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Gen. Char. Capitula heterogamows : florets all tubular, mar-i 

 ginal ones many-series, female, disk ones hermaphrodite ; acbaenia 

 somewhat taperiiig, subpappilose : pappus 1 -series, scarcely rough. 

 T-Herbaceous or suffruticpse, generally woolly or tomentose plants : 

 capitula often disposed in glonierules, terminal er axillary, fascicled, 

 corymbose or spicate : involucres white, re^, purple or yellow. 



(1) G. KAMIOERUM. (DeC.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 222. 



Spec. Char. Stem sufFruticose at the base, branched, sub-gla- 

 hrous : branches white-tomentose : leaves linear, sessile, quite entire, 

 white-tomentose on both sides : capitula 8-10, collected into a sub- 

 globose glomerule : involucral scales yellowish, scariose, obloog, 

 sub-acute. 



North-West Provinces. 



(2) G. MULTicEPS. {Wall.) 

 Ident, Dec. prod. VI. p. 228.— Wall. Cat. No. 8949. 



Spec. Char. Woolly : stems many, herbaceous, ascending, 

 ^rect, simple : loWer leaves lanceolate, acute, flat : cauline ones 

 8es.sile, scarcely sub-decurrent, uppermost ones linear : c»pitula ter- 

 minal, densely glomerate : involucral scales oblong, elliptic, obtuse, 



Silhet. 



(3) G. HYPOLEucuM. (Dee.) 



■Ident. Dec prod. VI. p. 222.— Wight's Contrib. p. 21. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. %. 1114. 



Spec. Char. Stem erect, terete, scabrous below, above branch- 

 ed, tomentose : leaves linea^ acuminate, subrevolute at the margin, 

 slightly scabrous above, below white-tomentose with the middre 

 nerve a Uttle scabrous, half-stem-clasping at the adnate bbse, sub- 

 decurrent n capitula congested at the tops of the branches, subses- 

 sile : glomerules corymbosiely pat)ic1ed : involucral scales yellow, 

 scariose, oval-oblong, somewhat obttiSe, a little longer than the 

 ^isk. 



Neilgherries. 



(4) G. HuRDWARicuM. (Wall.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 231.— Wall. Oat. No. 2951. 



Spec. Char. Woolly, very small : stem erect, bifid : leaves ob- 

 long, attenuated at the base, obtuse, mucronate, scattered on the 

 stem, aggregated round the glomerules : capitula ctensely clustered in 

 globose glomerules at tbe bifurcation and tops of the branches : in- 

 volucral scales woolly outside at the base, otherwise scariose, quite 

 glabrous, brownish, acuminated. 



Hurdwar. 



