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(3) M. NEItGHERRENSE. (/?. JV.) 



Ident. Wight's Icon. vol. III.— Spicil. II. t. 119. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1144. 



Spec. Char. Stem erect, glabrous, somewhat panicled at th»- 

 apex : cauline leaves runcinately pinnatifid, ^oubly crenate, dilated 

 and somewhat stem-clasping at the base : terminal lobe subrhom- 

 buid, attenuated upwards, mucronate, somewhat hairy on both sides : 

 floral ones entire, lanceolate : pedicels hairy, at the apex : capitula 

 ovate : involucral scales imbricated : outer ones hairy on the back : 

 achaenia obovate, compressed, ending in a long beak : pappus dou- 

 ble, outer short, paleaceous, inner long, slender, bristly : flowera 

 purple. 



Neilgherries, in jungles and. by the road-side, flowering in. thoi- 

 xainy and cold seasons. 



ORDER LXXXIX. STYLIDIAGE^. 



Ord. Char. Herbs or undershrubs with a stem or scape t- 

 leaves occasionally in: whorls^ or scattered, or the radical ones 

 clustered, entire ^ stipules wanting : flowers racemose, spicate^. 

 or corymbose, terminal, rarely axillary, pedicels usually with 3 

 bracts : calyx adherent, limb 2-6-partite, regular or two-lipped, 

 persistent : corolla monopetalous, slowly deciduous : limb rarely 

 regular, 5-6-partite, imbricated in aestivation: stamens two, 

 filaments connate with the style into a longitudinal column: 

 anthers twia or simple, overlying the stigma :■ ovary 2-ceI[ed, or 

 occasionally 1-celled from the construction of the dissepiment, 

 many-seeded, often crovmed with one, or two opposite glands : 

 style one : stigma entire, or 2-cleft : ovules anatropal : capsules 

 2-valved, 2-celled, sometimes 1-celled by contraction: seeds 

 small, erect, sometimes stalked, attached lengthwise to the axis 

 of the dissepiment: albumen fleshy, somewhat oily: embryci. 

 minute, included, 



GENUS. STYLIDIUM. 



Cryiiandrta Dlandrla. Sex: Syat: 



Deriv, From Stylos, a column. The stamens and style aifr; 

 united. 



