brous, mnrked witli 10 prominent ribs : pappus I'-series, bristles 

 thick, rigid, densely barbellate. — Herbaceous, of sufFrntieose : leaves 

 alternate: involucre imbricated, often surrounded with folijiceoua 

 bwcts : receptacle flat, alveolate : flowers regular, 5-cleft> purplish. 



(1) D. RKTicuLATUM. (Dee.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 66.-^Wigbt's Contrib. p. 7. 

 Syn. Amphirephis Indica, Wall. Cat. No. 3956. — 'Less, in 



l,inn. 6. p. 686. 



^ EngraVi Wight's loon. t. 1080,— Spioil. II. t. 104. 



Spec. Char. Stem sufFruticose, erect, ramous, everywhere rough 

 with bristly hairs : leaves sessile, ovate, mucronate, and mucronately 

 sub-dentate ; rough above, densely white-tpm^ntose beneath : nerves 

 and veins scabrous, reticulated : peduncles few, axillary' and ter^ 

 minal : capitula closely embraced by numerous foliaceous bracts : 

 Hhiterior scales of the involucre acariose, glabrous, louger than the 

 bracteas : flowers purple. 



Banks of streams on the Neilgherries, flowering ^e^rly all tbi(» 

 'Jear. 



(2) D. MOELE. (Dec.) 



Ment. Deo. prod. V. p. 67. 



Syn. D. scabridum, var. and D. epilejum, var. Wight's Contrib, 

 p. 7.— Amphirephis mollijs, Wall. Cat. No. 3957. 



JEngrav. Rheede Mai. X. t. 63.— Wight's Ifcon. t. 1082. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, here and there brfstly- 

 scabrous, tomentose at the ape^: leaves attenuated into the petiole, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminated, coarsely and irregularly serrated^ 

 bristly-scabrous above or glabrous, white-tomentose below : pedun- 

 ' cles axillary, 1-headed : bracts foliaceous approximating the capitu- 

 lum, oblong, tomentose below : involucral scales chaTtaceo<'S$ario&«, 

 glabrous, subacute. 



Courtallum. Bombay. Southern Peninsula. 



(3) D. SiLHETENSE. (Pec,y 



Jdent. Deo- prod. V. p. 67. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1083. 



Spec. Char. .. Stem herbaceous, erectj ramous : leaves short'- 

 petioled, oblong-lanceolate, acuminated at both ends, remotely 

 bristly-serrated, above glandularly-scabrous, below along the nerves 

 scabrous : capitula terminal, usually solitary, subcorymbose : inte^ 

 yipr- -scales of the involucrum oblong, mucronate: exterior .ones 

 filiform, subulate, subpatuloas, with a few scattered on the pe- 

 duncle. 



gjlhet. Courtallum, 



