304 Lxxviii. COMPOSITJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) \_8iegeshecUfi, 



subacute. Achmes obovoid-oblong, not compressed, often incurved, obtuse^ 

 pappus 0. — DisTElB. Species 2, a cosmopolitan tropical and subtropical and a 

 Peruvian one. 



S. orlentalis, Linn.; Bam. Fl. Orimt. iii. 250; erect, pubescent with 

 crisped hairs, leaves triamgularrovate toothed or crenate, base incised truncate- 

 or ouneate, outer invol. bracts equalling or exceeding the inner, outer achene» 

 rough. DC. Prodi: v. 495 ; Wight Ic. t. 1103 ; Wcdl. Cat. 3182,; Dalz. Sr Gibs. 

 BonA.Fl. 127. S. glutinosa^ Wall. Cat. .3182. S. braohiata and orientalis?- 

 Moxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 4.32. Minyranthes heterophylla, Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp, 

 Nat. Misc. 1851, i. ISl. 



Throughout India, ascending to 5000 ft. in the Himalaya and oth«r mountains. — 

 DiSTRiB. — Cosmopolitan in warm climates. 



An annual, 1-3 ft., with spreading opposite lower branches. Leaves 1-4 in. long 

 and broad, long-petioled. 



53. ENKVDXIA, Lour. 



Glabrous or scaberulous marsh-herbs. Leaves opposite, sessile. Heads: 

 axillary, subsessile, unilateral or in alternate axils, heterogamous, subradiate ; 

 ray fl. ? , oo -seriate, fertile, ligule minute broad S-i-tootfied ; disk fl^ 5 » fertile, 

 or the inner sterile, tubular, limb campanulate 5-fld. Invol. bracts 4, foliaceous^ 

 in oppoate pairs, 2 outer larger ; receptacle convex or conic, pales enclosing th& 

 flowers tipped with glandular hairs. Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms 

 of 5 obtuse, tips hispid. Achenes oblong, enclosed in the rigid pales, outer 

 dorsaUy, inner sometimes laterally compressed ; pappus 0. — -DiaiBiB. Speeiea 

 about 6, tropical and subtropical. 



E. fluctuans, Lour. Fl. Coch. 511 ; pubescent or glabrous, glandular, 

 leaves sessile linear-oblong acute or obtuse entire or subcrenate, heads axUlary 

 and terminal sessile. BC. Prodr. v. 637. E. Heloncha, DC. I. e. Hingtsha 

 repens, Moxb. Hort. Beng. 62 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 448. Megera Helongcha, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 3196. Tetractis paludosa, Blume Bijd. 892. 



Eastern Bengal, Assam, and Sileet. — Disteib. Sumatra, Malay, China. 



Usually quite glabrous ; stems 1-2 ft., elongate, simple or divaricatingly branched,. 

 Tooting at the nodes. Leaves 1-3 in., variable in breadth, base .narrowed or truncate. 

 Heads ^ in. diam. 



64. ECI.IFTA, Unn. 



Strjgose or hirsute annuals. Leaves opposite. Heads small, axiUary or 

 terminal, peduncled, heterogamous, rayed; ray-fl. <f j sub-2-Beria*e, fertile or 

 sterile; l^ule small, entire or 2-toothed, white rarely yellow ; disk-fl. g, fertile, 

 tubular, limb 4^5-.fld. Invobuxire (broadly eampanidate ; bracts sub- S-seriate, 

 herbaceous, outer large and broad ; receptacle fl!at, or nearly hbo, pales «nclosing 

 several flowers, inner narrow or 0, Anther-bases obtuse, subentire. Style-arms 

 flattened, with short or triangular obtuse appendages. Achenes of ray narrow,, 

 triquetrous, often empty ; of the disk stouter, laterally subcompressed ; top 

 entire, toothed or 2-ari8tate. — Distrib. Species 3 or 4, an Australian, a S. 

 American and a cosmopolitan tropical weed. 



1. E. alba, Hassk. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 134 ; hirsute or strigiUose, leaves 

 sessile Unear or oblong-lanceolate subentire narrowed at both ends, peduncles 

 1-2 axillary short or long and slender, invoL-bracts ovate obtuse or acute about 

 equalling or exceeding the flowers. E. erecta, Lamik. 111. t. 687. E. erecta anS 

 alba, Ddz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 117. E. alba and marginata, Baiss. Fl. Oi-ient. 

 iii. 249. E. erecta and prostrata, Idnn. Mant. 266. Verbesina alba and pro- 



