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Spec. Char. Stem pubescent at the apex: leaVes lialf-sleml 

 teliisping, siibcordate or ovate-lanceolate, remotely serrated, rougfaish ; 

 cxterioT sisales of the involucre broadly-ovate, leafy : flowers large^ 

 bri^t yellow. 



Lower Beng^. Dec6an. Mysore. Commonly cultivated fqjj 

 the sak6 vi its qQ^ flowering in ttie cold season. 



GENUS XL. :BlI)ENg. 

 'Sfik. Pol. Fruati'aHea. Sean Syei: 



beriv. From Bis, twice^ and Dens^ a tooth, in allusion to thd 

 ^eeds. 



Gen. Char, ^apitula Neither homogaraotts, discoid or radiateii' 

 with thfe florets of the ray ligulate, neuter : achsenium surtnounte^ 

 by an aculeate beak, ending in 2-5 rigid bdstles. 



(i) B. ^pbiFLORA. (Ifinn.) 



Ident. bee. prod. V. p. 595. 

 Ertgi-av. ©ill. Elth. Lit t, 44. f. 52. 



Spec. Char. Stem ditihOtomousj hairy : leaves ovate or obl'on^ 

 i-2- toothed at both ends: eapitula sessile at the wings or tops of 

 tbe branches between the last pair of kaves, solitary, discoid : invo-* 

 faicre icylindiic : acfaaenium bearing 4 g.-was^ (2 long and 2 shoit.) 



Bengal. 



(2) fe. WALtiioHii. {Dee.) 



Idmt. iDec. prod. V. p. 598. 



Syn, B. Ghinensis, Wdll. C(t,i. No. 3189. — Wight's Conirib. p^ 

 19. — B. bipinnata, Roxb. flor: Ind, III. p. 411.-^Agrimohia Mo* 

 liiccana, Rumph. 



EngraV, Rumph. Amb. VI* t. 15. ft 2. 



BpECi Char. Smoothish or somewhat . pUb^rpus : lo^er leavef 

 pinnately divid^di upper ones ternately divided: segments ovate- 

 acuminate, cut abd serrated^ or toothy lateral ones obliquely atten- 

 uated at the base: heads of flewers tongipedtmcled, loosely corym- 

 bose : achaenium linear, angular^ striated^ glabrous^ d-awned at th6 

 apex. 



{ DeCCan. Bengal. JDindiguI hills, flowering nearly all th^ 

 year. . ; 



(8) B. DECOMPosiTA. (WaU.) 



tdeM. Walt. Cat. No. 298.-^Dec. prod. V. p. 603, 

 "'iSyn. Coieopsiis coiymbiiblia, Ham. ex Wall, 



