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' Spec. Char. Stem glabrous, 4-siaea, branched : leaves bipio- 

 iiately-partite : segments lanceolate, cuneate at the base, mucronate, 

 '•scabrous on both sides : capitula long-peduncled, loosely subpahi- 



tled, discoid : involucre in two rows, afterwards reflexed : achaenia 

 '-elongated, 2-awned, some short, strigosely-scabrous, others glabrous 



at the base, somewhat strigose at the apex in the same head of 



flowers. 

 Monghyr. 



GENUS XLI. SCLEROCAHPUS. 

 Syn. Pol. Frustranea. Sex: Systt 



, Deriv, From Scleras, rough, and Karpos, fruit. 



' XJen. Char. Capitula many-flowered, heterogamous : florets of 

 the ray 3, neuter, small, irregularly ligulate, situated before the 

 inner scales of the involucre, of the disk 8-12, tubular, hermaphro- 

 dite, central ones often abortive : involucre double, outer scales 

 leafy, sub-petiolate, larger, inner ones three, less, distant : recep- 

 tacle small, convex, palese of the disk encircling the flowers and 

 shorter than them : corolla of the disk pubescent, 5-toothed, per- 

 sistent : anthers scarcely concrete, produced at the apex into a sub- 

 "ulate process : divisions of the style subulate, hispid : achsenia of 

 the ray abortive, very slender, of the disk obovate, smooth, bald, 

 closed in between the hardened somewhat curvedly folded pales^ 

 gaping within and contracted at the apex into a neck. 



(1) S. Africanus. {Jacq.') 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 566. — Dalz. Bomb. flor. p. 129. 



Engrav. Jacq. Ic. Rar. I. t. 176. 



Spec Char. Annual, erect : stepi rough : leaves broadly-ovate, 

 acutely serrated, petioled, alternate, 3-nerved: heads of flowers yel- 

 low, solitary, subsessile at the apex of the branchlets. 



North-West Provinces. High hills round Jooneer, (Bombay.) 

 S"lowering in July and August. 



GENUS XLH. SPILANTHES. 



Syn. Pol. JBqualis. Sex: Sysii 



'■ Deriv. From Spilos, a spot, and Anthos, a flower, alluding to 

 the original species having yellow flowers and a brown disk. 



Gen. Char. Capitula sometimes heterogamous : florets of the 

 ray ligulate, female, sometimes homogamous, all the florets her- 

 maphrodite, Jtubular, 4-5-toothed : branches of the style of the her- 

 maphrodite florets truncated, penicillate : achEenia of the disk com* 

 pressed, often ciliafe on the edges, 



