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heads of flowers solitary, leaf-opposed, or terminal peduncled, 

 globular, rose-coloured or purple ; peduncles winged. Very 

 common. 



4. DICHROCEPHALA, DC. 



1. Latifolia, DC. Prod. 5, p 372. — Stem erect, with scat- 

 tered hairs ; leaves obovate, attenuated into the petiole, coarsely 

 toothed, often subpinnatifid at the base ; flower bearing branches 

 almost naked ; pedicels rigid-spreading, longer than the globose 

 head of flowers. Ram Ghaut, during the rains. Syn. Cotula 

 bicolor. Roth. Cat. Bot. ii, |) 116; Sphseranthus africanus, Burm. 

 Ind. 185, t. 60, /. 2 ; Grangpa latifoha, Lam. lUust. t. 699, f. i; 

 Hippia bicolor. Smith in Ree's Cycl. 18, N. 2; Cotula latifolia, 

 Pers. Enchir. ii, p 464; D erecta, L'Her. Mss. 



5. GRANGEA, Adans. 



1. Madraspatana, Poir. Diet. Suppl. iii, p 825. — Stems 

 procumbent or diffuse, villous ; leaves sinuato-pinnatifid, the lobes 

 obtuse ; peduncles terminal or opposite the leaves ; heads of flowers 

 yellow, solitary, subglobose. Rice fields, in the cold weather. 

 Syn. Artemisia madraspatana, Linn. sp. 1190; Cotula madras- 

 patana, Willd. sp. iii, 2170; Grangea adansonii, Cass. Diet, 

 xix, p 304. 



6. CYATHOCLINE, Cass. 



1. Stricta, DC. Prod. 5, p 374. — An erect-branched, delicate 

 plant ; leaves tender, pinnately divided, the lobes somewhat linear, 

 coarsely and regularly serrated ; flowers corymbose, terminal, purple. 

 Banks of streams in the Concan jungles. Syn. Tanacetum 

 viscosum, E. and F ; Artemisia stricta, Heyne. Herb. 



2. Lawii, Wight Tc. t. 1150. — Leaves nearly all radical, 

 minute, sub-bipinnatifid, pubescent ; stems slender, erect, dichoto- 

 mously branched, often with a capitulum in the fork ; flowers yellow ; 

 the whole plant 3 to 4 inches in height. The Ghauts. 



7. CONYZA, Lessing. 



1. Absinthifolia, DC. in Wight Contr. p 16. — Erect, much- 

 branched, pubescent ; leaves obovate oblong-mucronate, attenuated 

 towards the base, lower ones coarsely toothed, upper entire ; 

 panicle corymbose, much-branched, many-headed ; involucre scales 

 linear-acuminate, shorter than the flowers. The Ghauts. Syn. 

 Baccharis trifurcata, Trevir in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. xili, 

 p 210; C pinnatifida,.Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 430. 



