COMPOSITZ:. 621 
maphrodite florets with 2-fid arms. Cypsela subcylindric, slender, 
broadly ribbed, hairy only at the base ; popens 
106. SpHaRomorPHa&A Russeiana DC.; F. B. I. iii, 317. 
Bengal ; Chota Nagpur; risen, 
A small, diffuse, straggling weed, 
489. Artemisia Linn. 
Herbs or shrubs, usually strong- scented; leaves alternate, 
entire, serrate or 1-3-pinnatisect. Flower-heads small, solitary 
or fascicled, racemose or panicled, heterogamous or homogamous, 
rm; outer florets female, 1-seriate, fertile ; disk-florets her- 
maphrodite, fertile or sterile ; involucre ovoid, ics or — 
spheric; bracts few-seriate, outer shorter, margins scarious 
teceptacle flat or raised, naked or hirsute, Caly-- ‘im si aeke: 
Petals of outer florets connate in very slender corollas, with 2-3- 
of hermaphrodite florets regular, tubular, with 5-fid 
limb, Stamens syngenesious; anthers with obtuse, entire base. 
Style of hermaphrodite florets ae arms truncate, usually peni- 
cillate, when florets sterile the arms often connate. Cypsela very 
minute, ellipsoid, oblong or mee ge faintly striate ; pappus 0. 
Perennial; heads heterogamous; outer florets female, disk-florets her- 
maphroite, nae leaves flabellately-lobulate .......+.++++++++- parviflora. 
Annual ; s heterogamous; outer florets female, disk-florets her- 
% maphroite, SiG: leaves capillary-multi $iG cence enkk Pettswses caruifolia. 
1107. ARTEMISIA rakvoriLons Hoxb.; FF. 1. i. aay F. ot. 
22; E. D. A. 1458. 
A shrubby, Oia wis = 1-3 feet high 
1108. Arremista carurroLtA Ham.; F. I. iti. 492 (caruifolia) 
B. I, iti, 324 
N. and E, Bengal. 
A stout, soft-stemmed plant, 2-4 feet high. 
490. Echinops Linn, 
_ Thistle-like, white, tomentose herbs ; leaves alternate, pinnatifid, 
Spinous. Flower-heads in globose, involuc balls, blue or 
White, sessile or shortly stipitate om % ©0 
flowered; florets hermaphrodite, fertile; involucre oblong; 
bracts many-seriate, rigid, pungent or spinescent, outer wee 
