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Spec. Cuar. Perennial: stem herbaceous: whole -plant cover 
ed with small, recurved prickles: stipules broad, leafy : leaves 3-5- 
lobed, long-petioled: pedicels shorter than the petioles : involucel 
leaves linear, incurved, furnished on their back about the middle 
with a leafy appendage: flowers Jarge, pale-sulphur, with a dark- 
purple eye. 
Peninsula, Flowering nearly all the year. 
(4) H. rurcatus. ( Roxb.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 48.—Roxb. fl. Ind. IfI.-p. 204.— 
Dec. prod. I. p. 449. 
Srec. Cuar. Under-shrub : stem erect, softly pubescent: whole 
plant covered with numerous, recurved prickles: stipules oblong 
or lanceolate: leaves 3~5-lobed, very pubescent beneath, and 
prickly on the nerves: involucel leaves about 10, incurved, with 
a leafy appendage at the back: flowers large, dark-sulphur, with a 
dark-purple eye. 
Interior of Bengal. Southern Provinces. Flowering nearly all 
the year. 
(5) H. sipoiss. (W. & A.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 49. 
Sprc. Cuar. Suffrutescent: without prickles: leaves oblong, 
crenated, somewhat tomentose: peduncles 3-4-flowered, leafless : 
involucel leaves linear-lanceolate : fruit globose: seeds tubercled, 
glabrous. 
Madura. 
(6) H. wunarirouius. ( Willd.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 49.—Dec. prod. I. p. 451. 
Syn. HH. pruriens, Roxd. fl. Ind. III. p. 196. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 6. - 
Spec. Cuar. Biennial: stems herbaceous, hairy: leaves round- 
ish-cordate, acutely 3-5-lobed, serrated, hairy on hoth sides: pedi- 
cels very short, very hairy, thickened below the flower, axillary or 
racemose by the absence of leaves: involucel leaves about 10, linear: 
segments of the calyx linear: corolla tubular below, much longer 
than the calyx: capsule nearly globose: seeds glabrous, slightly 
tubercled: flowers large, sulphur with a dark-purple eye. 
Dindigul. Flowering nearly all the year. 
(7) H. nosa-stnensts. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 49.—Dec. prod. I. p. 448.—Roxb. 
fl. Ind. ITI. p. 194. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. II. t. 16.—Rumph. Amb. IV, t. S.— 
Bot. Mag. V. t. 158.—Bot, Reg. XXI. t. 1826, 
