4S 



• (2) I. EUPATORIOIDES. (Dec.^ 



Ideni. Deo. prod. V. p. 469. 



Sya. Conyza eupatorioides, Wall. Cat, No. 2993. 



Spec. Char. Stem fruticose : branches striated, rufous, velvety :: 

 leaves elliptic, acuminated^ attenuated at the base, short-petioled^. 

 zarely and minutely serrated, above sparingly scabrous, below with 

 vufottS' ashy pubescence : panicle thyrsoid, many-headed, composite : 

 lower branches axillary : involucral scales oiblong, somewhat hir- 

 sute : liguls few» somewhat longer than the involucre : achseniuiu. 

 villous. 



Silhet mountains. 



(3) I. ACUMINATA. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dee. prod. V. p. 471 . 



Spec. Char. Stem 'erect, branched, puberulous : cauline leavea- 

 quite entire, dilated at the base, somewhat auricled, cordately half- 

 8tem<clasping, lanceolate-acuminate at the apex : capitula solitary 

 at the tops of the branches : involucral scales linear, leafy, rathee 

 lax : achsenium glabrous. 



North- West Provinces. 



GENUS XXVm. VICOA. 



Syn. Pol. Superflua. Sex: Syst.-. 



pEX.:.CiiAK. Capitula heterogamous : florets of the ray 1 -series^ 

 narrow, ligulate,. of the disk tubular,. 5-toothed ; achaenium beak- 

 less : .pappus of the ray none, of the disk capillary, 1 -series. — 

 Erect ramous annuals with alternate aurieulately-sa^ttate sessile 

 leaves: is volucre imbricated ;. receptacle ebxacteolate. 



(1) V. Indica. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 474. — Wight's Contrib. p. 10. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1148. 



Spec Char. Leaves auricled at the base, lanceolate, acuminate^, 

 serrate or subentire, more or less pubenilous on both sides : ligulae- 

 twice as long as the disk ; flowers yellow. 



Common throughout the Peninsula, flowering nearly all the year. 

 (2) V. CBRNUA. i^Dalz.) 



I<ieHt. Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 126. 



Spec: Char. Leaves oblong-lanceolate : heads of flowers droops 

 ing, with 1-2 bristles as pappus to the ray flowers. 



Elevated parts of the Concans, flowering ifl Ocfobei;, 



