Qrangea.] Lxxviii. COMPOSITE!. (J. D, Hooker.) 247 



$ , fertile, filiform, outermost 2-fid., inner 2-4-fld. ; disk-fl. 5 > fertile, tube very- 

 slender ; limb campanulate, 4^5-cleft. Involucre broadly campanulate ; bracts 

 few-seriate, outer herbaceous ; receptacle convex or conic, naked. Anther-bases 

 obtuse. Style-arms of ^ flattened, cuneate, obtuse or with triangular points. 

 Achenes flattened or subterete ; pappus cupular. — ^Distbib. Species 3 or 4 tro- 

 pical Asia and Africa. 



1. G. maderaspatana, Poir; DC. Prodr.\.37S; pubescent or villous, 

 stems spreading from the root prostrate, leaves sinuately pinnatifid, heads 

 solitary rarely 2-nate leaf-opposed shortly peduncled, pappus hairs connate into 

 a cylindric fimbriate tube. Wiffht le. t. 1097 ; Balz. §• (?i6«. Bomb. Fl. 124 ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 37. Artemisia maderaspatana, Roxh. Hart. Beng. 61. ; Fl. 

 Ind. iii. 412. Ootula maderaspatana, Willd. C. sphaeranthus. Link JSnum. ii. 

 344. Grangea sphseranthus, Koch in Bot. Zeit., i. 41. 



Throughout India, from the Punjab eastwards and southwards.^ — Distkib. Tropical 

 and subtropical Asia and Africa. 



A common weed, growing flat on the ground, forming patches 6-12 in. broad, and 

 more. 



15. mVRXACTXS, Less. 



Erect annuals. Leaves alternate, toothed. Heads loosely panicled or solitary, 

 homogamous, white vpith a yellow disk, rayed ; ray-fl. 2-qo -seriate, 5 , fertile, 

 small, ligulate, ligules spreading or revolute ; disk-fl. g , fertile, tubular, 6-fid. 

 Involucre hemispheric ; bracts few-seriate, narrow, margins scarious ; receptacle 

 broad, convex, naked. Anther-bases ohtass. Style-arms oi § narrow, flattened, 

 tips lanceolate. Achenes compressed, margined; -pappus 0. — Disieib. Species 

 1, or more, Asiatic and African. 



1. M. Wig'lltll, DC. in Wight Contrib. 10 ; Prodr. v. 308 ; pubescent or 

 villous, leaves ovate or lyrate distantly serrate, upper lanceolate sessile, heads 

 long-peduncled, invol. bracts acute villous, achenes shortly beaked. Wight Ic. 

 t. 1091 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 38. M. javanica, DC. I. c. ; Clarke I. e. 



Nelghehbt Mts. ; alt. 8000 ft. Cbtlok ; central province, alt. 5-8000 ft. 



A weed 2-3 ft. high ; stem rigid, branches divaricating. Leaves 1-4 in., petiole 

 winged, upper auricled. Heads J in. diam., on long strict peduncles. 



Var. bellidioides ; hirsute, 4-6 in. high, leaves radical rosnlate obovate-spathulate 

 quite entire obtuse, heads solitary on a scape-like stem. — Nilgherry Mts., Wight. 



2. m. nepalensls, Less. ; DC. Prodr. v. 308 ; glabrous villous or hispid, 

 leaves ovate or lanceolate coarsely serrate, heads subpaniculate, invol. bracts 

 acute at length reflexed, achenes mucronate at the top not beaked. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 38. M. Gmelini, DC. I. c. 309. M. oleosa andM. gracilis, Fdgew. 

 in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 65 and 66. M. camosa, Wall. Cat. 3219. Botryadenia 

 Gmelini, Fisch. Sr Mey. Ind. Sem. ii. 30 ; Regel Sert. Petrop. t. 23. -Lavenia 

 dentata. Wall. Cat. 3216 A. 



Tempebate Himalaya; from Kashmir to Sikkim, alt. 5-10,000 ft. KhasiaMts., 

 alt. 4-6000 ft.— DisTEiB. Central Asia. 



A most variable weedy plant, of which I am quite unable to make satisfactory 

 varieties ; indeed, as Bentham suggests, it may be only a form of Wightii. 



3. ItK. Walliclill, Less. ;DC.l. c. 309 ; very slender, sparsely hairy, leaves 

 elliptic-lanceolate unequally serrate, heads veiy small on slender pedicels. 

 Lavenia dentata. Wall. Cat. 3216 B. 



Tempeeatb Himaiata; Simla, Thomson. Nipal, WalUoh. Sikkim, alt. 9-12,000 

 ft. J. D. H. 



I can scarcely think this more than a slender small-headed form of M. nepalensit, 

 but if more than one species is to be kept, this must be one of them. 



