Athroisma.] COMPOSIT#. 601 
narrow, acute, dry, unequal; receptacle small, naked. Calyx- 
limb obsolete. Petals of female florets connate in filiform, 
minutely 2-3-toothed corollas; of hermaphrodite florets connate 
Stamens syngenesious ; anthers sagittate at base ; auricles acute 
ortailed. Style of hermaphrodite florets with filiform arms, or 
Clusters of heads small on glabrous peduncles with entire wings ; bracts 
i africanus, 
cus F’. I. iii. 446. 
C. and E. Bengal; Sundribuns, 
A slender, usually glabrous herb; in swamps. 
1061. SpHaranruus inpicus Linn.; F. B. I. iii, 275; E. D. 
S. 2518. S. mollis ¥, 1. iii. 446. 
Tn all the provinces. 
A villous weed; common in rice-fields. Hind. Mundi; 
Beng. Ghork-mundi, chaggul-nadi, murmuria ; Santal. 
Belaunja. 
456. Athroisma DC. 
A viscid, glabrous or pubescent annual; leaves alternate, 
petioled, pinnatifid. Flower-heads small, heterogamous, disci- 
form, in globose or ovoid, terminal, peduncled clusters that are 
ile on a common cylindric receptacle ; outer florets female, 
very few, inner florets hermaphrodite, very numerous, all fertile; 
the flowers. Calyzx-limb annular. Petals of female florets con- 
hate in filiform corollas, 2-3-toothed at apex; of hermaphrodite 
florets 4, connate in regular tubular corollas, with campanulate, 
Shortly 4-lobed limb. Stamens syngenesious ; anthers with sagit- 
te bases; auricles connate, acute. Style of hermaphrodite 
florets with short, flattened, very obtuse arms. Cypsela black, 
With convex outer and flattened inner face, margin ciliate; pappus 
“short, stellately spreading, fimbriate corona. 
1062. Arsuorsma uacrntarum DC.; F. B. 1. 1. 276. 
Behar; C. and E. Bengal. 
A viscid annual weed. 
