600 BENGAL PLANTS. [Pluchea. 
their styles, 3-fid or minutely toothed at the apex ; of hermaphro- 
dite florets 5, connate in one tubular corollas, with slightly 
enlarged 5-fid limb. Stamens syngenesious 
tate bases, the cells tailed. Style of hermaphrodite florets with 
filiform, entire or 2-fid arms. Cypsela small, 4—5-angled ; pappus- 
hairs slender, 1-seriate, rigid, free, or in sterile florets many and 
connate, 
1058. PuucnEa mnpica Less; F. B. I. iii. 272; E. D. P. 961. 
Conyza corymbosa F. I. iii. 426. 
Sundribuns. 
A low shrub, growing in salt marshes and mangrove 
swamps. Beng. Munjhi rukha, kukronda. 
454, Epaltes Cass. 
erbs; leaves alternate, usually decurrent. Flower-heads 
heterogamous, disciform, small, solitary or corymbose; outer 
florets female, many-seriate, fertile; inner florets hermaphrodite, 
very few, usually sterile ; involucre broadly campanulate or hemi- 
spheric ; bracts many-seriate, dry, rigid ; receptacle flat or convex 
and raised, naked. Calyx-limb 0. Petals of female florets con- 
mall. Style of orient hiner ‘pa pace oe perv or 2-fid. 
Gusicia of female florets Sethe, 5-10-ribbed ; pappus 9; of 
trib SE usually abortive, with or without 2-3 caducous 
pappus- 
1059, wil DIvaRicaTa Cass.; F. B. I. iii. 274. 
Orissa ; sand-dunes near margin of Chilka lake. 
An annual, diffuse, glabrous herb. 
455. Spheranthus Linn. 
Low annual herbs with spreading branches ; leaves alternate, 
toothed, decurrent. Flower-heads small, heterogamous, sen 
in terminal, solitary, globose clusters, with usually an im involucre’ 4 
a few empty bracts, sessile on a common receptacle and bra¢ 
or not; outer florets few or many, female, fertile, inner solitary OF 
few, hermaphrodite, fertile or sterile; involucre narrow; bracts 
