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bracts at the apex : involucre of 5-7 unequal Hnear-acute leaflets, 

 tubular : florets about 15, a half longer than the involucre : achaenia 

 Qylindric, mutic, striated, smooth. 



Inland Ghauts, of the Deccan. The achaenium has a strong bal« 

 s^mic odour. 



GENUS LXV. EOHINOPS. 

 S)yn. Pol. Segregata. Sex-. Syst: 



Deriv. From Echinops, a hedgehog ; alluding to the heads. oC 

 flowers. ' ' 



Gen. Char. Capitula numerous, aggregated on a naked globose 

 receptacle, the centre one opening first : corolla tubular, 5-cIeft : 

 anthers ecaudate : achaenia cylindrical, silky-villous : pappus short, 

 qrown-like, the hairs somevrhat fimbriated. — Erect prickly plants.: 

 glomernles sphagrical : capitula inserted on a circular horny areola : 

 partii)! involucre 3-series, the interior scales the longeist, linear, ac.ur 

 minated, carinate : flowers blue or white. 



(1) E, ECHiNATUs. (Roxb.') 



IdenU Rexb. fl. Ind, IJI. p. 447.-^Dec. prod. VI. p. 526.— «a 

 Wight's Contrib.. p. 24. 



Spec. Char. Erectt much branched: leaves pinnatifid, pubes- 

 cent and viscid above, faoary-toihentose beneath : divisions ovate- 

 lanceolate, waved,, smooth : heads of flowers terminal, solitary, glo- 

 bose, spinous ;. florets, pale lilac ; tube slender; divisions linear- 

 acute, revolute: pappus shorty brush-like ;' ovary very hairy.. 



Guzerat. Deccan. Mysore. Hyderabad, Mahableshwur. 

 Flowering in February and /March,. 



(2) E. CORNIGERUS, (Dec) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 525, 



Spec Char. Leaves araneose above, below and with the stem 

 hoary-toraentose, pinnati-partite : lobes broad-lanceolate, cut and 

 furnished with strong spinous teeth : bristles of the partial involiicre 

 almost exceeding the middle scales, inner scales two-shaped, sojne 

 short and shortly ciliated, others long, horn-shaped, glabrous, sub^ 

 convolute, lowest ones concrete into a tub^. ' ' ! ' ' 



^orth-West Provinces, 



GBinJS LXVI. APLOTAXIS. 

 S>11. Pol. Squalls. Sex: Si/st: 



Deriv. From Aploos, simple, and Taxis, row or series ; allud^ 

 ing to the pappus. 



