346 LxxTiii. COMPOSITJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [/Sewecio. 



reddish or yellowish pappus. S. multifidus, Willd. Sp, PI. iii. 1986 ; DC 

 Frodr. vi. 366 ; Wall. Cat. 3135 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 198. S. laciniosus, Am^ 

 JhcffUl. Doromcum. tenuifolium, Wight Ic. t. 1129. 



Western Peninsuxa ; on the dry hills of the Western Ghats, from the Concan. 

 southwards. — Distrib. Java. 



A slender much branched annual, or like most annuals reduced to a single weedy 

 stem. Achenes ^ in. — ^This has more of the habit of sect. Jacoboea than the others 

 of this section. Wight suspects that this and 8. Hohenackeri are varieties of one- 

 species, but the achenes. and inyol. bracts are quite different, besides this being an 

 annual. 



27. S. Iiewrensls, Book.f. ; annual, dwarf, puberulous or scaberulouB,. 

 leafy, leaves sessile or shortly petioled base auricled lanceolate or oblong-lanceo- 

 late obtuse obtusely coarsely irregularly toothed or subpinnatifld membranous, 

 heads ebracteolate on capillary axillary and subcorymbose peduncles, invoL 

 bracts 8-10 ^ in. long narrowly oblong rather dilated upwards acuminate 

 glabrous, ligules 3, achenes broader upwards seabrid equalling the dirty-white 

 pappus. Doromcum hewrense. Dalz. in Dah. Sf Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 130. 



The Concan ; rocky places near Jooneer, common, Daleell. 



A remarkable little species, differing in habit from its allies, the heads with 

 capillary peduncles being as often axillary and solitary as corymbose, the invol. bracts 

 very few, and ligules (constantly according to Dalzell) only 3. Achenes, as in S. 

 tenuifoUtts, ^ in. long, slender ; pappus hairs all long and slender. 



*** Leaves more or less white with cottony tomentum beneath. 



28. S. Edg^ewortliii, ITook. f. ; herbaceous, stem leaves beneath and. 

 corymbs white with dense cottony pubescence, leaves petioled cordate or 

 rhomboid or ovate-lanceolate obtuse or acute irregularly toothed lobulate or 

 oreuate many-nerved glabrous or seabrid above margins more or less recurved, 

 petiole auricled, heads on short or long naked peduncles turbinate bracteolate 

 corymbose, invol. bracts ^| in. oblanceolate acuminate cottony, ligules 10-14, 

 achenes elongate turbinate seabrid about equalling the white pappus. S.. 

 tomentosus, Clarke Comp. Ind. 200. Madaractis lanuginosa, Edgew. %n Tram. 

 lAnn. Soc. xx. 76. Doronicum tomentosum, Wight in Calc. Jom-n. Nat, Hist. 

 vii. 155; let. 1151. 



Centrai India, Jacguemont ; rocks at Mandu on the Vindhya range, Edgeworth. 

 Canara ; Bababooden hills, Law, Dalzell, &o. Nilgeerry Mts. ; on the N.W. 

 slopes, Wight. 



The Canara and Nilgherry specimens are stout erect leafy with stiff grooved 

 stems from a stout woody perennial stock, and have shortly petioled angular stiff' 

 coriaceous leaves 1-1^ in. long, with seabrid upper surface and prominent nerves 

 beneath; the heads are very many-fld„ and the cottony bracts are dilated upwards- 

 with very broad membranous margins. Edgeworth's specimens, which are very 

 imperfect, are very slender, with naked shining stems, much more membranous leaves 

 with longer more slender petioles and smaller heads with much narrower invol. 

 bracts. Jacquemont's specimens have the habit of the Concan ones, but the narrow 

 invol. bracts of Edgewortn's, and the deeply cordate leaves are unlike either of the 

 others. The achenes in all are about ^ in., ribbed and seabrid ; pappus-hairs slender, 

 most of them subequal and long with a few intermixed much shorter ones. 



29. S> DalzelUl, Clarke Comp. Ind. 201; herbaceous, erect, much 

 branched, branches and leaves beneath more or leas cottony, leaves sessile 

 linear or lanceolate apiculate base contracted or dilated and auricled coriaceous 

 1-nerved margins recurved entire or rarely denticulate, heads bracteolate long- 

 peduncled in dichotomous corymbs, invol. bracts 10-12 ^ in. long oblanceolate 



