~— Cichorium.) COMPOSIT. 625 
or almost winged, 5-15-ribbed, often striate and pitted between 
_ the ribs; basal areola oblique or lateral ; pappus-bristles many- 
 seriate, the outer gradually shorter, innermost 2-4, dilated or 
flattened. 
1115. Vonurarenia prvartcata Benth.; F. B. I. iii. 383 ; E. D. 
V. 279. Carduus ramosus F. I. iii. 407. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur. 
An annual, straggling, stiff weed. 
496. Carthamus Linn. 
seriate, inner dry, entire, or with a short, fimbriate appendage, 
: with a foliaceous, toothed, or spinescent appendage, some- 
times absent in cultivated individuals ; receptacle flat, densely 
with paleaceous, many-seriate pappus- 
1116, Carruamus tinctrortus Linn. ; 
iii, 886; E. D. OC. 637. 
Cultivated in the western and northern provinces. 
A thistle-like herb, Vernac. Kusumb, kajirah. The 
Safflower. 
F. I. ii. 409; F. B. 1. 
497. Cichorium Linn. 
Erect, glabrous or hispid herbs, with divaricate, sometimes 
spinescent branches; leaves upper subentire, lower pinnatifid. 
Flower-heads sessile on the branches or on thickened peduncles, 
homogamous, blue, ligulate ; inyolucre narrow ; inner bracts 
L-seriate, at length concave at the base with the outer florets in 
the concavity, outer few, shorter } receptacle flat, naked or some- 
what fimbrillate. Calys-limb chafly. Petals connate in arrow, 
i corollas, lamina truncate, 5-too' Stamens synge- 
