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trEN. CrtAR. Capitula mOnoicoiis : male involucre subglotjos^i 

 aiany-flowered, scales free, 1-series ; receptacle paleaceous : corolla 

 clavate, 5-lobed : filaments scarcely adnate to the corolla : antherfe 

 free: female^ 2-flo\vers-, enclosed withiii a 2-beaked prickly ihVolU- 

 cre : corolla filiform : stigraas 2, diverging : achjenium, one in each 

 cell of the afterwards hardened involucre. — Herbaceous plants with 

 Variously divided leaves : heads of flowers irregularly gIomefate> 

 sj)icate : males above, females below, 



(1) X. Indicum. (iJoasS.) 



ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 523. — ^Wight's Contrib. p. 17. 



St/'A. i. orientale, Linn.-^X. Ifldiqum, tfall. Cat. No. 291. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1104. 



Spec Char. Involucre fruit-bearing ; oval, pubestent between 

 the prickles and at the base of the beaks : beaks hooked at the 

 apex : flowers small, white. : 



Common on the road-sides in most parts of the country, flowering 

 in February and March. Decandolle remarks, " Genus inter com- 

 positas valde abnorme." It has been allotted by other Botanists 

 both to Ferhenaeeee and Cueurhitacece, 



GENUS XXXVI. MOONIA. 

 Syn. Poi. IVecesaarla. Sexi Systi 



D'iriv. Named after Mf . Moon, a Ceylon Botanist, author of a 

 taseful Catalogue of the Plants of that Island. 



(^£N. Char. Capitula monoieous ; florets of the ray 1-series, 

 female, ligulate, 3-cleft, of the disk, male : branches of the style of 

 the female linear, revolutfe ; style of the male included, simple, ot 

 slightly cleft at the apex : achaenium obovate, somewhat compress- 

 ed, entire, or shoi'tly bicornate at the apex. 



(1) M. Arnottiaka. 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. III. ' 



. Engfav. Wight's Icon. t. llOS.^Spicil. II. t. llO* 



Spec Char. Erect ramous shrub : leaves opposite. Unequally 

 pinnatiSd, the terminal lobe longer, deeply 3-cleft : pinnae lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, coarsely cut and serrated, glabrous : flowers of 'the 

 lay numerous : achaenium entire at the apex. 



Neilgherry and Pulhey hills. 



GENUS XXXVII. WEDELIA. 



' Syn. Pol. Superflua. Sex: Sysi: , 



Deriv. Named in honor of G, W. Wedel, a German Botanist, 



