Umilia.] lxxviii. compositji. (J. D. Hooker.) 337 



Thwaites describes the flowers as purple, but as he does not distJngtiish the folloViiig, 

 I have not taken that character into account. 



6. XS. Walkerl, Hook. f. ; erect, robust, quite glabrous, cauline leaves 

 many large-upper half deltoid or ovate sudetenly contracted into a broad linear 

 oblong lower half entire or sinuate-toothed, base deeply broadly auricled, heads 

 broad, invol. bracts shorter thian the flowers, style-arms dilated towards the 

 short conic tips, achenes scabrid. E. prenanthoidea, Thwaites Env/m. 167, in 

 part. 



Cetlon ; Central Province, Ramboddie and Newera EUia, Walief, Thibaites, &t6. 



This is a much larger plant than any of the preceding, with a stout polished often 

 flexuous leafy stem, and branches 2-3 ft. high, leathery leaves, and the heads and 

 invol. bracts broader ; the achenes too are much larger than in E. zeylanwa. 



78. VtOTOTSXA., BC. 



Fleshy glabrous undershrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate or lanceolate, quite 

 entire or crenulate. Heads large, long-peduncled, corymbose, bracteolate or not, 

 homogamous, discoid, yellow ; flowers ^ , all fertile, slender, limb elongate 5-fld. 

 Involucre cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther- 

 bases entire. Style-arms elongate ; tips short, ovate, thick, papfllose or hispid'. 

 Achenes long,, subterete, 10-striate; pappus hairs , copious, slendeP.^DisTBiB. 

 Species 4 or 5, all Indian. 



1. N. g^randiflora, DC. in Wight C(mtrib.2i; Prodr. vi. 442; branches 

 short very stout, leaves obovate or elliptic-lanceolate or suborbicular quite entire 

 very fleshy, heads |-1 in. long, achenes glabrous, pappus hairs very slender 

 terete. Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 61 ; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomh. Fl. 132 ; Clarhe Camp. 

 7«d. 176. N. corymbosa, Z)C. Z.c. ; Wight Io.\. ^%L N. erassissima, &AM&a- 

 Hip. in PI. Sohenach. n. 1027, not of DC. Oacalia grandiflora, Wall. Cat. 3147 ; 

 0. Eleinia, Herb. Madras. 



Hilly districts of the Western Peninsula ; from the Concan southwards. Ceylon ; 

 in the Batticaloa district. 



A small shrub, 2-3 ft. high, very fleshy. Leaves 3-5 by 1-3 in., subsessile' or 

 petioled. Mowerimg peduncles 6-12 in. long, stout, strict, naked; corymb of few or 

 many heads, which are J-1 in. long. Achenes f in. long. — I cannot distinguish JV. 

 corymbosa from grandiflora by any characters. 



2. XT. balsamica, Dalz. ^ Otbs. Bomb. Fl. 133 ; branches stort very 

 stout, leaves oblong ovate-oblong or oblanceolate quite entire, heads |-1 in. long, 

 achenes glabrous, pappus hairs stifi" flattened. Oacalia Kleinia, Orah. Cat. Bomb. 

 PI. 98, not of Sprengel. 



The CoNCAN and Deccan ; in the inland ghats rare, Graham, BaUell, &c. 



Very similar to N. grandiflora, but at once distinguishable by the pappus. Dalzell, 

 in the Bombay Flora, refers Graham's Cacalia Kleinia to N. grandiflora, but in "Wight's 

 Herbarium there is a specimen of balsa/mica from Graham with- the name attached to 

 it by himself. 



3. JX. VTalkeri, Clarke Camp. Ind. 176 ; branches long, leaves long- 

 petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate quite entire or crenulate or gland-serrulate, 

 heads J in. long in very large compound corymbs, achenes sparsely hairy, pappus 

 hairs very slender terete. Gynuxa Walkerl, Wight Ic. t. 1122. Senecio 

 Walkeii, Thwaites Mium. 167. S. nilagerensis, Schitlt^Bip. ' PI. Hohenack. n. 

 1353. 



NiLGHEEET Mts. ; in woods, alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight. Ceylon; Central Province, 

 alt. 7-8000 ft.. Walker, &c. 



Shrabby, 6-7 ft.; stems naked below, often 1 in. diam. Leaves 4-7 by 1-1 J in., 

 ■not so fleshy as in the preceding species ; petiole 1-2 in. Pedicels with usually many 

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