St 



Spec. Char. Suffruticose, erect : branchlets and younger leaVei^ 

 sonAew^kat villous below. : stem-leaves stipellately cut at the basej 

 lanceolate-cuileate, acutely 3-cleft at the apex : racemes very 

 straight, subsecuAd^ arranged ih a panicle : capitula somewhat 

 drooping, pedicelledi, small, globose : involucral scales ovate, mar-, 

 'jginate ; inner ones membranaceous at the margin. 



Pundua, Silhet. 



(i) A. PARvipi:.oBA. {'Roxh.) 



idefit. :6,oxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 420. — Dec. prod. VL p. JOO. 



Spec. ChAr. Stem erectj simple, panieled : branches of the 

 panicle divaritcate: leaves Villosely tomehtoSe below, lower ones 

 cuneate, 3-7- toothed at the apex, cauline ones sitipellately cut at 

 the base, lanceolate, quite entire : capitilla racemose, panieled, gio« 

 hose, minute : involucral scales ovate, glabrous, scariose at th& 

 sides : flowers small,, green. 



Khasia mountains, flowering in May. 



(3) A. OR^iDA. (Wall.) 



Ideiit. Wall. Cat. No. 404.— Dec. prod. VI. p. 114. 



Syn. A. vulgaris; Burm. jl. Ind. p. 17?. 



Ungrdv. Rheede Mai. X. t. 45. 



Spec. Char. Suffruticose, erect : leaves wHite-tomentose below, 

 ^innatifid, upper ones trifid, uppermost and branched ones undivid- 

 edj and with the lobes oblprig, obtuse^ mucronate : lobes of the 

 lower ones somewhat crenated : ciapitula spidattfly panieled; oblong : 

 panicle leafy; patent : younger racemes nodding : outer scales of 

 the younger pubescent iiivoltiere leafy, acute; of the inner ones sfca- 

 riosC, obtuse : flowers small, greenish- white. 



Peninsula; flowering in February-. 



(4) A. RoYtEANA. (Dee.) 



Ident. bee. prod. VL p. llS. 



Spec Char. Herbaceous, Veiy Straight; teiitirely glabroiis : 

 cauUne leaves pitlnati-partite frOin the base, 3-4 paiif Willi an odd 

 one :- lobes bf-oad-linear, actitej qftite eiriire : branches of th6 panicle 

 'erect : capitula racemose, secund, somewhat spreading aiid droop- 

 ing, sub-globose : inVoIucrai scdes ovately sUbrbtund, scariose at 

 the margin. 



North-West Provinces. 



(5) A. CAfeNIPOLIA. {Wall.') 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 409.— Dec, prod. VI. p. 119.— RoxbJ 

 fior. Ind. III. p. 42^. S 



