312 



Spec. Char. Stems round, hairy : leaves palmately 5 to ?- 

 }obed : lobes ovate-acute, silky and, hairy : peduncles many-flpwer- 

 pd, as long as the leaf : heads of flowers surrounded by 6 to S 

 ovate-linear hairy bracts : corolla white, hairy. 



Common in hedges in the Peninsula, flowering nearly all the. 

 year. ' 



(24) I. piLOSA. {SweeU), 



Ident. Dec. prod. IX. p, 363. 



Syn. Conv. pilosus, Roxb. I. p. 473. — Ed. Car. II. p. 55^. 



Spec. Chak. Stems hairy, herbaceous : leaves bro^dly-cordatp, 

 entire or slightly 3-lobed, the middle lobe acuminate, 2 to 6 inches, 

 long, long-petioled : peduncles longer than the petioles : flowers, 

 many, cymose : sepals linear, hairy : corolla tubulair, white or rose->. 

 coloured : capsules glabrous : seeds villous. 



Mysore. Bengal. Flowering in the cold season, 



(25) I. piLEATA. {Roxh.) 



Ident. IlQ3fb. flor. Ind. II. p, 94.— De?;. prod. TK,. p, 365. 



Syu. Conv. pileatus, Spreng. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1363. 



Spec. Char. Stem slender, villous: leaves cordateraquminate, 

 petioled, glabrous : peduncle^ shorter ijhan the petiole : flowers 3; 

 to 6, sessile, in a boat-shaped perfoliate involucre : bracts obovate, 

 hirsute : corolla tubular campanulate : capsule glabrous : flowers 

 rose-coloured. 



Jungles in the Southern Concan. Flowering in, the cold season, 



(26) I. SESSILIFLORA. ( Roth.) 



Ident. Roth. Nov. Sp. p. 117.— Dec. prod. IX. p. 366, 



Syn. Ip. sphaerocephalus, Sweet. — Conv. sesiiiliflorus, Spreng.— t:, 

 C. hispidus, Fahl.—C. sphaerocephalus, Boash. — Ip. hispida, Roem^ 

 ^ Schult. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 169. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, covered with hairs pointing 

 downwards : leaves cordate, ovate-lanceolate or sagittate ; flowers 

 axillary, 1 to 12, subsessile or very shortly-pedicelled, rose-colour- 

 ed : sepals acuminate, subulate, hairy ; corolla scarcely longer than 

 the calyx : capsule hairy : seeds glabrous. 



Severndroog. Common in most parts of the country. Flower* 

 ing in the cold season. 



