246 Lxxviii. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Dichroce^hala. 



3. Di Bamlltonl, Baok. f. ; robust, sparselj pubescent, leaves sessile 

 j-amplexicaul obovate coarsely toothed, heads globose panicled shortly pe- 

 duncled, corolla of $ fl, short, inflated mouth minute entire, ^ ^ery few 

 funnel-shaped 4-fid, achenes cuneiform flattened, margins thickened. Ootula 

 sinapifolia, Soxi. Bwt. Meng. 62; Wall. Cat. 3237 D?. 0. dichrocephala, 

 Clarke Comp. hid. 150. 



Assam ; at Meteabo, Hamilton ; Brahmaputra plains, Kerb. Calcutta. 



Annual, stem 6-10 in., much stouter than in any of thp other species. Leaves 

 l-'i in., sparsely pubescent on both surfaces. Heads ^ in. diam, ; iuvol. bracts very 

 short, obtuse, hidden undeT the ripe achenes ; receptacle conTex. 



** Receptacle slightly convex. 



4. D. Benthamli, Clarke Comp. Ind. 36; suberect with ascending 

 branches pubescent, leaves obovate sirraately lobed or spathulate, heads J in. 

 diam. hemispheric. 



Khasia Mts. ; alt. 3-5000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T., 'ClarJce. 



Habit of -D. latifolia, but with so different ahead -and receptacle as almost to suggest 

 generic separation. Corolla of J fl. elongate,'OToid or subureeolate, minutely-toothed. 

 — Clarke has erroneously described the ? as 3fid. to the base, and stated that Ben- 

 tham had confounded this with D. chrysanthemifolia. 



13. CYATKOCI.INE, Cass. 



&ect, annual, odorous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect. Heads small, 

 (panicled, heterogamous, not rayed ; outer fl. oo -seriate ; J fertile, filiform, 2- 

 toothed.; disk-fl. 5; usually sterile, regular, 6-cleft. Involucre hemispheric; 

 bracts sub- 2-seriate, lanceolate, acute, margins soariaus ; receptacle with a 

 contracted base, -elevated, top concave, naked. Anther-bases truncate. Style 

 exserted,'of t^ simple or cleft. Achenes minute, oblong, smooth ; pappus 0. — 

 DisTEiB. Species all Indian. 



1. C. lyrata, Cass.; DC. Prodr. v. 374; sparsely hairy, branched, lower 

 leaves obovate, upper or all pinnatifid, heads in small rounded panicled corymbs 

 rose-purple. Wight le. t. 1098 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 37. 0, stricta, DC. I. c. 

 374. 0. Lawii, Wight, in Cole. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1846 pt. ii. 169, not of Dalz. 

 Tanacetum viscosum, Wall. Cat. 3232. T. pui-pureum, Don Pi-edr. 181. Ar- 

 temisia hirsuta, Mottl. ; Spreng Syst. iii. 490, jZd. DC. 



Western Himalaya ; from Kashmir, alt. 1-4000 ft,, and Kumaon, alt. 4-5000 ft., 

 to Nipal, Wallich, and Bhotan, Griffith. Oudb, Behar, Chota Nagpore, Bbngai,, 

 Assam, Mtjniwpoee, Chittagong, Eangoon, Birma, and the Western PENiNSntA. 



Stem 1-2 ft., soft.- Leaves 1-6 in., segments toothed. Heads ^ in. diam., yellow. 

 — C Lawii is merely a very slender form. 



2. C. lutea, Lam mss. ; Wight in Cede. Journ. Nat, Hist. 1846, pt. ii. 158, 

 t. 2, f. 1-; Ic. t. 1150 ; pubescent, stems many from the root slender 3-8 in., 

 radical leaves linear bipinnatifid revolute cauUn« alternate, segments minute, 

 heads few in subscorpioid cymes yellow. Clarke Comp. Ind. 37 (C.jiava by 

 error). 0. Lawii, Dalz. Sg Qihs. Bomb. Fl. 124, not of Wight. 



The CoNCAN ; on the Ghats, alt. 2-4000 ft.. Law, &c. 



A curious and very beautiful little plant, with stellately spreading radical leaves, 

 1-2 by ^ in., and very numerous slender flexuous scape-like stems branched above, 

 the branches bearing-a few, small, yellow heads. 



14. GRAKGEA, Forsk. 



Suberect oi prostrate villous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid. Heads 

 terminal or leaf-opposed, subglobose, not rayed, yellow ; outer fl. l-oo -seriate, 



