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Spec. Char. Erect, quite glabrous : leaves tri-.pinnatisect : lobes 

 irit, linear-filiform : branches of the panicle patent, simple: capi- 

 tula globose, nodding, racemose as far as the branches : involucral 

 scales obovate, scariose : flowers small, greenish-yellow. 



Khasia mountains, flowering in Marcli and April. 



(6) A. PALLENs. {Dec.) 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 412.— Dec. prod. VI. p. 120. 



Syn. A. orientalis, Herh. Madr. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, canescent, erect, branched : lower 

 leaves sub-pinnatisect, upper ones pinna'tisect : lobes and floral 

 ones undivided, linear-cuneate, obtuse : capitula globose, sub-erect, 

 few, racemose, sub-panicled, long-pedicelled : bracteoles hooded, 

 leafy, exceeding the scariose elliptic scales. 



Peninsula. 



(7) A. cuNEiFotiA. {Dec.') 

 Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 126. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, simple, ashy, and covered 

 loosely with villous pubescence : lower leaves long, upper ones 

 short, cuneate, sub-petiolate, with a linear stipule at the base on 

 both sides, dilated and three-cleft or three-parted at the apex : la- 

 teral lobes acutely 3-toothed at the apex, middle one trifid with 

 smaller lobes acutely 3-toothed. 



North-West Provinces. 



GENUS L. MYRIOGYNE. 



Sjn. Pol. Superflua. Sex-. Sj/tt, 



Deriv. From Murios, a myriad, and Gyne, female ; alluding to 

 the numerous female florets. 



Gen. Char. Capitula heterogamous : marginal florets many- 

 series, female, tubular ; central ones few, hermaphrodite, 4-toothed, 

 with a short tube and campanulate limb : aohaenia angled, wingless, 

 without pappus.— Very ramous difiuse herbs: leaves alternate,' 

 obovate, dentate : capitula small, first terminal, afterwards lateral: 

 involucrum 2-series : receptacle naked, convex : flowers yellow. 



(1) M. MiNUTA. (Less.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 139.— Wight's Contrib. p. 20. 



Syn. Cotula minuta, Forsk.—G. minuta et cuneifolia, WiUd.-^ 

 Grangea mmuta et cuneifolia, Poir.~G. decumbens, Desf.—Ar- 

 temisia minima. Thumb, (not Linn.) 



r TTtt ^^""^"°«^' ^^'c- i- c— Artemisia sternutatoria, Roxb. fl. 

 ina. m. p. 423.— Cotula minima, Bhme.--C, sternutatoria, ^af^ 



