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fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 304 ; Prain Bengal Plants ; 610. Lam. 111. t. 

 687. E. alba, Hassk. PI. Jav. Ear. 528; Clarke Comp. Ind. 134;: 

 Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 304. E. marginata, Boiss. Fl. Orient. 

 III. 249. E. prostrata, Linn. Mant. IL 266 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 438. 

 E. prostrata, unclulata, and parviflora. Wall. Cat. 3209, 3210, 3213. 

 Verbesina alba and prostrata, Linn. Sp. PI. 902. 



In all the provinces. In and near cultivated ground. — Distrib.. 

 The tropics generally. 



16. Wedelia, Jacq. 



Hirsute or scabrid-pubescent herbs or undershrubs, sometimes, 

 scandent. Leaves opposite. Heads axillary or terminal, hetero- 

 gamous, rayed. Ray-florets ? , fertile, ligulate, spreading, entire, 

 or 2-toothed at the apex. Diskflorets i , fertile or the inner sterile ;, 

 the corolla tubular, regular, with elongate 6-toothed limb. Involucre 

 campanulate or sub-hemispheric ; its bracts sub-2-seriate, the outer 

 3 to 5 usually herbaceous, the inner dry; receptacle flat or convex, 

 the pales enclosing the flowers. Anthers entire or sub-sagittate at. 

 the base. Style of § florets with acute arms hirsute at their 

 tips. Gypselas cuneate-oblong or obovoid, thick, smooth or tubercled, 

 laterally compressed or the outer triquetrous, tip rounded, margins 

 obtuse or thickened ; pappus none, or reduced to a toothed cup or ring, 

 or sometimes of short scales with occasionally a few bristles. — Distrib.. 

 Species about 70, tropical and sub-tropical. 



Wedelia biflora, DC. in Wight Contrib. Fl. Ind. 18. Scandent ;: 

 stem and branches hispid-puberulous when very young, afterwards 

 almost glabrous, obtusely 4-angled, grooved when dry. Leaves mem- 

 branous, broadly ovate or ovate-subrhomboid to lanceolate, apex, 

 acuminate, edges coarsely serrate except at the broad, slightly 

 cuneate base ; both surfaces dull olivaceous green when dry, 

 minutely reticulate, sparsely hispid-puberulous ; main-nerves one 

 large pair ascending from the base of the midrib to near the apex, 

 branching outwards and one or two smaller pairs from above the- 

 middle of the midrib, all distinct on both surfaces ; length 2 to 4-5 in. ;, 

 breadth 1-25 to 2-75 in.; petioles '75 to 1-5 in., those of the branches 

 smaller. Heads about "5 in. in diam., solitary on a short peduncle- 

 •75 in. or less in length, or 2 to 4 on peduncles two or three times as- 

 long. Livolucral bracts in two rows, oblong or ovate-lanceolate,, 

 apiculate, concave, scabrid-puberulous outside like the peduncles, 

 often recurved. Eipe cypselas triquetrous, scaberulous, the apex 

 with some hairs and several short bristles, one longer than the: 

 others. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 306. W. scandens, Benth. ; Prain 

 Bengal Plants, 612 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 136 {excl. syn.). Woolastonia 



