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GEmrs xn. erigeron. 



Syn. Pol. Superflun. Sex: Si/tti 



©er»v. From Er, spriDg, and Geron, an old man, alluding tat 

 ttte plants becoming old at the beginning of the season. 



Gen. Char. Capitula many-flowered, radiate : ligulae linear, 

 female, several series; disk tubular, either all hermaphrodite, br 

 vrith the exterior florets female : achsenium compressed, beakless : 

 pappus 1-series. — Herbaceous or suifruticose ; leases alternate : 

 capitula hemispherical : involucre 2-S-Beries : receptacle naked, 

 foviolately punctate: flowers of the ray white, blue, or purpla: 

 disk yellow. 



(1) E. LESCHKNAUI.Tir, (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 292. 



Spec. Char. TVhole plant hispid with hairs : stems herbaceous, 

 erect, striated : leaves sessile^ oblong-linear or ligalate, mucronate. 

 quite entire -. peduncles axillary, longer than the leaf, 1 -headed, 

 higher ones shorter, few-headed, subcorymbose : involucral scales 

 linear, shorter than the disk : acheenium villous. 



Neilgherries. 



(2) E. HispiBUM. (Dec.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 292. — Wight's Contrib. p. 9. 



Stfti. Aster Bengalensis, Heyne Herb. — E. hirsutum, Wallf 



Cat. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, branched, hispid : leaves oblong, here 

 and there coarsely toothed, subpuberulous, lower ones obtuse, at- 

 tenuated at the base, upper ones acute, dilated at the base, cordately 

 atem-clasping : capitula 1-2 at the apex of the branches : involu- 

 cral scales linear-acuminate : ligulae numerous, very narrow-linear, 

 elongated, in 1-2 rows : female flowers, in many rows, scarcely ligu« 

 late, central ones hermaphrodite, 5-toothed. 



Bengal. -Sandy places, cm the Coromandel Coast, 



(3) E. suBLYRATUse. {Roxb.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 292. — Wight's Contrib, p. 9. 



Syn. Conyza hirsuta , Wall. 



Spec. Char. Stem ascending, erect, softly hispid : leaves viU 

 lous on both sides, obovate, coarsely cut and toothed-, obtuse, mu- 

 cronate, lower ones attenuated at the base, cut, sublyrate, upper 

 ones cordately stem-clasping: corymb terminal, 7'-9-headed^ capi- 

 tula piedicelled : involucral scales linear-acuminate, somewhat g^> 

 brous. 



Negapataia and Tanjore, Rampore in Robilcund-. 



