580 BENGAL PLANTS. [Spermacoce. 
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1016. Spermacoce stricta Linn. f.; F. I. i. 870; F.B. L iii. 200. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
A herb, usually erect, always annual. 
1017. SpeRMAcocE uHispipA Linn.; F. I. i. 873; F. B. I. iii. 200; 
O15. 
In all the western provinces. 
A herb, always procumbent, often perennial. Hind. 
Madanaghanti; Santal. Pitua arak’. 
437. Rubia Linn. 
Herbs, erect, diffuse or climbing, hispid, seabrid or prickly ; 
stems slender, quadrate ; leaves in whorls of 4-8; stipules 0; rarely | 
leaves opposite and stipulate. Flowers small or minute in axillary 
and terminal cymes ; pedicel jointed under ovary. Sepals connate 
in a globose or ovoid calyx-tube; limb 0. Petals 4-5, connate in 
a rotate, funnel-shaped or shortly campanulate corolla; lobes — 
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or styles 2, short; stigmas capitate. Fruit small, fleshy, didy- 
mous, or globose by suppression of one carpel. Seed suberect, 
adnate to pericarp; testa membranous; albumen horny ; embry? 
somewhat curved ; cotyledons broad, foliaceous. 
UBIA CORDIFOLIA Linn.; F. B, I. iii. 202; E. D. B. 564 
R. Munjista F. 1. i. 374. 
Chota Nagpur, Parasnath. : 
\ A climbing herb with perennial root-stock. Verna — 
Manjith. 
Order LXXI. COMPOSITE. : 
Herbs or shrubs, rarely trees, Leaves alternate, rarely opposite 
or whorled ; simple or less often compound ; stipules 0. wer 
many, small (florets), aggregated in centripetal heads, sessile oP 
the dilated top of the peduncle (receptacle), the heads enclosed gre 
an involuecre of 1- or more-seriate, free or connate bracts; brac-~ 
teoles 0, or reduced to paleate scales or bristles on the receptacle: 
individual florets all tubular (head discoid), or the outer, or 2 
ligulate (head rayed) ; all 2-sexual or the inner 2-sexual or male, 
the outer female or neuter; sometimes diecious. Sepals connate 
