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ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTAN Y. 
ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN 
BOTANY. 
By Dr. Wight & G. A. W. Arnott, Esq. 
( Conti IF 
from p. 39. ) 
TRICHOLEPIS CANDOLLEANA. 
ic Tas. IV. 
Caule ramoso diffuso, ramis angulatis, 
folis oblongo-lanceolatis Spinoso-ser- 
ratis epunctatis supra glabris subtus 
farinoso-puberulis, involucri ovati squa- 
mis subaraneosis, appendice subulata 
spinescenti innocua glabra, pappl serie 
interno paleaceo exterioribus capillari- 
bus, paleis setisque ciliolatis. 
Tricholepis Candolleaná. Wight, Cat. n. 
1495 
Carduus ramosus. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 8. P 
406 
Carduus Indicus. Rozb. in Cet. Merc. 
Angl. Ind. Or. Mus. tab. 420. 
Descr. Root annual, simple, perpen- 
dicular. Stems short, branched, diffuse, 
angled and striated, somewhat glabrous. 
Branches forked ; the whole plant from one 
not decurrent, oblong-lanceolate, tapering 
towards the base, where they are occasion- 
ally again dilated, and embracing the 
branches, entire, or sometimes slightly ly- 
rate, serrated, the serratures thorny, upper 
ide in all our specimens glabrous and free 
from dots, under also nearly glabrous or 
slightly puberulous (downy according to 
Roxburgh). Heads of flowers shortly pe- 
duncled, not bracteated. Znvolucre many- 
flowered, ovate, the scales imbricated, oval, 
covered with an almost imperceptible web- 
bed down, ending ina longish setaceous, gla- 
brous, spreading orrecurved,subulate, rigid, 
but inoffensive appendage. Corollas thick- 
ish, all tubular, and containing b stamens 
and pistil, five-cleft, regular, or nearly so: 
segments oblong linear. mens scarcely 
seeding the tube of the corolla (in the 
accompanying figure they are represented 
longer than either Mr. Arnott or I have 
observed them); filaments papillose : an- 
thers caudate at the base, the caude small 
4L 
. hd jagged ; the appendages at the apex or 
cm 
(production of the connectivum be- 
OL. I, 
8l 
yond the cells) are linear, oblong and acute. 
Style filiform, bifid, enclosed within the 
anther-tube, thickened or knotted below 
the cloven portion, and there bearing a 
crown of numerous longish hairs ; segments 
linear, obtuse, puberulous on the outside; 
with two obscure lines on the inner, reach- 
ing to and coalescing at their apex. Fim- 
brille of the rachis cleft into several slen- 
der bristles. Bracteoles wanting. Ache- 
nium oblong, angled, ribbed and tubercled 
on two of the contiguous sides, smoothish 
on the other, not beaked, crowned with a 
narrow, marginal ring. Pappus situated 
within the ring of the fruit, composed of 
several rows of bristles and palew; the 
outer ones are shortest and most slender; 
the inner considerably longer and broader ; 
all are slightly ciliated on the margin. The 
hilum or rather callosity attaching the ache- 
nium to the rachis is slightly on one side. 
The specimens figured were from the 
hill of Narthamela, in the Salem district. 
Mr. Arnott, (who has assisted me in the 
above description,) as well as myself, has 
little doubt about this being Carduus ra- 
mosus of Roxburgh; whether the C. radi- 
cans, Roxb. (Tricholepis radicans, De 
Cand. Prod. v. 5. ined.) be really distinct, 
we cannot at present determine, as my spe- 
cimens are now with M. De Candolle; but 
in the manuscript character of that species 
sent us by De Candolle, and in the descrip- 
tion given by Roxburgh, the leaves are ap- 
parently narrow, and dotted on the upper 
surface, 1th pp 1 g fthei lucral 
scales said to be more slender. T. radicans 
is a Mysore plant, and was only known to 
Roxburgh as cultivated in the Botanic Gar- 
den of Calcutta. 
Fig. 1. Floret. 2. Floret laid open. 3. Ache- 
nium. 4, Section of ditto :—magnified. 
WEDELIA CALENDULACEA, 
Tas. V. 
ns, ramulis 
gosis, pedunculis ex axillis superiori- 
bus vel terminalibus solitariis elonga- 
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