248 Lxxviii. COMPOSITJE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Bhynchospermum. 



16. RKVNCHOSFERiaUIMC, Seinw. 



A slender puberulous herb -with long spreading branches. Leaves alternate. 

 Heads email, axillary and in spreading leafy panicles, heterogamous, rayed ; 

 ray-fl. $ , 2-3-seriatp, fertile, shortly ligulate, white ; disk-fl. t^ , fertile, tube 

 short, limb campanulate 4-5-cleft. Involiuyi'e short ; bracts in few series, 

 lanceolate, margins acarious ; receptacle flat, naked. Anthei-hases obtuse or 2- 

 lobed. Style-arms of § flattened ; tips short, broad, obtuse. Achenes com- 

 pressed, beaked, beak short in the disk, longer in the ray ; pappus of 3-5 

 caducous bristles or 0. 



1. R. verticillatum, Rdmo. mss.; Blume Bijd. 902: Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 39. Leptocoma racemosa, Less, in DC. Prodr. t. 280. Lavenia rigida, 

 Wall. Cat. 3215. Oarpesium racemosum. Wall. Cat. 3201, in part. Zollingeria 

 scandens, Sckidtz-Bip. in Flora, 1854, 275. 



Tbmpeeate Himalaya ; from Kashmir, alt. 5000 ft., to Sikkim, alt. 6000 and 

 Bhotan. Khasia Mts., alt, 6000 ft. Biema. — Disteib. Malay Isld., Japan. 



Stems 2-3 ft., branches very slender. Leaves 1-3 in., membranous, petioled, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, entire or coarsely toothed, narrowed into a Tery slender petiole. 

 Heads ^ in. diam., on short, rigid, stout, axillary often bracteate peduncles, often one 

 in every axil along the branches. 



17. I.AGZiN'OFZZORA, Cass. 



Scapigerous herbs. Heads small, solitary, heterogamous, rayed ; ray-fl. 5 , 

 1-3-seriate, fertile ; ligule white, long or short ; disk-fl. § , often sterile, tubular, 

 limb 5-cleft. Involuia-e short ; bracts sub- 2-seriate ; receptacle convex, naked. 

 Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of ^ narrow, flattened, tips triangular 

 or lanceolate. Achenes of ray compressed, beaked, margins thickened ; of disk 

 similar, often narrower and sterile ; pappus 0. — Distrib. Species 11-12 Aus- 

 tralian, 1 Asiatic, 1 S. American, 1 Sandwich Isld. 



1. Ii. Billardieri, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. v. 307; pubescent, leaves radical 

 or subradical oblong or obovate sinuate-toothed pubescent, scape slender. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 173. L. sundana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 32. L. Harveyi, Thwaites 

 Enum. 162. 



Khasia Mts., alt. 5-6000 ft. Ceylon, central province, alt. 4-6000 ft. — Disteib. 

 Malay Islds. China. Australia. 



Eootstocjc with thick fibres. Leaves 1-2 in. Scape 3-4 in., slender. Heads J in. 

 diam. ; invol. bracts linear ; ligules white, short. Achenes obovoid oblong, beak 

 glandular. — I follow Bentham and Clarke in reducing the Indian species to the Aus- 

 tralian, though differing greatly in the size of the head. 



IS. BRACHYCOnXX:, Cass. 



Branched or scapigerous herbs, with the character of Lagenophora, except 

 that the ray-flowers are 1-seriate, and that there is sometimes a scanty paleaceous 

 pappus. — DisiElB. About 40 species, Australian and New Zealand, with one S. 

 African. 



1. S7. assamica, Clarke Comp. Ind. 40; glabrous, almost shrubby, 

 branches sharply angled, leaves alternate sessile linear dilated upwards, heads 

 small terminal solitaiy, invol. bracts elliptic or ovate margins scarious, achenes 

 terete striate narrowed above and beaked, pappus 0. ? Synanthera, Wall. Cat. 

 7134. ? Epaltes linearifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 461. Ethulia divaricata, Wall. Cat. 

 98, ex DC. 



Upper Assam ; in the Dihong river, on stones. 



