Ticoa.] LXXTiii. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) ^^7 



46. VICOA, Cass. 



Aimiial or perennial, glabrous or hairy herbs. Leaves alternate, entire or 

 toothed, upper amplexicaul. Meads terminal, solitary or on leaf-opposed 

 peduncles, woolly, radiate) and heterogamous or disciform and homogamous ; 

 Tay fl. 5 , 1-2-seriate, fertile, ligule narrow, 2-3-toothed ; disk-fl. 5 r fertile, 

 slender, limb hardly dilated 5-toothed'., Involua'e campanulate; bracts oo- 

 -seriate, narrow, inner scarious, outer shorter margins scarious ; receptacle flat or 

 -subconvex, naked. Anther'-bases sagittate, tails slender. Style-arms of § 

 flattened, broader upwards, obtuse or truncate. Aehenes small, hardly ribbed, 

 tip rounded. Pappusrhairs 5-oo , 1-seriate, smooth scabrid or bearded. — Disieib. 

 'Species 6 ; Tropical and Western Asia, and Afiica. 



This genus had best be nuited to Inula. 



1. V. aurlculata, Cass. ; DC. Prodr. v. 474 ; annual, slendlei'^ pubescent 

 and viscid or glabrate, leaves sessile lanceofete or oblong-lanceolate from a 

 broad auricled base acuminate entire or serrulate often scabrid above, invol. 

 "bracts scarcely recurved, V. indica,, DC in Wight Cantrib. 10 ; Prodr. I. c. ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1148 ; Clarke Comp. Ind., 127 ; JMz. 8r Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 12a V. 

 aurita, DC, Ln. ^7i. V. appendiculata, DC. I. c. ;, Clarke I.e. Inula indica, 

 Zinn. ; £vrm, Fl. Ze^l. 124, t. 65, f. 2 ;, Wall. Cat. 2964. L auriculata and 

 appendiculata, Wall. Cat. 2966, 2966. Doronicum calcaratum, RoxK Hart. 

 JBeng. 61 ; M. Ind. iii. 434 



Throughout the drier parts of India, from the Punjab to Birma and southwards, 

 ascending the Western Himalaya to 40CfO ft. and to 5000 in Ceylon (not found in the 

 Eastern Peninsula). 



A usually much branched slender rigid leafy herb, 1-3 ft., with spreading branches. 

 Leaves in largest specimens 7 by 1^ in., more commonly 1-2 in. ; hase always rounded ; 

 auricles rounded or hastate, sometimes gashed. Heads J-f in., on long slender spread- 

 ing peduncles ; iuvol. bracts very slender ;. ligules revolute, as long as the involucre. 

 Aehenes ^ in., pale, terete, sparsely hairy; pappus hairs few, slender, free at the 



2. V. cemvLa,,Dcdz. inDalz. ^ Cribs. Bomh.Fl. 126; anmial, slender, sparsely 

 pubescent, lower leaves shortly petioled elliptic acuminate serrate, upper sessile 

 contracted to a small auricled base,, invoL bracts squarroae tips ffliform re- 

 curved. 



Hills of the Concan and Westebn Deccan ; Belgaum, &c , Lam, Stocks, &c. 



Very similar in habit to V. auriculata, but differing in the leaves and invol. bracts.. 

 The aehenes and pappus are very much alike, and I do not find the difference in the 

 pappus of the ray flowers which Salzell describes. 



3. V. vestita, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 335; woolly and softly hairy, leaves 

 ■oblong or linear-oblong obtuse or subacute from a broad auricled base serrate, 

 invol. bracts squarrose tips filiform recurved, aehenes subsUky, Inula vestita. 



Wall. Cat. 2962; DC. Prodr. v. 470; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 199; Clarke Crnnp. 

 Ind. 119. Pentanema radiatum, Boiss. Diagn. ser. 2. iii. 14, 



Drier parts of India from Marei, Fleming, and the Pijnjab, to SeiND, Patna, 

 :Behae, and the Concan ; Sikxim, Trmtler ; Westebn Tibet, at Iskardo, Thomson. — 

 Dbteib. AfFghanietan. 



A shorter stouter plant than the two preceding species, with more numerous nar- 

 rower ligules, but similar aehenes and pappus. 



47. FTTXiXCARXA, Gaertn. 



Annual or perennial, usually woolly or villous herbs. Leaves alternate, 

 49essile, often amplesdcaiil. Sends solitary, radiate and heterogamous, or disci- 



