612 BENGAL PLANTS. [Wedelia. 
1086. WepELIA scanpENs Clarke. W. biflora F. B. I. iii. 306. 
Verbesina scandens F. I. iii. 441. 
Sundribuns. , 
A large shrubby climber, near the sea-coast. 
1087. WepeLt1a Waxuicun Less.; F. B. I. iii. 807. Verbesina 
biflora F, I. iii. 440. 
Chota Nagpur.; N. Bengal, Duars. 
A weed of grassy places. 
473. Tithonia Desf. 
Large robust herbs, with shrubby, perennial base ; leaves alter- 
nate, petioled, entire or 3-lobed. Flower-heads large, showy, on 
long, thickened peduncles, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-florets 
neuter; disk-florets hermaphrodite, fertile ; involucre hemispheric 
or wide-campanulate ; bracts 2-seriate, slightly unequal, rigid and 
striate, close-set below, wider and leafy above; receptacle convex; 
pales folded, striate, aristate, embracing the ermaphrodite 
flowers. Calyzx-limb aristate. Petals of ray-florets connate in 
large, spreading, entire or somewhat 2-toothed, yellow ligules ; of 
disk-florets connate in regular tubular corollas ; tube slightly con- 
tracted above the base, villous; limb elongated, cylindric, 5-toothed. 
Stamens syngenesious ; anthers with entire base. Style of her- 
lous appendages. Cypsela oblong, compressed, tetragonous; 
Pappus of 2 aristé, deciduous or persistent, with numerous inter- 
vening, persistent scales. 
1088. TrrHonta TaGETIFLORA Desf. 
In most of the provinces, cultivated. : 
A large, shrubby “ Sunflower,” the leaves smelling of 
camphor; very rarely propagating itself spontaneously 
by seeds, but readily doing so by its rootstocks. 
474. Helianthus Linn. 
rayed; ray-florets 1-seriate, neuter; disk-florets hermap ’ 
ertile, sometimes from absence of ray homogamous ; involuere 
€-campanulate ; bracts -seria s or her- 
