'stle at the apices oi the branches and much btact^atecl : bracts ana 

 tiuter invoItKral scales ciliated at the base,, inner ones acuniinate«k 



Near Bombay. This approaches very near in its characters to 

 i). molle. 



GENUS YtL. ELEPHAJ^TOPUS. 



Srn. Pol. Segregata. Seie: Si/tt: 



■B^riVi . "Etom Elephas, an elephant, and Pom, a foot, alluding 

 to some of the leaves which Tesemble an eliephant's foot. 



Gen. Char. Capitula of several (3-5, usually 4) equal fibb- 

 ers, densely congested, into a glomerulus, enclosed by leaves s 

 acheenium slightl;^ cotuptessed, man^ ribbed, pilose : pappus 1-series, 

 some of the bristles dilated at the base.-r^Perennial pilpse herbs : 

 vrith alternate sessile leaves and terminal : glomerulus involucre coin- 

 pressed, scales in a 'double series, alternately Sat and <eond1tplicatie : 

 ifxikis Baked : corolla palmate^ Umb ^^deft, one of the fissures 

 deeper. 



ifl) E. scAiBER. (TAnn.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 86. — W^t's Contrib. p. 8.— -Roxb. 

 ft lad. III. p. 443> 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. X. t. 7.— Wight's Icon. t. 1086. 



Spec Char. Stem dichotomdUsly branched, strigtfse ; i-adiCal 

 leaves rough, crenated, wedge-shaped, loing-attenuated towards 

 the base ; stem leaves lanceolate : floral ones broadly cordate^ovate^ 

 apuminate, hoary : flowers purple. 



Common under the shade of trees in the Peninsula. Silhet> 

 Concims, Flowering in the cold season. 



GENUS Vm. AGERATUM. 

 Sjn. Pol. JEqualla. Sext iSyitt 



Heriv, I'rom A, not, and Gei-as, age, alluding to the constancy 

 of the colours. 



Gen. Char. Capitula many-flowBred : achsfeijium somewhat 5- 

 angled, attenuatetl at the base': pappus 5-10, free baleaceons 

 scales aristato-acuminate, or pectin^te-obti^se.'-'^ Annual <6rect herbs, 

 with opposite leaves: involucre imbricated: receptacle naked: 

 flowers blue or white. 



(1) A. coNTzoiDEs. {Linn.y 

 Var. corStfoUum. 

 lldent. Dec. prod. V. p. 108. — Wight's Contrib. p. 9, 

 St/n. A. c'ordifolium, Roxh. flor, Ind, III, p, 415, 

 Engrav, Hook, Exot, flor, t, ISi 



