806 Lxxviii. COMPOSITE!. (J. D. Hooker.) ^WedeUa. 



67. Vrz:DEI.XA, Jcwg. 



ScaTsrid pulsescent or hirsute herbs or undershrubs. Leaves opposite. 

 Heads axillary or terminal, heterogamous, radiate, yellow ; ray-fl. ? , fertile, 

 ligule spreading entire or 2-toothe(i ; disk-fl. § , fertile or the central sterile, 

 tubular, limb elongate 5-toothed. Invol. bracts sub-2-seriate, outer 3-5 

 usually herbaceous or foliaceous, inner dry ; receptacle flat or convex, pales 

 enclosing the flowers. Anther-bases entire or subsagittate. Style^arms of ^ 

 with acute hniry tips. Achenes cuneate-oblong or obovoid, thick, smooth or 

 tubercled, laterally compressed or the outer triquetrous, tip rounded, margins 

 obtxise or thickened; pappus 0, or a toothed cup or ring, or of short scales, 

 with sometimes a few bristles. — Distkib. Species about 45, tropical and sub- 

 tropical. 



1. W. calendulacea, Less. ; DC. in Wi(jU Conti-tb. 17 ; Prodr. v. 539; 

 procumbent, strigillose or glabrate, leaves sub«essile lineai'-oblong or oblanceolate 

 acute or obtuse entire or sub-crenate scaberulous above 1^ rarely 3-nerved, he^ds 

 solitary on long slender axillary peduncles, outer invol. bracts large oblong 

 obtuse herbaceous much longer than the disk-fl., achenes of the ray 3-quetrous 

 tip truncate. Wight Ic. t. 1107 ; Am. in Hook. Camp. Bot. Mag. i. 81, t. 5; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 136 ; Dalz. ^ Oibs. Somb. Fl. 129. W. bengalensis ?, Rich, 

 in Pers. Synops. ii. 490. Verbesina calendulacea, Linn. ; Po.vb. Fl. Ind. iii. 440 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 3205. Joegeria calendulacea, Spreng. Syst. iii. 590. — Burm. Fl. 

 Zeyl. 52, t. 22, f. 1. 



In wet places, Bbnqai,, Assam, Silhet, the Eastern and Western Peninsolas 

 and Cbylon. — Distrib. Malay Islds., China, Japan. 



Stem 6-18 in., rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous or seabrid. Leaves 1-3 in., 

 variable in breadth, hairs on both snfaces scattered, appressed, rigid, white. Heads 

 1-lJ in. diam ; peduncles 1-6 in., swollen below the turbinate involucre. 



2. W. urtlcaefolla, DC. in Wight Contrib. 18; Prodr. v. 539 var. /3 

 only ; erect, slender, hispid or seabrid, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate 

 3-nerved, heads 1-3 peduncled, invol. bracts ovate- lanceolate acuminate exceed- 

 ing the disk-fl., achenes elongate-cuneate S-quetrous tip broad truncate. Wight 

 Ic. t. 1106. Woollastonia biflora, Dalz. Sr Oibs. Bomb. Fl. 128, excl. syn. 

 Verbesina biflora. Wall. Cat. 3207 B., in part. 



Western Peninsttla ; on the G-hats from the Concan southwards. 



Stem and branches weak, pale, grooved. Leaves 3-5 in., petiole short or long, 

 slender. Heads f-1 in. diam. ; invol. bracts seabrid. Pappus usually 0, rarely of 

 1-2 bristles. 



3. W. biflora, DC. in Wight Contrib. 18 ; climbing, glabrous or scaberu- 

 lous, leaves petioled ovate acuminate serrate, heads 1-3 peduncled, invol. bracts 

 oblong or ovate-lanceolate often recurved equalling or exceeding the disk, 

 achenes shortly cuneate 3-4-angled rough tip broad truncate. W. scandens, 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 136, excl. syn. ? "W. biflora, Kurz in Joum. As. 8oc. 1877, 

 ii. 176. Woollastonia biflora and seabriuscula, DC. Prodr. v. 546, 547. W. 

 biflora, Wt. Ic. t. 1108. Verbesina biflora, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 3207 A., in part, 

 F. V. dichotoma. Wall. Cat. 3024 A., pai-tly F. H. Eclipta seabriuscula, 

 Wall. Cat. 3212, chiefly. Acmella biflora, Spreng. Syst. iii. 591. — MAeede Sort: 

 Mai. X. t. 40. 



Near the sea from Bbnoai, and Bombay to Cetlon and Singapore. — Disteib. 

 Tropical shores of Eastern Asia. 



Very like W. urticcefolia, but less hispid, climbing, and with much shorter broader 

 achenes. 



