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StiEC. Char. Aftnikal, winged: leaves sessile, decurteht, long* 

 <&bovate, bristly-serrated, downy and glutinous: heads of flowers 

 solitary, leaf-opposfed or terminal : peduncles' winged^ : flbwers rdse- 

 coloured or purple. 



Oniinou iri tihe Peniosttla in rice-fields, flowering nearly all the 

 year. The whole plant is remarkably fragrant. 



(2) S. MOLLIS. CRoxb.) 



Jdeta. Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 446.— Dec. prod. V. p. 369. 



St/n. S. hirtus, Barm. 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. X. t. 43. 



Spec. Char. Annual, winged : leaves lanceiilate, dercuiTttit, 

 serrate, villous: pwlurtdfeS' stidrtty wingfed : invoPucral scales; cinie- 

 atei smooth ; femate florets about fifteen, gibbous : flowers purplishi 



feniiiBuIa. Hindbstan. Bengal. Flowering itt the csld season'. 



GENtJS XVIII. OLIGOLEPIS. 

 Syi*. PM. 3r«eeiHari». S6x : Syat: 



Deriv. From Oligos, few, and Lepis, a scale. 



Gen. ChaK. Capittilk nUtherous; Iket^rogamous, about 5-fibwer- 

 ^d: flowers air tubular .' females fe*; aHout 4 ifl tfie ciitmnfenBiJre, 

 j^edicelled, 3-tootbed'; hermapbroditbis solitary, seSdle, 5>- toothed' : 

 style 2'i-cTeft iti the female-: acfaeemum beaklessi of the femafles 

 terete, hairy, of the disk obsoletely 4-^ded, glabrous : pappus none. 



(1) O, amaramtkoides. (R. W.J' 



Ident. Wight's Icow. vol. MI. 



Syn. Spheeranthus amaranthoides, Burm. Jtor. Ind. p. 186. — 

 Wight's Contribx p. 1*. — Dec. prodi.\. j>. 370. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1149. 



Spec. Char. Annual, glabrous : leaves: lanceolate,, quite entire. 

 or serrated, glabrous, shortly decurrent : capitula ovate-globose, 

 subsessile: peduncles. very sHor't, wingless: tracts vety much acu- 

 minated : involucre usually one scale to each flower, tbat of the- 

 lierm aphrodite mucH larger andiforminga common involucre to the 

 capitulum, those of tiie females linear-obtuse, mucronate or' truncat- 

 ed). folded round the flower and adhering to the pedicel. 



Rice fields near Neg^patatt, 



GENUS XIX. GR:AJSrGEA. 

 Syn> Vot. SuperAua. Seta Syfli 

 Deriih eafleflaftet Gi^t/gr, probaWy some friend' of Adansoa's, 



