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^2) B. suBSEssiLB. (Dee.) 



tdent. Dec. prod. V. p. 368.— Wight's Contrib. p. 12. 



Syn. Leucoblepharis subsessilis, Am, in Mag, Bot. II. ;>. 422i 

 'f^Dalz. Bomb. fior. p. 123. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1093. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, glabrous, simple: leaves alternate, 

 subsessile, elliptic-obtuse, or attenuated at both ends, entire,. 3* 

 nerved: clusters of flowers globose, terminal, subsessile: bracts 

 leafy, longer than the flowers : seeds black, shining, plano-convex. 



Western Ghauts. Bellary in dry arid. soil. 



GEimS XVI. DICHROCBPHALA. 

 Syn. Pol. SuperlluM. Sex: Sytti 



Deriv. From Dicros, double, and Kephalos, a head, alluding to 

 the flowers. 



' Gek. Char. Capitula heterogamous : florets all tubular ; mar' 

 ginal ones, female, many series, 3-4-toothed ; central, hermaphro- 

 dite, or male, few, 4-toothed : achsenium compressed, beakless ; of 

 the females bald ; of the hermaphrodites crowned with 1-2 bristles. 

 —Annuals with alternate leaves and small globose capitula, 

 spreading involucre, and conical naked receptacles. 



■ (1) D. CHRYSANTHEMIFOLIA. (DccJ 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 372, — Wight's :f!ontrib. p. 11. 



Syn. Cotula chrysanthemifolia, Blume. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1095. — Spicii. II. t. 108. 



Spec. Char. Erect, branched, the whole plant rough from short 

 hairs : lower leaves lyrately pinnatifid, upper ones oblong, cordately 

 stem-clasping, coarsely serrated : peduncles much longer than the 

 capitula: flowers pink. 



Common on the Neilgherries, flowering nearly all the year. 

 (2) D. LAiiFOLiA. (Dec) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 3t2. — Wight's Contrib. p. 11. 



Syn. Cotula bicolor. Roth. — C. latifolia, Pers. — Grangea la* 

 tifolia. Lam.- — C. sinapifolia, Roxb.Jl. Ind. III. p. 347. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1096. — Lam. 111. t. 699. f. 1. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, sparingly pilose: leaves obovate, at< 

 tehuated into the petiole, coarsely toothed, often inciso-pinnatifld at 

 the base : flowering branches ramons, nearly naked : pedicels rigid, 

 divaricated, longer than the globose capitula : flowers yellowish* 

 white. 



Mysore. Neilgherries, Flowering newly all the year, 



