624 BENGAL PLANTS. [ Saussurea. 
1112. SaussurEa arrinis Spreng.; F. B. I. iii. 878. Serratula 
carthamoides F, I. iii. 407. 
N. and E. Bengal; Chittagong. 
An annual herb, 2-8 feet high, stem as thick as the 
little finger. 
1113. SaussurEa canpicans Clarke; F. B. I. iii. 873; E. D. 
Ss. 904. 
Chota Nagpur. 
An annual herb, 2-5 feet high, stem as thick as the 
thumb; occasionally small, with scapose, 1- headed 
ste. 
494, Goniocaulon Cass. 
An erect, glabrous, branched annual; stem acutely 4-8-angled; 
leaves narrow, alternate, toothed. Flower-heads narrow, fascicled 
and corymbose, homogamous; florets few, all hermaphrodite, 
fertile ; involucre oblong, base very narrow; bracts many-seriate, 
pale, very narrow, rigid, erect, acute, not spinescent, outer gradu- 
y shorter; receptacle very narrow, paleaceous. Calyx-limb 
ch Petals connate in regular, similar, slender corollas, with 
nein cylindric, deeply 5-cleft limb. Stamens syngenesious ; fila- 
ents hirsute; anthers with sagittate base, connate; tails s ort. 
Style with filiform arms. Cypsela glabrous, oblong, subeylindric, 
about 20-ribbed; basal secali straight; pappus-seales many- 
seriate, very unequal. 
1114. Gontocautow GLABRUM Cass. ; F. B. L. iii. 377. Athanasia 
indica F. 1. i 
° 
& 
W. Behar. 
An erect, glabrous, branched annual, 1-8 feet high. 
495. Yolutarella Cass. 
Annual herbs, dichotomously branched; leaves alternate. 
Flower-heads subsolitary, purple, violet, or blue, heterogamous; 
outer florets 1-seriate, neuter; inner herma sat , fertile; in- 
volucre ovoid or globose ; bracts many- “seriate, i ane narrow, 
rt 
filiform, free or connate arms, Cypsela obovoid or oblong, 
