■Gynma.] Lxxviii. cgmposit^!. (J. D. Hooker.) 336 



7 in. long. G, nudiccmlie is a very small state of the plant. For remarks on the 

 Faeudo-chma of authors, see end of the genus Tinder G. hieracwidea. 



Vak. hispida, Thwaites Enum. 166 ; hispidly pubescent, stem simple or sparingly 

 branched leaify below, leaves obovate-lanoeolate sinuate-toothed lower narrowed into a 

 petiole, invol. bracts sparsely villous or glabrate, achenes glabrous. G. hispida, 

 Thwaites Emum. 166; Clarice Oomp. Ind. 172.— Ceylon^ central province, on damp 

 rooks, alt. 5-7000 ft., Thwaites. Stem 1-3 ft. Leaves 2-6 by "1-1^ in. ; heads 3-6, 

 long-peduncled ; bracteoles many ; flowers orange-yellow. — The only speeimieh I have 

 seen is very poor, and adds nothing to the character given by Thwaites, who observes 

 that it is very closely allied to G. aurantiaca, and that it is perhaps a form of G. 

 Mmiata (that is, of Pseudo-china). 



6. G. bicolor, DC. Prodr. vi. 299 ; glabrous, erect, stem branched, leaves 

 ■obovate or oblanceolate narrowed into a winged petiole toothed or runcinately 

 pinnatifid, lobes or teeth acute, cauline sessile deeply auricled, heads many, base 

 Tery narrow, peduncles with scattered filiform bracteoles, invol. bracts quite 

 glabrous, achenes (immature) gla;brous. Cacalia bicolor, Moxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 412 ; 

 ■Salish. Hort. Farad, t. 25 ; Bot. Reg. t. 110. 



Malacca, Griffith. — Distbib. Moluccas. 



Apparently shrubby at the base, 1-2 ft. high, rather slender, with a few scattered 

 hairs at the base of the leaves and stem. Leaves 2-4 in. long, bases not auricled, 

 teeth or lobes always recurved, entire or sparingly toothed. Heads f in. long ; base 

 ■of involucre very narrow. — I have seen no authentic specimen of G. bicolor. 



** iStem climMng. 



7. Ct. sarmentosa, DC. Frodr. -vi. 298 ; .glabrous except the puberulous 

 peduncles, climbing, leaves petioled or the uppermost sessile ovate elliptic or 

 lanceolate acute or acuminate subentire or sinuate-toothed, heads narrow, invol. 

 bracts glabrous, achenes glabrous. G. Finlaysoniana, DC. I.e. 299 j Deless. le. 

 ■Sel. iv. t. 66. CacaJia cylindriflora, reclinata and Finlaysotiiana, Wall. Cat. 

 3150, 3151, 3162. Sonchus volubilis, Rwmph. Herh. Amh. v. t. 103, f. 2. 



Maiacca and Penang, Widlich, &c. — DisiEtB. Siam, Java, Philippine Islands. 



Stem and branches loosely twining, petioles and pedicels slender. Leaves IJ— 2J 

 in. ; nerves obscure. Heads panicled ; bracteoles few, small ; invol. bracts ^ in. and 

 Tinder. Achenes ^ in., ribs very close and slender. 



DOTJBTFUI, AND EXCLUDED SFBCIBS. 



G. AUKiCDXATA, Cass. Opusc.Phyt. iii. 100; DC.Trodr.'n. 300. (Cacalia hieracioides) 

 Eoxb. Hmt. Beng. 61 ; Wall. Cat. 3154. Gynura Pseudo-china, Benth. M. Hongk. 299, 

 not cf DC, nor of Benth. Fl. Austral. G. aurioulata and glabrata, Clarice Comp. Ind, 

 172). — This is a Chinese plant, cultivated in Calcutta and th« Mauritius Bot. Grardens, 

 distinguishable (at once in the glabrous forms and after maceration in the pubescent 

 ones) from all Indian species by the fine elongated reticulation of the nerves of the 

 leaf. Whether it is Willdenow's Cacalia hieracioides is doubtful. Of Clarke's G. 

 auriculata, j3 puberula, and y vUlosa I know nothing. 



Gr. PURPUEASCENS, DC. Frodr. vi. 299 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 56 (Cacalia purpuras- 

 ■cens. Wall. Cat. 3157) ; this is founded on a plant cultivated in the Calcutta Gardens, 

 and said to have been introduced from Nipal ; it is not, however, in WaUich's Herba- 

 rium, and is, judging from the description, probably G. bicolor. 



77. ElffiXXiXA. Cass, 



Annual or perennial herbs, often glaucous, glabrous or hairy. Leaves, radical 

 crowded, petioled, entire toothed or lyrate-pinnatifid ; cauline lew, stem-clasping. 

 Heads long-peduncled, solitary or loosely corymbose, without bracteoles at the 

 base, homogamous, discoid, yellow or red ; fl. all § j fertile, tubular, limb elon- 

 gate 5-toothed. Involvere cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, free or cohering 



