588 BENGAL PLANTS. [Ethulia. 
ligules 5-toothed ; anthers cleft at base, rarely appendaged at apex; 
leaves radical or eeneths stem always herbaceous, fistulose ; sap milky 
(CicHoRIEz) :—[p. 581] 
Pappus of scales, with poupetiines alternating hairs, or pappne absent ; 
achenes truncate; florets b hori 
Pappus of hair- — eae. a least in the central florets of a heads ; 
florets yellow 
Pappus- halsl feathery ; achenes contracted at both ends, ribbed, 
ugose Picris. 
— ane simple 
Ache — a also contracted at the base, ribbed; ribs 
rugose or smooth :— 
Achenes pace or ont Bins! shortly cylindric, often 
slender, glabrous, or puberulous \..........csesseseeeeeeseeners Crepis. 
Achenes eo ah or anak ovoid, oblong, or narrow 
Lac 
Achenes not beaked :— 
Achenes narrowed at base, truncate at apex :— ust 
Achenes oblong with 4-5 rugose ribs ......-+.++++-++++ Picridium. 
Achenes compressed, many-ribbed ; ribs smooth or rugos¢ 
Sonchus. 
Achenes truncate at base as well as at apex ......+s++10+ Launea- 
438, Ethulia Linn. 
Branching herbs; reat alternate, penninerved, serrate. 
Flower-heads small, hom ous; involucre subcampanulate; 
corollas ; are campanula’ narrow. amens 5, SYD 
genesious ; anthers na a Style with subu ; 
pu arms. Cypsela glandu bay: between the Heh ominen 
4-6 ribs; areole broad with a callous ring; 95 dat 0. 
1019. Ernutta conyzorpes Linn.; F. B. I. iii. 227. EB. ramos 
. iii, 413. 
E. Bengal ; Tippera. 
An erect, glabrous or puberulous Jeafy annual. 
439. Centratherum Cass. 
Branching herbs, erect or diffuse; leaves alternate, petioled, 
toothed. Flower-heads nee ciat dy involucre subhemispheri¢ 
bracts many-seriate, inner arious, outer herbaceous, often 
leafy ; receptacle flat, seins or "pitted, Calys-limb short. Rae 
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