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Spec. Char. Steiji erect, brajichecl,. furrowed and angled, naikei 

 ;tit the apex, and with the leaves glabrous or slightly scabrous : 

 leaves lanceolate, coarsely toothed, upper ones few, distant, linear, 

 "entire : flowers largish, purplish rose-coloured. 

 ' Peninsula. Guzerat. Flowering in February and March. 



GENUS LXVm. TRICHOLEPIS. 

 Syn. Pol. MfintMa. Sex: Systs 



Deriv, From Thrix, hair, and Lepis, a scale. 



Gen. Char. Capitula homogamous : corolla sub-regular, 5-fid; 

 acbaenia wjth a lateral areola crowned at the apex with a circular 

 inargiii : pappus setaceous, concrete at the base, pr paleaceous, notj 

 concrete, or wanting,— ^Herbaceous plants : capitula' ebracteolate i^ 

 involucre many-series, scales linear, setaceous, recurved at the 

 points : receptacle fimbrillrferous. 



(1) T. ELONGATA. {Dee.} 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 563. 

 Syn. Carduus elongatus, Wall. ■ 



Spec. Char. Stem somewhat simplei leafless at the a|)ex, H 

 leaded : leaves scabrous on both sides, serrated, cXit, lanceolate, 

 attenuated at the base : involucral scales all slightly glabrous. 



BengaL 



(2) T. RAtoiCAUs. (Dec.) 



• Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 564.— Wight's Contrib. p. 25. 

 'Syn. Carduus radicans, Roxh. fl. Ind, III. p. 408. 

 Spec. Char. Stem branched, rooting at the base, angular, leaves 

 oblong-linear, sharply and coarsely awned and serrated, glabrous> 

 pomted : scales of the ovate involucre araneose : flowers middles- 

 size, lilac. 



. Mysore. Malabar. Deccan. Flowering in the rainy season. 

 *^ (3) T. glaberrima. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. VI. p. 564. 



Spec Char. Wh^le plapt quite glabrous ; stem erect, branched^ 

 angular: leaves Imear-lanceolate, acuminate, stem-clasping, dis- 

 tantly spotted with black specks : involucral scales produced into a 

 subulate spmescent appendage : flowers terminal, purple. 



Deccan. Concan, 



