41 



'dboVate or oval, 'cdrdately Iialf-stem-clasping, toothed, subdecur* 

 rent : peduxicles rising from the upper axils, longer than the leafj 

 Clearing p'edicelled heads of flowers and arranged in a short collected 

 panicle : involucral scales oblong-linear, acute, a little shorter than 

 ^e disk : style scarcely exserted : niale floWers 5. 



Mysore. 



(2) P. Indica. (Less.J 



Ident. i)ec. prod. V. p. 451.' — Less, in Linnea. 1831. p. 150. 



Syn. Baccharis Indica, Linn, Sp. — Conyza Indica, Blume.-^^ 

 XX, corymbosa, Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 426. 



Engrdv. ' Wight's 111. II. t. 131. ' 



Spec Char. Stem shrubby, tapering, corymbose, above ramous, 

 glabrous below: bra^ehlets, pedicels and y6ung leaves minutely 

 'covered with dusty pubescence : leaves obovate, short-petioled', 'dis.' 

 tantly and sharply serrated : corymbs terminating the branches ; 

 crater scales of the involiicrfe ovate, downy at the back, inner ones 

 linear, glabrous : anthers shortly tiaudate : flowers pale rose. ' 



On the banks ot the Ganges, tl/hittagong. Flowering in ttia 

 cold season. 



(3) *P. Wallichiana. (J)et.) 



ident. Dec. proA. V. p. 45 i. 



Syn. Conyza sessilifolia. Wall. Cat. No. 3029. • 



Spec. Char. Stem somewhat shrubby, ramous : leaves and 

 ^eduncks scabrous with very ^hort powdery pubescence : leives 

 oval or obovate, acute or obtuse-serrulate, or quite entire, sessile ; 

 'cbryrabs terminal, trichotomous : heads of flowers shortly pedicelled, 

 bval-oblong : involucral scales lanceolate, acute, the length of the 

 flowers : female flowers truncated : style bifid : anthers very shortly 

 caudate at the base. 



Sreenaghur. 



GENUS XXyi. EPALTES, 

 Syn. Pol. Superflua. Sex: Systi 



■ Deriv. !^rom Epdlthe's, healing, alluding to its medicinal qualitied. 



Gen. Char. Capitula heterogamous : florets of the circumfer- 

 ence man3'-series, female, of the disk sterile: anthers included { 

 Styles of "the disk scarcely eSsefted, undivided : achaenium of the 

 ray obovate, subangled, glabrous : pap[^us none. — Ramous shrubs 5 

 leaves alternate, decurrent : peduncles opposite the leaves : invo-a 

 lucre two, or several series^ imbricated : receptacle naked, convex^ 



