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attenuated into a long slender petiole : nerves beneath bristly : pe-. 

 dicels short, leafy at the base, closely beset towards the apex with, 

 minute subulate bracteoles : involucre 1 -series, calyculate : leaflets^ 

 linear, acuminate : ligulas 8, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, 4-neryed. 

 ' Shevagherry mountains, flowering in August and September. 



(8) D. TENUIFOtHJM. (R. W.J 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. III. 



Syn. Senecio tenuifolius, Burm. fl. Ini. — S. multifidus, Willi. 

 «— S. laciniosus, Am. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1 129. 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, erect or . ascending, branched, glai 

 brous': leaves pinnatifid or bipinnatifid ; divisions linear-acute, 

 Variously toothed or lobed, glabrous ; corymb few-headed : capitula 

 peduncled : leaflets of the involucre linear-lanceolate, acute : ligulae 

 febriut 8, broad-oval, obtuse, 4-nerved. 



Neilgherries, and widely distributed botb on, the subalpine plains 

 and mountains of Southern India. 



(9) D. TOMENTOSUM. (7J. W.^ 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. III. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1151. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, eiect, sub-tomentose, at. firsfe 

 simple, leafy, afterwards corymbosely branched : branchlets nearly 

 naked : leaves rough, lower ones elliptic, tapering to the base : up- 

 per ones sub-ovate-lanceolate, auricled and nearly stem-clasping, 

 coarsely and unequally dentate, roiigh and slightly araneose above, 

 densely whfte-tomentose beneath : corymb lax : peduncles bracteo- 

 late : ligulse about 14, sterile: disk florets numerous, 5-cleft: pap- 

 pus setaceous, hispid : achsenium ribbed, bairy : flowers yellow. 



North- Western slopes of the Neilgherries, flowering in September, 

 and October. 



(10) D, RETICULATUM. (2?. W.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. III. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1151. (B.) 



Spec. Char. Herbaceous, erect, branched, leaver somewhat 

 rbomboidal, coarsely and unecpially dentate, teeth mucronate, rough 

 with cobweb-like pubescence above, tonientose between the veins 

 beneath : capitula lax, corymbose on longish pedicels : bracts sub- 

 ulate : ligulae 10-12, sterile, throat hairy, pappus none : disk florets 

 numerous, tube contracted, throat dilated, campanulate ; pappu^ 

 jaleaeeous, hispid : achaeniura ribbed, conical, hairy. 



lannah district, Bombay. 



