604 BENGAL PLANTS. [Vicoa. 
Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or serrulate, 
often scabrid above; bracts of the involucre hardly recurved; a slender, 
rigid annual, pubescen aa viscid or glabrate .auriculata. 
Leaves oblong or linear-oblong, chine: or subacute, serrate, softly hairy ; 
bracts of the involucre squarrose, their tips filiform, recurved; 4 short, 
rather stout, woolly, or softly hairy herb .........-..sseesreresnernerseees vestita. 
_ 1068. VICOA AURICULATA Cass.; F. B. I. iii. 297. Doronicum 
eae F, I. iii. 484. 
Ti ; Behar; Ses Nagpur 
A si rigid, usually ieacuinas leafy annual. 
1069. Vicoa vestiTa Benth.; F. B. I. iii. 297. 
irhut; Behar; N. Dan 
A softly woolly or hairy ci 
460. Pulicaria Gaertn. 
Annual or perennial, usually woolly or villous herbs; leaves 
alternate, sessile, often stem-clasping. Flower-heads hetero- 
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obconic; bracts few-seriate, narrow, epenlse 7S or awned ; 
tacle flat or subconvex, pitted. Calyx-limb irregularly ano annular. 
Petals of ray-florets connate, narrowly ligulate, or in a minutely 
2-8-toothed, oblique, short tube, or 0; of hermaphrodite florets 5, 
connate in regular, slender, tubular corollas, with narrowly elon- 
gated, shortly 5-fid limb. Stamens syngenesious ; anthers He 
sagittate base ; tails very slender, simple or branched. Style 0 
hermaphrodite florets with linear, slightly flattened, obtuse eae 
Cypsela terete or ribbed; pappus double, outer of short, jags® 
teeth, inner of smooth, scabrid or bearded, filiform or flatte 
airs. 
Bracts of the involucre almost setaceous ; leaves with a wide or co? 
tracted half-stem-clasping base ; ray-florets tubular ; achenes hairy 
folilos. 
Bracts of the involucre herbaceous, lanceolate; leaves ao a pec 
base; ray-florets usually ligulate ; achenes glabrate ..---+--- ngustif 
pete PuLtcaria Fou1oLosa DC.; F. B. I. iii. 298; E. D. P+ 1408. 
Tirhut ; Behar; N. Ben 
A much-branched pubusostis annual. 
