630 BENGAL PLANTS. {Launea. 
at, naked. Calyz-limb setose. Petals connate in ligulate 
corollas, with truncate, 5-toothed lamina. Stamens syngenesious ; 
anthers with sagittate base; auricles acute or shortly setaceous. 
Style-arms slender. Cypsela narrow, subte rete, or angled or 
slightly Sotened, rarely winged, truncate at both ends or rarely. 
copious, hairs many-seriate, simple, very slender, white, a few 
inner sometimes larger and stronger, all connate at the base into a 
deciduous ring. 
Heads terminal, or racemose on the paniculately branched flowering 
stem :— 
Margins of the a with few or no teeth; teeth, if plies not 
cartilaginous at the ti eniifolia. 
Margins of the hie slo sharply toothed, the teeth “ile prt 
and cartilaginous at the ti dicaulis 
Heads solitary or mario a the nodes of the gel, rooting, 
flowering stem innatijida. 
fe eere eee 
1127, BF og ASPLENUIFOLIA Hook. f.; F. B. 1. iii. 415; E. D. 
“Mengiie  apleniifolia F, I, iii, 404 partly. 
er all the provin 
e perennial ead a a slender, vertical, very long 
ootstock. Beng. Tik-chana; Santal, Rirmalla; Hind. 
Tilia a (Tirhut). 
1128, Launea nupicautis Less.; F. B. I. iii. 416; E. D. b. 112. 
Prenanthes procumbens F. I. iii. 405. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; W. Bengal. ‘ 
A perennial weed. 
1129. Launga PrInnatiFIpDA Cass.; F. B. I. iii. 417 ; E. D. L. 114. 
Prenanthes aspleniifolia F. I. iii, 404 partly. 
Orissa, on the sand-dunes 
A perennial herb, * 
Order LXXII. STYLIDEA. 
Herbs, rarely undershrubs. Leaves radical or alternate, or fas- 
cicled and spuriously a — stipules 0. Flowers her- 
maphrodite or 1-sexual by n, in racemose cymes or panicles - 
or corymbs; usually ‘edie. Sepals connate in a 2-lipped 
