Senecio] LXII. COMPOSITE 403 



escence cottony, 1. ovate-acuminate from a cordate base, blade 3-5, pet. 1-2 in. long, 

 heads large few in axillary pedunculate corymbs, invol. bracts 8, white-tomentose, with 

 thin glabrous edges. 



D. Fl. numerous. Erect. 



9. S. densiflorus, Wall. Nepal. Sikkirn, 5-7,000 ft. Bhutan. Khasi and Naga hills. 

 Tenasserim. Branches stout, as well as underside of 1. and corymbs clothed with 

 white cottony wool. 1. lanceolate, sharply serrate, blade 5-9, pet. J— 1 in. long, heads 

 numerous, corymbs usually arranged in a large terminal panicle. 10. S. Nagensium, 

 ('. I!. Clarke in .1. .urn. Linn. Soc. XXV. 39, and 11. S. Rhabdos, C. B. Clarke I.e. 40, t. 19, 

 both Naga hills and Manipur, similar to 9. 



OnoEit LXIII. — Goodeniaceae. Sccevola, Linn.: Fl. Brit. Ind. ill. 421. Shrubs with 

 large pith. I. alternate, stipules 0. Fl. in short axillary cymes, calyx adnate to ovary, 

 lobes 5. Corolla oblique, split to the base on t 1m- back, stamens 5, inserted nt tin- base 

 of corolla. Ovary 2-celled, ovules basal, 1 in each cell, style simple, a cup-shaped 

 indusium, including the stigma. Pr. a drupe, crowned by the enlarged calyx-segments. 

 1. S. Kcenigii, Vahl iN. Taccada, Boxb. : Wight 111. t. 137); Bhadrak, Mar.: Piple-tan, 

 Burm. Sand hills near the sea, Sind, both Peninsulas, Andamans, Malay Peninsula, 

 Tonkin. Ind. Archip. NewGuinea. Australia and Polynesia. L. glabrous or silky, 



ubovate, obtuse. 8-s in., narrowed into a short petiole. PI. whit ■ pale lilac, soon 



turning brown, calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, corolla funnel-shaped, hairy within, 

 i ube curved, j in. long, lobes spreading. Drupe white, J— A in. diam.. very succulent, 

 stone rough, bony. '2. S. Plumieri, Yah!; Triiiien Handbook Ceylon iii. 55 (S. Lobelia, 

 Linn.: Fl. Brit. 'ind. iii. 121; S. uvifera, Stocks; Wight Ic. t. 1613). Sen coast of 

 si in 1. 1 lie Western Peninsula and Ceylon. Littoral in the tropics of both hemispheres. 

 L. miiii Her. calyx-lobes very short, obt use, drupe purple, resembling a grape berry. 



Obdek LXIV. ERICACE2E (including Vacciniacece, Gen. PL ii. 

 564 and Ericacece 577). 



Shrubs, .small trees or wiry herbs, 1. simple, alternate, stipules 0. Fl. 

 bisexual, I- or 5-merous, corolla gamopetalous, stamens as a rule twice the 

 number of corolla-lobes, anthers 2-celled, opening at the top by 2 pores or 

 short slits. ( (vary inferior or superior, ■!-, 5- or many-celled, ovules on ah 

 a.xile placenta, numerous in each cell. Style slender, stigma entire or minutely 

 lolie.l. Seeds small, a straight embryo in fleshy albumen. 



Tribe I. Yiiri-iniiiriir. < >vary inferior. 



Corolla long and tubular, or cauipanuhite with long segments, fl. corymbose or 

 fascicled. 

 Calyx-limb 5-lobed, tube terete .... 1. Agai-etes. 

 Calyx-limb 5-lobed, tube 5-ribhed . . . ,2. Pbntaptbbyqium. 



it-limb ent ire Desmoci m p. loii). 



i orolla campanulate or ovoid, teeth short. 



Fl. in axillarj racemes '■'■■ Vaccinium. 



PI. in corymbs from the old wood .... Coballobotrys (p. 108). 



Tribe II. Ericaceae. — Ovary free, 

 i la psule loculicidallj 5-valved. 



Calj k succulent in fr., enclosing the capsule. 



Anthers with 2 horns on back . . . .4. Gadlthbbia. 

 A ii 1 hers n il bout horns 6. Din a osi i. 



( ';il\ \ not n Itered in fr.. fl. solitat i ii led. 



I. small, sessile, appressed to stem, imbricate Cassiopi p. i" s . 



L. petioled, approximate at the ends ol branches Enkianthus (p. 108). 



i ,i i j \ noi altei ea in fr., fl. in racemes. 



s I- linen oblong, not fringed . . .6. Pibris. 



s Is nearly orbicular, fringed . . . Lbdcothob p, 109), 



Capsule septioidallj 5-20- vol ved, fl. showy . . .7. Rs bndron. 



In taking ihi~ < Irder in the wider sense, ] follow my Flora ol North-west and Central 



India 279, and Drude in Engler u. Prontl iv. 1. L6. Diplycoria stands inten liate 



between the genera with superior and those with inferior ovary. 



