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22. SCLEROCARPUS, Jacquin. 



1. S Africanus, Jacq. Ic. rar. t. 176. — Annual, erect; stem 

 rough ; leaves broadly ovate, acutely serrated, petioled alternate 

 3-nerved ; heads of flowers yellow^, solitary subsessile, at the apex 

 of the branchlets. Found originally on the River Senegal, and 

 afterwards in Northern India, by Royle; but supposed by Ue- 

 Candolle to be introduced into the latter country. This does 

 not appear to be the case, as it is found truly wild on the highest 

 hills around Jooneer; flowers in July and August. 



23. SPILANTHES, Jacq. 



1. S AcMELLA, Linn. syst. veg. 610. — Stem slightly rooting at 

 the base, erect or ascending; leaves petioled, ovate-lanceolate, 

 3-nerved, entire or toothed, rather glabrous ; peduncles three times 

 longer than the leaf; heads of flowers ovate; ligulse 6 to 6, very 

 small ; achenia ciliated, with 1 to 2 awns. Syn. Verbesina acmella, 

 Linn. Maut. 475 ; Acmella linnsei, Cass. Diet. 24, p 330. Supposed 

 to include Pseudo, Acmella, and Calva. Chorla Ghaut. 



24. GLOSSOCARDIA, Cass. 



L BosvALLEA, DC. in .Wight Contr. p 19. — A small annual, 

 with many stems, diffuse ; leaves alternate, much-divided, linear at 

 the base; heads of flowers solitary, yellow, on short, naked peduncles. 

 Common. Syn. Verbesina bosvallea, Linn. Suppl. p 379 ; Willd. 

 Sp. iii, p 2223 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 443 ; G linearifoha, Cass. Diet, 

 xix. p 62. Much used in female complaints. 



25. GLOSSOGYNE, Cass. 



1. G PiNNATiFiDA, DC. in Wight Contr. p 19. — Glabrous, 

 erect; stems dichotomous ; leaves alternate, crowded, short, pin- 

 nately divided ; lobes linear, acute-entire, uppermost small, linear, 

 undivided; heads of flowers erect; yellow, awns on the se'eds 

 widely-spreading. Southern Maratha Country. 



26. ARTEMISIA, Linn. 



1. Indica, Willd. sp. iii, p 1846. — Erect, suffruticose ; leaves 

 ashy and tomentose beneath, lower pinnatifid, upper trifid, upper- 

 most undivided, or with lanceolate lobes ; lobes of the lower 

 leaves toothed or cut ; heads of flowers racemose-panicled, ovate ; 

 panicle leafy, spreading, partial racemes pendulous before flowering, 

 young involucre a little tomentose, at length glabrous; exterior 

 scales foHaceous, acute, interior membranaceous obtuse; corol 

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