79 



9sEC. Char. Climbing: leaves petioled, glabrous, triangular^ 

 aci^inated, unequally crenate oi^ dentate : petioles auricled at the 

 ^^ge, with a large kidney-shaped stipule:, panicles corymbose: 

 l^racts linear'subulate : pedicels divaricate : capitula many -flower- 

 ed :. involucre calyqulatp: ligulse 12-14, oblong-lanceolate^ obtuse :. 

 aqhaenia papillose^ 



Neilgherries, flowering in February and March, 

 (14) S. ANGUi,osus. (Wall.) 



Jdent. Dec. prod. VI. p. 369.— Wall. Cat. No. 3117. 



Syn. S. cappa, Don, prod. flor. Nep. p. 179. 



Spec. Char. Stem fruticose at the base? branches angled, and-, 

 with the peduncles involucres and leaves underneath hoary-tomen- 

 tose : leaves very shortly petioled, ovalrlaneeolate, acuminated at 

 both ends, serrated, slightly glabrous above : racemes axillary, 

 I/ranched, shorter than the leaf, ultimate onps collected into a pani« 

 cle : involucre oval, torulose, accompanied at the base with subulate. 

 Bracteoles: ligulae 10, 4-5 -nerved : achsenia glabrous. 



Pundua, SiUiet. 



(15) S. CANDICANS. (Wall.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 369.— Wight's Contrib. p. 22. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1134. 



Spec. Char. Climbing ; everywhere clothed with white tomen- 

 tum : branches striated : leaves petioled, auricled, with kidney- 

 shaped stipules^ cordate, acute, serrated, araneose above, pure white 

 Ijelow : panicle corymbose : bracts linear-subulate : pedicets diverg- 

 ing : involucre white, campauulate, sparingly bract^oled at the base : 

 Ijigulae 6, oblong, flat : ache^nia glabrous. 



Neilgherries. 



(16) S. STIPULATUS. (Wall.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 370.— Wall. Cat. No. 3122, 



Spec. Char. Stem climbing, angular, glabrous : petioles ara- 

 neose, appenditulate with a kidney-shaped stipule on both sides : 

 leaves cordate-acuminate, sharply toothed, slightly glabrous above,' 

 araneosely whitish below : corymbs few-headed : pedicles bracteo- 

 ][ate : involucre oblohg, sparingly calyculate at the base : ligulse 

 8-9, oblong-linear : achaenia glabrous. 



Coromandel Coast. * 



(17) S. WiGHTiANUs. (Dec.) 

 Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 370. — Wight's Contrib. p. 22, 



Sijn. Cacalia Wightiana, Wall. Cat, 

 ^figrav. Wight's Icon, t. 1136. 



