~ Enhydra.) COMPOSIT. 609 
1080, ZinntaA PAUCIFLORA Linn. 
In gardens in every province, but occasionally also 
springing up subspontaneously. 
A rigid annual. Zinnia elegans, another species com- 
mon in gardens, does not show the same tendency to 
come up spontaneously. 
468. Siegesbeckia Linn. 
Herbs, glandular-pubescent; leaves opposite, toothed. Flower- 
| heads heterogamous, subradiate, yellow or white; ray-florets 
; female, 1-seriate, fertile; disk-florets hermaphrodite, fertile or 
_ the inner sterile: in leafy panicles; involucre campanulate or 
3 hemispheric; bracts few, herbaceous, glandular, outer usually 5, 
_ Spathulate, spreading, inner enclosing the ray-florets ; receptacle 
small, with membranous, concave pales. Calyz-limb obsolete. 
Petals of ray-florets connate in short-tubed corollas, with 2-3-fid 
limb or a short, broad ligule ; of hermaphrodite florets connate in 
lar tubular corollas, with campanulate 5-fid, or narrow 3-4- 
_ toothed limb. Stamens syngenesious; anthers with entire bases. 
_ Style of hermaphrodite florets with short, flattened, subacute 
&ms. Cypsela obovoid-oblong, often incurved; apex © tuse ; 
Pappus 0. 
1081, SizcEspecKrA ORIENTALIS Linn.; F. I. iii. 489; FU Be 
iii. 304, S. brachiata F. I. iii. 439. 
Chota Nagpur. 
A glandular-pubescent herb. 
469. Enhydra Lour. 
Glabrous or scaberulous marsh-herbs; leaves opposite, senate 
: Flower-heads axillary, subsessile, or in alternate axils, mates 
: glandular hairs, Calyx-limb obsolete. Petals of ray-florets con- 
: nate in corollas, shorter than their styles, with short, broad, 3-4- 
tooth i in regular tubular 
™® obtuse arms hispid at the tips. Cypsela oblong, enclosed in 
