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above an inch in diameter, inclnding the single series of pale-yellow ray-florets. But from 

 long cultivation numerous varieties have arisen, mostly so-called double, in which all the 

 florets become ligulate or very much lengthened, and at the same time scarious palese are de- 

 veloped on the receptacle between them. These varieties, independent of colour, may be 

 classed in two groups, considered by some as distinct species, the C. indieum, with the li- 

 gulse not much longer than in the mid plant, and the C. sinense, in which they are twice or 

 thrice as long. The foliage is the same in both; but from Loochoo {Wright) we have a re- 

 markable variety with broad obtuse lobes to the leaves and a much larger involucre. 



27. GRANGEA, Adans. 



Flower-heads heterogamous. Florets all tubular, those of the circumference 

 female, slender, broadly 3-toothed, in 3 or several rows. Disk-florets herma- 

 phrodite, 5-toothed. Involucre imbricate, in 3 or 3 nearly equal series. Ke- 

 ceptaele hemispherical, naked. Style-branches vpith a veiy short obtuse cone, 

 or sometimes the style entire or scarcely notched. Achenes slightly com- 

 pressed, contracted towards the top and then expanded into a minute, cup- 

 shaped, fringed pappus. — Habit of Cotula. 



A small genus, limited to the warmer regions of Asia, Africa, and America. It is usually 

 placed amoDgst Asteroidene next to Bichrocephala, but it appears to me to have much more 

 the style as well as the habit of Cotula, under which the common species was first described. 



1. G. maderaspatana, Poir.; BO. Prod. v. 373; Wight, Ic. t, 1097. 

 A hairy prostrate branching annual, spreading from a few inches to a foot or 

 more. Leaves 1 to 3 in. long, sinuately pinnatifid and toothed, with obtuse 

 lobes, the dilated petiole clasping the stem. Flower-heads solitary, terminal, 

 at first hemispherical, at length nearly globular, about 4 lines diameter. In- 

 volucre pubescent. Female florets very numerous, the length of the disk, 

 with protruding styles. 



In rice-fields in the Happy-Valley, Champion, Wilford, Wright. A common Indian weed, 

 from Ceylon and the Peninsula to the Archipelago, and northwards to the Philippines and 

 S. China. 



28. COTULA, Linn. 



Flower-heads heterogamous. Florets of the circumference female, in one 

 or several rows, either apetalous or with a very minute corolla round the base 

 of the style. Disk-florets hermaphrodite or male, 4-toothed. Involucral 

 bracts nearly equal, in 1 or very few rows. Eeceptacle flat or slightly con- 

 vex, naked. Style of the disk-florets entire or with truncate or obtuse 

 branches. Achenes oblong or obovate, flattened. Pappus none. — Leaves 

 alternate, mostly pinnatifid. 



A small genus, spread over the Old World, with a very few species from extratropical S. 

 America, Australia, or New Zealand. The Hongkong species belongs to the section Pleio- 

 gyne, distinguished by the more numerous female florets and the bdrdeired or winged achenes. 



1. C. anthemoides, Linn.; DC. Prod. vi. 78. A prostrate, branching, 

 loosely hairy or nearly glabrous annual, from 3 or 3 in. to near 1 foot long. 

 Leaves deeply pinnatifid, with linear lobes mostly toothed or again pinnatifid ; 

 the lobes and teeth mucronate. Flower-heads solitary, terminal, hemispheri- 

 cal, scarcely above 3 lines diameter. Inner involucral bracts scarious on the 

 edges. Female florets very mimerous ; their styles the length of the disk, 

 either vrithout any corolla or with a very minute irregular one at their base. 



