Siam ; Philippines. 



2. Gynuea bicolor, DC. Prod. VI. 299. Herbaceous, 2 or 3 feet 

 high, glabrous or sparsely and minutely glandular-hairy on the upper 

 part ; stems erect, branched, about the thickness of a quill near the 

 base, boldly striate when dry. Leaves pinnatisect or pinnatifid, the 

 lobules acutely dentate ; the terminal lobe narrow and acuminate, 

 narrowed at the base into a petiole varying in length from -5 to 1 in. ; 

 the upper sessile and often auriculate at the base, or shorter and 

 narrowly obtuse with large teeth ; length 2-5 to 5 in. ; breadth -4 to 

 3 in. Heads about "5 in. long, less in diam. Involucral bracts 

 narrow, with scarious margins and acute often recurved tips. 

 Cypselas very slender, much ribbed, sub-glabrous ; pappus copious, 

 white, tinged with pink. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. Ill, 335. Gacalia- 

 bicolor, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 412 ; SaHsb. Hort. Parad. t. 25 ; Bot. 

 Eegist. t. 110. 



Singapore : Bidley 1618. Johorb : Bidley 2741 ; King. Peeak : 

 Wray 1445, 3599. Penang : Deschamvs. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.), 

 3235. — DiSTRiB. China, Moluccas. 



14. SiEGESBECKiA, Linn. 



Glandular-pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, toothed. Heads in 

 leafy panicles, heterogamous, sub-radiate, yellow or white. Bay- 

 florets ? , in a single series, fertile, the corollas short-tubed, with 

 2-3-fid limb or a short, broad ligule. Dish-florets §, fertile, or 

 the inner ones sterile ; the corollas regular, tubular, the limb cam- 

 panulate and 5 -fid or narrow and 3- to 4-toothed. Involucre cam- 

 panulate or hemispheric, the bracts few, herbaceous, glandular, the 

 outer usually 5, spathulate, spreading; the inner enclosing the ray- 

 florets. BeceiUacle small; the pales membranous, concave. Anthers 

 with entire bases. Style of ^ florets with short, flattened, sub-acute 

 arms. Cy])selas obovoid-oblong, often incurved, their apices obtuse ; 



