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Spec. Char. Herbaceous : lower leaves lyrate, upper lobes oS, 

 tbe leaves larger, obovate. 



Orange valley on the Neilgherries, flowering in July. 



(3) C. Lawii. (Dah.) 



Ident. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 124. 



Syn. C. lutea, Wight's Icon. vol. IIIv 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1150. 



Spec. Char. Leaves nearly all radical, minute, sub-pinnatifid^ 

 j>ubescent : stems slender, erect, dichotomously branched^ often with 

 a capitulum in the fork : flowers yellow. 



The Ghauts. Tannah district near Bombay. 



GENUS XXI. THESPIS. 



Syn. Pol. ZVeceasarla. Bex: Sytt: 



Deriv. The name alludes to Thespis, a hero in mythology, the- 

 father of fifty daughters. In these plants there are fifty female 

 florets. 



Gen. Char. Oapitula" heterogamous : marginal flowers many 

 series, females very slender ; style scarcely e^serted, central ones 

 few ; male with a short tube and campanulate limb : anthers includ- 

 ed: Bchaenium compressed, glabrous: pappus of 7-8 barbellate 

 bristles. — Erect ramous annuals : leaves alternate : peduncles axil- 

 lary and terminal : involucre of several series, shorter than the disk ; 

 receptacle naked, flat, punctulate : pappus at first white, afterwards., 

 reddish. 



(1) T. DIVARICATA. (DgC.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 375. 



Sgn. Cotula divaricata. Wall. Cat. No. 3238. 



Spec. Char. Stem much branched from the base : branches, 

 divaricate: peduncles shorter than the leaf: capitula small, sub- 

 corymbose : flowers yellow. 



Silhet. 



(2) T. ERECT A. (Dec J 

 Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 375. 

 Syn. Cotula sinapifolia, Wall. Cat. No. 3227. 



Spec Char. Stem with a simple base, straight, erect, corym- 

 bosely branche'd at the apex : branches obliquely erect : peduncles 

 longer than the leaf: flowers yellow. 



Silhet. 



