18 



mJnal, compound : heads of flowers 5-S, flowers very nuinetotu>. 

 pozple. 



Common on the Western Ghauts. Mysore. Flowering id Febt 



ru«ry^ 



GEMUS XI. CALHSfFBPHUS. 

 Bjn. Pol^ SaperlluM. Sex-. Syii: 



Deriv, From KaUisif^Si prettiest, and Stephqs,. a prown. 



Gen. Char. Copiitiija many -flowered : of the ray Ijgnlate, fe- 

 male ; of %h^ disk tiibulari h<ermaphr^ite : aehaenium obavate, ooneih 

 form, eompjessed, rong-hish : pappns doable,, each oS l-'series ; ex- 

 terior «bort, paleaceously setaceous, cohering into, a crown : interior- 

 tong, fil^orm, roughs decidwins.— i-Ecect lamous herbaceous an,- 

 nuals : brancbevS with a. single eapitnlnm^ on the apex. : iffjvQlucre 3Ht 

 aeries : scales ciliate, obtuse, embraced by foliaceous bracts,, shorter- 

 than the involucre : receptacle slightly alveolate.. 



(1) C. WiGHTiANUs. {tke^y 



Jdent. Dec. prod. V. p. 275. 



Syn. Poloa Wightiana, Wight's €wttrik. p. 10; 



Engrav. Wijght'is Icon. t. 1089^ 



Spec. Char. Leaves sessile, oblong-Jinear, entire or somewhat 

 serrate, shortly muoronate ; branches leafy, compressed at the apex^ 

 minutely puberulous : outer scales of the involnere leafy, Nnear- 

 oblong, not ciliat^d^ scarcely, larger than the inner ones : flowera. 

 large, yellow. 



Dindigul. Common in the Deccan. 



{zy C. coNcoLOR. {Dalg.y 



Idmt. Dale, in Hook. Jour. Bot. II. p. 344. — Bomb. flor. p^ 

 123. 



Spec. Char. Small glaucous plant : branches aseendingi radi- 

 cal : leaves oblon^Qbo^e, tfiothed. tpw^4s the apex : leaves of 

 the stem linear-oblong, toothed or entire, g^andular-dotted, gla- 

 brous : outer scales of the involucre linear-obtuse, inner ones erect,. 

 fbliaeeoHs,^ glandular-dotted : peduncles tenninal, solitary, l-head- 

 ed : flowers yellow. 



In rocky ground neiur Malwan, flowering in September and 

 October. 



