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the stem into wings ; peduncles axillary ; panicles racemed, few- 

 headed ; heads of flowers drooping. On the Ghauts. Syn. Conyza 

 alata, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 430; Erigeron alatum, Don. Prod. 171. 



8. Leptocladea, CO DC. Prod. 5, p 443. — Glabrous below, ashy 

 villous above ; stem herbaceous, erect, round-branched ; branches 

 twiggy, panicled, bearing sessile heads, solitary or clustered in an 

 interrupted spike; leaves rather glabrous, obovate-oblong, gradually 

 attenuated to the base, almost petioled, coarsely and sharply 

 serrated at the apex; involucre scales linear-acuminate, the length of 

 the flowers; male flowers 12 to 16. 



9. PLUCHEA, Cassini. 



1. Waluchiana, Less, in Linn. 1H31, p 150.— A tall shrub, 

 branches and young leaves puberulous; leaves obovate subsessile, 

 distantly and acutely seriated, mucronate ; corymbs terminating the 

 branches, very numerous ; flowers pink. Guzerat, near Dhej. Only 

 one bush of this lias been seen in the whole country, and we suspect 

 it is not really indigenous, though the specimen was not near any 

 house or garden. 



10. EPALTES, Cass. 



1. DivARiCATA, Cass. Bull. Philom, 18 IS, p 139. — Stem herba- 

 ceous erect, much-branched ; leaves linear-oblong, attenuated at the 

 base, decurrent along the stem, remotely toothed ; peduncles shorter 

 than the leaf, almost without bracts ; involucre scales very acute, 

 longer than the disc ; flowers pink. Syn. Ethuha divaricata, Linn. 

 Maut. 110; Burm. Ind. 176, t. 58, fig. 1 ; Pluk Aim. t. 2\,jig. 4. 



11. VICOA. 



1. Indica, DC. Wight Contr. p 10. — Leaves auricled at the 

 base, lanceolate-acuminate, serrated or nearly entire, more or less 

 puberulous on both side's, rays twice as long as the disc. Syn. 

 Inula indica, Willd. sp. iii, p 2U92 ; Linn sp. 1237; Doronicum 

 calcuratum, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 434; Burm. zeyl. 124, t. 55, f. 

 2; Pluk. Aim. t. 149, N. 4, /. 3; Aster indicus, Willd. sp. iii, p 

 2041, nov. Linn. 



1. V Cernua, Dalz. — A shorter plant than the preceding, with 

 oblong lanceolate leaves ; heads of flowers drooping, distinguished 

 by having always one or two bristles as pappus to the ray flowers. 

 Elevated parts of the Concans ; flowers in October. 



12. CiESULIA, Roxb. 



1. Axillaris, Roxb. Cor. i, p 64, t. 93 ; Fl. Ind. iii, p 447.— 

 Glabrous, ascending ; leaves alternate linear-lanceolate, acuminated 



