^ev^cio.J Lxxviii. coMPOSTTJi. (J. D. Hooker.) 345 



toothed, heads |-1 in. diam. many-fld. turbinate long-peduncled bracteolate, 

 inTol. bracts 10-16 l in. long linear-oblong acuminate hispid, ligules 8-10 very 

 broad, achenes linear scabrid equalling toe red pappus. Doronicum Lessingi- 

 Acum, Wiffht 8r Am. in Am. Puffill. 106 ; DC. Prodi: vi. 322 ; Wigfit Ic. t. 

 1126. Madaractis seabra, DC. I. c. 4.39. 



NjLGHEEBY Mts. ; alt. 6-8000 ft., Wight, &c. 



Closely allied to 8. polyoephalus and as coarse, always hispid, with more numerous 

 more reniforHi leaves which are very deeply toothed. 



** Leaves not white and cottony beneath, pinnatifid. 



24. S. ludens, Clarke Comp. Ind. 199 ; herbaceous, hirsute puberulous 

 scaberulous or glabrate, stem strict or slender, leaves polymorphous ample or 

 more often lyrate-pinnatifid with broadly auricled bases or petioles, terminal 

 lobe ovate or orbicular-ovate or -cordate lobulate and toothed lateral small 

 ,gashed or 0, heads ecalyculate irregularly corymbose on stout or slender ped- 

 uncles, invol. bracts 12-16 ^ in. long linear-oblong acuminate usually glabrous, 

 ligules 8-10 broadly oblong, achenes quite or nearly glabrous or hispid slender 

 equalling the dirty-white pappus. Doronicum Walkeri, Am. PugiU. 32 ; DC. 

 R-odr. vi. 322 ; Thwaites Enum. 167. 



The CoNCAif ; Bababoodan and Wattikely hills, alt. SOOO ft., Lcvw, &e. Getion ; 

 •central province, alt. 5-7000 ft,, Walker, &c. 



A most sportive plant ; some of the Concan specimens are very stout, a foot high 

 with a much branched stem as thick below as the little finger and leaves with the 

 terminal lobe 2^ in. diam. ; others have flexuous leafy unbranched stems with long 

 ;petioled leaves reduced to the terminal lobe, others have oblong leaves 4-5 by 1 in., 

 uniformly pinnatifid with oblong ascending toothed lobes. The Ceylon forms aie 

 often as stout, but more often slender, less branched and less leafy than the Concan 

 ■ones, with sometimes a very few small elliptic petioled toothed leaves J-1 in. long, 

 without auricled bases, and the stem produced into a Very slender forked scape bear- 

 ing 2-4 subcorymbose heads, on filiform peduncles. A very singular small apparently 

 prostrate Ceylon form, probably growing in water, has slender stems emitting long 

 roots, and rather recurved rhomboid petioled toothed leaves J-^ in. long, and single 

 •or but few heads. The achenes are rarely as described by Clarke viUously hairy ; I 

 can sometimes detect only minute hairs, at others short spreading ones, and at others 

 none at all ; they are about ^ in. long and contracted below the top. Clarke's name 

 is a very applicable one, but that of Walkeri should have been retained. 



26. S> Kobenackeri, Hook. f. ; glabrous puberulous or scabrid, stem 

 woody very stout and much branched below, branches short ascending herbaceous 

 above leafy, petiole not auricled, leaves small deeply pinnatifid segments few 

 short acute toothed or lobed margins recurved, heads long-peduncled bracteo- 

 late, invol. bracts 10-16 J in. long lanceolate acuminate rigid glabrous or sca- 

 Ijrid, ligules 6-10, achenes slender more or less scabrid nearly equalling the red 

 pg,ppus. S. pinnatifidus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 198. Madaractis pinnatiflda, DC. 

 Trodr. vi. 489. Doronicum Candolleanum, Wight 8f Am. in Arn. PugiU. 108 ; 

 DC. Prodr. vi. 322 ; Wight Ic. t 1127, D. rupestre, Wight Ic. t. 1128. 



NiLGHBEEY and Shevaghebrt Mts. ; alt. 7-8000 ft., Wight, &c., in pastures. 

 Eoot and stout branched stock as thick as the little finger ; branches rather 

 : slender very many 3-6 in. Leaves \-l in. ; petiole short, slender or 0. Achenes 

 ^ in. ; pappus hairs all long or with a few short ones. 



26. S. tenuifolius, Bwm. Fl. Ind. t. 60, f. 4 ; annual, slender, herba- 

 ceous, glabrous, much branched, leaves sessile pinnatifid or 6ub-2-piimatjfid, 

 lobes very slender spreading obtuse, heads few long-peduncled ebracteolate in 

 -divaricating corymbs, invol. bracts 10-12 ^ in. long dbovate'oblong acute mem- 

 teauoijis glabrous, ligules 6-10, achenes broader upwards scabrid equalling the 



