68 



(\) C. Nepaulense. {Less.) 



taeni. Dec. prod. VI. p. 222.— Wight's Contrib. p. 22. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1120.— Spicil. II. t. 112. 



Spec. Char. Stem hirsutely villous : leaves elliptic-lanceolate, 

 Acuminate, dentate, attenuated into the petiole : capitula somewha* 

 drooping, campamilate, interior scales of the invcilticre somewhat 

 acute. 



Odtacamund. 



(2) G. citiAtuM. (Wall.) 



Ident. Wall. Cat. No. 3214;— Dec. prod. VI. p. 281. 



Spec. Char. Slightly scabrous : lower leaves oval, long-atten- 

 liated at the base, dentate, upper ones distant, oblong, subsessile, 

 almost quite entire : capitula erect, campaBulate, ofuter scales of the 

 involucre ovate, erect, distinctly ciliated, inner ones membraiaaceous, 

 subacute. 



Travancore. 



GENUS LIX. GYNURA. 

 Syn. Pol. JEqualls. Sexi Syst; 



Deriv, From Gt/ne, female, and Ouros, tail ; alluding to the 

 appendage of the «tyle. 



Gen. Char. Capitula discoid, hemogamous : base of the tube 

 of the corolla homy, branches of the style produced into a long 

 hispid appendage, usually exserted: adiaenia striated, beakless: 

 pfippus many-series, filiform, scarcely barbellate. — Herbaceous or 

 shrubby plants; capitula corymbose : involucrum cylindrical, 1- 

 series, calyculate at the base with subulate bracts : receptacle flat, 

 alveolate : flowers white. 



(1) G. ANGULOSA. (Z)ec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 298, 



St/n. Cacalia angulosa, Wall. Cat. No. 31 52. 



Spec. Char, Glabrous : stem herb'aceous, erect, futrowed an3 

 angled, branched : leaves oval-oblong, serrated, attenuated at the 

 base, cordately somewhat half-stem-clasping: branches of the lax 



..panicle elongated and bearing 3-7< headed corymbs: involucre sub< 



,cylindric, equal to the flowers, 2-3 times longer than the subulate 



'bracteoles : flowers purplish, 



' Pundua, Silhet, 



