614 BENGAL PLANTS. [Spilanthes. 
truncate, entire, or 2-toothed base. Style of hermaphrodite florets 
with truncate arms. Cypsela of ray trigonous or dors ally com- 
Sm margins and angles usually ciliate; pappus 0, or of 2-8 
brist 
‘sol ‘semanas Acwenna Linn.; F. B. I. iii. 807; EB. D. 
2571. 
° Cal Nagpur; N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
An erect annual herb. Beng. Marhata-tiga. 
476. Guizotia Cass. 
Annual herbs; leaves bee or the upper alternate. Flower- 
ray- florets 1-seriate, iis ; disk-florets hermaphrodite, all 
fertile ; i 
ene th inner passing into aye ; receptacle convex OF conic ; 
pales flat, searious. Calyz-limb obsolete. Petals of ray-florets 
connate in yellow, ligulate corollas, with 9-3-toothed lamina; of 
hermaphrodite florets connate in regular tubular corollas, with 
campanulate, 5-fid limb; corolla-tube of both kinds short, woolly, 
embracing the top of the cypsela. Stamens syngenesious ; anthers 
with entire, truncate base. Style of ficitinis BFORIRG florets with 
s ending in subulate, hairy tips. Cypsela glabrous, dorsally 
Ser eaced apex rounded ; pappus 0 
1098. GuizoTtIa aBysstNIca Cass. ; F. B. I. iii. 308; E. D. G- 735. 
Verbesina sativa F, I. iii. 441. 
tivated in all the western and northern pro viNnces. 
A stout, erect, annual oil-seed crop of the cold season. 
Vernac. Surgija, ram-tila. 
477. Synedrella Gaertn. 
Annual, branched, pubescent or villous herbs; leaves opposite, 
petioled, ‘éotlia d. lower-heads small, axillary and terminal, 
heterogamous, rayed; ray-florets 1-2-seriate, female ; disk-florets 
hermaphrodite, all fertile; involucre ovoid or oblong; practs few: 
the outer 1 or 2 foliaceous, the others passing to pales ; recep: 
tacle small; pales flat, scarious. Calyx-limb 2-3- cuted, Petals 
of ray-florets connate in ligulate corollas, with short, broad, 2-3 
toothed, yellow lamina; of hermaphrodite florets connate in 
regular 
tubular corollas, with 4-toothed limb. Stamens cee 
nesious; anthers with subentire bases. Style of 
