—— otuta.) COMPOSIT #. 619 
hemispheric or wide-campanulate; bracts many-seriate, broad, 
adpressed, inner with scarious tips, outer shorter, often with 
scarious and coloured margins; receptacle flat or convex, naked. 
lamina ; 
_ corollas, with cylindric or 2-winged tube, and more or less cam- 
panulate, 4-5-lobed limb. Stamens syngenesious; anthers with 
obtuse, entire base. Style of hermaphrodite florets with arms 
truncate and penicillate at their tips. Cypsela subterete or 
angled, variously ribbed or winged; pappus 0 or short, or cupular 
or auriculate. 
1102. CurysanrHemum coronartum Linn.; F. B. I. iii. 314; 
E. D. c. 1048. Pyrethrum indicum F. I. iii. 436. 
N. Bengal. 
An annual herb; a cold-weather field crop. Hind. 
Gul-chini; Beng. Gul-dandi. 
486, Cotula Linn. 
Perennial or annual, often creeping, small herbs ; leaves alter- 
_ hate, pinnatifid or pinnatisect, rarely entire or toothed. Flower- 
eads small, peduncled, yellow, heterogamous, rarely homogamous, 
disciform ; outer florets female, 1-2-seriate; inner florets her- 
maphrodite, all fertile or inner sometimes sterile; involucre 
: hemispheric or campanulate; bracts sub-2-seriate, herbaceous or 
ious; receptacle naked. Calyzx- 
Entire bases. Style of hermaphrodite florets with truncate or 
obtuse arms, of sterile florets occasionally entire. Cypsela of ray- 
florets or of all florets stipitate, compressed, 9-4-nerved or nerve- 
corolla, 
less, sometimes sheathed above by the base of the 
“ometimes with a short, auriculate pappus. 
Achenes ovate, with thick, narrow wings; leaf-segments not mucronate 
anthemoides. 
: Achenes angled but not winged ; leaf-segments mucronate...hemispherica. 
