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€tEN. Char. • CapUula radiate,, heterogamous ; ray florets li!^ 

 sejries, ligulate, female or sterile by abortion ; disk herraapbrodite : : 

 aohaenia beakless,. oblong, turbinate, fiirrowed, of the ray bald, of ' 

 the disk pappose.: pe^ppus. setaceous,, several series.— Herbaceous . 

 plants, with solitary or several capitula ; involucrnm few series^, 

 scales linear : receptacle convexj ebracteolate : flowers -yellow.. 



Almost the only distinction between this genus, and Senecio con- 

 sists in the marginal florets, in this. having no pafipus^ in that being; 

 furnished. jW.«fcfe paj>j»U'S similar to. those of; the disk. (R, W. ia. 

 Calc. Journ.) 



(1) D. RoYLEi, (.Dec.) 



Jdent. Dec. prod. VI. p. 321. 



Speq. Chaji. Stem h^rbaqeous, erect, somewbat hispid with^ 

 spreading scattered bristles : upper leaves sessile, half-stemrclasp.- 

 ing, ovatC'lanceolate, denticulate, sparingly hispidulous : branches 

 few, elongated, somewhat naked, 1 -headed: involucre eealyculate, . 

 hispid, scales lanceolate-linear, acuminated, a little longer than the • 

 disk : achsenia of ^he ray glabrous, without pappus, of the disk. 

 , somewhat hispid, pappose, 



North-West Provinces.. 



(2) D. tiNiFOLiuM. (Bee) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. VI- p. 322. 

 Syn. Aster odontophyllus. Wall. Cat. No. 3285. 



Spec. Char. Quite glabrous: stem erect,, bcanched : leavea. 

 Bcsittered, linear, acute, l-nerved, slightly rigidj here and there 

 coarsely toothed : panicle corymbose, I?ix : pedicels bearing sca|><' 

 tered subulate bracteoles : involucral scales 15-20, somewhat in 

 one series shorter than the disk : achsenia quite glabrous : pappusk 

 cinnamon-red. 



Pundua, Silheti 



(3) D. WiGHTH. (BecJ 



Ident. Dgc. prod. VI. p. 322. 



Syn. Madaractis glabra, Dec. prod. VI. p. 440i 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1124. 



Spec Char. Glal)rous : stem erect, subsimple,. angularly strii- 

 ated at the base : leaves lanceolate, acute, coarsely-toothed, sub- 

 revolute at the margin, lowest ones attenuated at the base, upper 

 ones half-stem-clasping : corymb few-headed : pedicels brdcteolate 

 at the apex: involucral scales linear, subacute: ligulae 8-10, flat: 

 achsenia glabrous. 



Neilgherries, in pastures and near the banks of watercourses, 

 flowering towards the end of the rainy season. 



