(5) S. Walkeri. {Am.) 



Am. pug. pi. Ind. Or. No. 103.-^Dec. prod. VI. p. 364, 



: Fnc/rav. Wight's Icon. t. 1131. 



Spec. Char. Climbing, araneose towards the extremities : 

 leaves exstipulate, petioled, heart-shaped, acute, callos'o-dentate, 

 glabrous, above flosculosely araneose : peduncles axillary, longer 

 than the leaves, corymbosely many-headed : capitula discoid, e-T-* 

 flowered ; involucral scales 8, with a few smaller ones at the base. 



Neilgherries. 



(6) S. Neilgherrianus. (Dec.) 



Jdent. Dec. prod. VI. p. 368. — Wight's Contrib. p. 23. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1132. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, suffruticose, roughly striated at the 

 base : leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, hirsutely tomentose beneath, 

 rough above, the lower ones attenuated at the base and half pinna- 

 tifid, the middle ones sessile, dentate, the upper auricately stem- 

 dasping, nearly entire : corymbs few-headed : pedicels bracteolate 

 at the apex: involucral scales linear, scarcely acute : ligulae 12-14j 

 'flat: achsenia glabrous. 



Neilgherries, in moist pastures near springs and watercouses. 



(7) S. i.avandul;efolius. (Wall.) 



. Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 368.— Wall. Oat. No. 3130.— Wight's 

 Contrib. p. 23. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1 133. 



Spec Char. Stem erect, hirsutely striated : leaves crowded, 

 oblong-linear, entire, revolute on the margin, hairy or hispid above, 

 tomentose beneath, the upper ones linear, distant : racemes corym- 

 bose, simple : peduncles bracteoled ; involucre 15-leaved,calycu- 

 late : flowers about 40 : ligulae 15, long, spreading, 4-nerved : 

 achsenia glabrous. 



Common in pastures on the Neilgherries, flowering in the cold 

 season. 



(8) S, ARANEOsus. (Dec.) 



■ Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 364. 



Syn. S. arachnoideus, Wall. Cat. No. 3136. 



Spec. Char. Stem climbing, araneose : leaves petioled, ex- 

 stipulate, heart-shaped, acuminated, distantly calloso-dentate, gla- 

 brous above, araneose below : panicles axillary, many-headed, and 

 'With the bracts araneose ; involucre 8-leaved, almost ecalyculate: 

 ligulse none ? achaenia glabrous. 



Silhet mountains, 



