228 I.XXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Centratherum, 



larger stouter peduncles, broader shorter and more regular invol. bracts, and especi- 

 ally by the coarse hairs of tie peduncles and involucre. The achenes are the same 

 in both. 



tt Pappus reddish. 



4. C. Rltcbiel, Hook. f. ; branches glabrate, leaves petioled elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate toothed white-tomentose beneath, outer invol. bracts leafy base 

 cordate, pappus equalling the corolla^tube. Gymnanthemum molle, Schvltzr 

 Bip. in PI. Hohenack. n. 93, a. 



The CoNCAN and Canara, Stocks, Sitchie, &c. 



A more slender annual than C. molle, and at once distinguished by its glabrate 

 often shining branches, the 2-6 or more large leafy oblong cordate outer inrol. 

 bracts, and the longer pappus. Heads J to nearly J in. diam. Acheties very small, 

 about ^ in. 



5. C. pbylloleenum, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 225 ; branches glabrate pubes- 

 cent or substrigose, leaves elliptic toothed or sen-ate white-tomentose beneath, 

 outer involucral leafy bracts several base contracted, pappus equalling the corolla- 

 tube. Decaneuronphyllolsenum, Z)C. J^-orfr. vii. 264. Gymnanthemum pbyllo- 

 leenum, Schultz-Bip. in PI. Sohemack. n. 274. D. molle, Dalz. 4r Oibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 122. 



The CoNCAN, Boux, Law, Jacquemont, &c. Marwak, on Mt. Aboo, King. 



Very variable, annual, stout or slender ; branches usually spreading. Leaves 2—5 

 in., usually elliptic, petioled, sometimes hardly white beneath. Heads ^-1 in. diam. ; 

 peduncles usually slender ; outer invol. bracts l-oo, spreading or deflexed, linear or 

 lanceolate, rarely oblong, sometimes much longer than the heads, white beneath ; 

 middle .bracts extremely variable, obtuse, acute or rounded, green or scarious at the 

 tip, erect or recurved, margins ciliate or not. Achenes ^ in. ; pappus reddish or 

 almost white. 



6. C. tenue, Clarke Camp. Ind. 6 ; branches slender glabrous, leaves elliptic 

 sparingly toothed, heads small, peduncles very slender, invol. bracts glabrous 

 outer 1 or 2 elongate linear or oblong, pappus much shorter than the corolla- 

 tube. 



Western Peitiksuia. ; the Concan, Gibson, Law, &c. 



Closely allied to C. phyllolanum, but much more slender, with always small heads 

 \-\ in. diam., and only 1 or 2 leafy invol. bracts, much shorter pappus, and more 

 turgid achenes only i in. long. 



** Leaves not white beneath. Outer invol. bracts shortest. 



7. C XXookeri, Clarke Comp. Ind. 3; pubescent, branches angled and 

 grooved, leaves linear-lanceolate obscurely toothed, pappus long. Decaneuron 

 angustifoliam, Herh. Ind. Or. Hook. f. 8^ T. 



The Concan, Law, Stocks. 



Annual, erect, I8-2i in., stiff, branched above. Leaves scattered, 2-3 by ^-^ in., 

 and, as well as the branches, brownish when dry and puberulous on both surfaces. 

 Heads J-f in diam. ; peduncles slender, hoary-pubescent ; bracts numerous, small, 

 none leafy Coro& 1 in. long, red. Po^jm single, equalling the corolla. Achenes^ 

 ia., linear-oblong. 



IMPEBFEOTLT KNOWN SFECHSS. 



C. Metzianttm {Diospermum Metzianum, Schultz. Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. from 

 Canara) resembles C. molle, but has the hairy invol. bracts of C. courtcdlense and no 

 pappus. The specimen is a very indifferent one. 



3 XiABIPIlACKKlJrXVXa, .SitA. 



An erect branched annual smelling of chamomile, with crisped hairs. Leavei 

 'a'ternate, petioled, toothed. Heads small, subcorymbosely panicled, homoga- 

 mous. Jnzioiitore subcampanulate J bracts oo -seriate, dry, inner acute. Recyitacle 



