3 



%ery slender ; style simple, glabrous : flowers very slendier, palcr 

 Coloured. 



(lath^d by Dr; Wigbt, burthe exact locaKtyls MOt^en. 



( GENUS H. ADBNOON. 



Syn. Pol. JSqualia. Sex: SpHi ,. 



.' Csif. Chak. Capitula uiauy-flowered : involucre imbrifcatefl, 



■ fere^, scales cartilaginous, hirs\ite^ mucronate, S-'ne^ved, glandular; 



_ receptacle smooth, alveolate, fringed : corolla regnlai*, tubulose, limb 

 5-cleft, segments 'linear'acute and somewftai-5 times -sbbrter than 



I the tube: anthers somcTwluit exsei'ted : fils^ments short : style sur- 

 rounded, at the^base witlj a. cup-shaped glapd, the divisions subu- 



^ late, exserted :~ a'cheehium cylindric, truncated at the apex, glabroiiSi 

 Itlimrrowed, glindulat : papjius ftbne. ' ' 



(1). A. TndicpM. (toalz.) 

 IdenU Dalz. in Hook. Journ. Bot. II. S44.r-7Bpmb. flor. p.'12I. 



Spec. Char. Erect branched plant, l^- foot high : stem angu- 

 lar,' scabrous, hispid : leaves alternate, sessile, bi'oad-elliptic, acute 

 \t both ends, coarsely serrated,, leugb, glandular;: . 'panicles of flow- 

 '. ^s corymbose : flowers blue# 



Phoondr. Ghaut. Belgaum. Flowering in September. 

 ; CfflNUS III^ B^SOLIA-i 

 .Syn. Pol.^JBquaUs. - Sext SuHj 



Gen. Char..' Capitula many-flowered c ,achtenium!obp^<fiidal, 

 .4-sided!) 4-j:ibbed, glabrous, glandular,,! trunc^jted., at • the apex: 

 ' pappus minute, entire, fleshy, crown-like. — Erect ramous herbs : 

 • leaves alternate, pellucid-dotted : involucre teiiete, many series : 

 scales subfoliaceous : receptacle naked : corolla rose-coloured or 

 ^purple, 



i'- ...'■• (1) E. coNYzoiDEs. f Linn. J ' 



' '.Var. Indica, - 



/rfejii."' Ded,' prod. V. p. 12.— Linni Sji. p. I'lYt* 



Syn. E. ramosa, Roxb. fl, Ind. III. p. 413. • 



Engrav. Bot. Reg. 9. t. 695. 



I Spec. Cha^. ' Stem and branches nearly erect," about 2 feet Ta 

 'lieightj leaves alternate, subsessile, elliptic, serrated: peduncle;) 

 ''^tpposite the leaves,' aiiSliaiy or' terminal," each supporting 'manj^ 



