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(1) M. HEMisPH^RicA. (Bec^) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 140. 



Syn. Artemisia hemisphaeric^, Roxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 432.-9 

 Cotula hemisphserica, Wall. Cat. N^o. 3236. 



Engrav. Deless. Ic. Sel. 4. t. 50. 



Spec. Char. Annwal, many-stemmed, branched, erect, villous 

 at the tops of the branches : lobes of the leaves linear, acutely mu- 

 pronate : capitula solitary, somewhat convex : flowers small, yellow, 



Silhet. B.engal, in dry rice-fields, flowering in Fehruary and 

 March. 



GENUS Lin. HELIOHRYSUM. 

 Syn. Pol. .*$uperfli«a> Sex-. .Syat: 



Beriv. From Helios, the sun, and Chrysos, gold ; in allusion to, 

 the brilliant flowers. 



Gen. Char. Capitula som,etimes homogamaus : florets ^11 her-, 

 maphrodite, 5-;toothed, sometimes heteroganwu^, ipargin^l florets, 

 pften very few, 1 -series, female : achsenia beakless, sessile, with a 

 terminal areola: pappus 1 -series qf roughish bristles.— Herbs or. 

 shrubs with alternate leaves : involucrum imbricated : scales sca- 

 riose, interior ones connivent or radiant : receptacle flat, naked^ 

 areolate or firabrilliferous : involucres white purple or yelh>w ^ 

 (foroUa yellow or purple, 



(1) H. BUDDLEOIDES. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 201.— Wight's Contrib. p. 20. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1103.— Spicil. II. t. 111. 



SpejB. Char. Stem suffiruticose, erect, branched, woolly, espe-. 

 ^ially at the apex : leaves sessile, oval-lanceolate, acuminated, 7-9-i 

 nerved, glabrous above, hoary-tomentose below, quite entire: co- 

 rymb many-headed, composite at the tops of the stem and branches : 

 capitula ovate, clustered :, involucral scales oval, obtuse, somevirhat 

 ^qual, a little longer than the disk : flowers yellow. 



Neilgherries. 



GENUS LIV. GNAPHALIUM. 



Syn. Pol. Superflun. Sex;: Syit.- 



Deriv. From Gnaphalon, soft down; alluding to the voolly 

 gpyering of the plants. 



