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1071. Punicaria anaustirouia DC.; F. B. I. iii. 299. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A softly pubescent annual. 
461. Emilia Cass. 
_ Annual or perennial herbs, often glaucous, glabrous or hairy ; 
tadical leaves crowded, petioled, entire, toothed or lyrate-pinnatifid ; 
cauline few, stem-clasping. Flower-heads homogamous, disciform, 
yellow or red, long-peduncled, solitary or laxly corymbose, not 
_ bracteate at base; florets all hermaphrodite, fertile; involucre 
cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, free or connate, striate; recep- 
tacle flat, naked. Calya-limb setose. Petals connate in tubular 
corollas, with long, cylindric limb, slightly 5-fid at the apex. 
mens thers with subobtuse, entire bases. 
Style with subterete arms, tips short obtuse, or long acute 
Cypsela subterete, or angled and 5-ribbed; pappus-hairs copious, 
White, soft, slender. 
2. Eminia soncutrou1a DC.; F. B. I. iii. 386. Cacalia son- 
chifolia F. I. iii. 418, 
In all the provinces. 
A glabrous weed. Beng. Sadi-modi. 
462. Senecio Linn. 
: Herbs, undershrubs or shrubs; leaves radical or alternate, 
Satire or variously divided. Flower-heads heterogamous, usually 
_ Yellow, solitary, corymbose or racemose; outer florets rayed, 
female, rarely 0; disk-florets hermaphrodite, all fertile ; involucre 
/ "ous; bracts 1-seriate or sub-2-seriate, equal, erect, free or 
} “Onnate at base, with few or many, very short outer ones ; recep- 
Bele fat or convex, naked, pitted, or fimbrillate. Caly«-limb 
_ Mlose. Petals of ray-florets connate in ligulate corollas, the blade 
large or small ; of hermaphrodite florets connate in regular tubular 
 .. arms, tips truncate and penicillate, rarely rounded, or 
: —_s short, narrow point. Cypsela subterete, or those of outer 
forets dorsally compressed, 5-10-ribbed ; pappus-hairs copious or 
Soft, white, smooth, scabrid or bearded. 
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