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tomentose beneath ; capitula corymbose ;■ scales of the involucre 

 linear mucronate; hgulae about 8 (4-nerved); style and stigma none ; 

 achenia 1 0-nerved ; nerves, hispid ; pappus none. At Belgaum.. 



31. ECHINOPS, Linn. 



1. E EcHiNATUS, Roxb. — Erect, much-branched; leaves pin- 

 natifid, pubescent and viscid above, hoary and tomentose beneath ; 

 divisions ovate-lanceolate, waved plain ; heads of flowers terminal, 

 solitary, globose spinous ; florets pale-lilac ; tube slender ; divisions 

 linear-acute, revolute ; pappus short, brush-like ; ovary very hairy. 

 Guzerat and the Deccan; common. Roxb. Fl. Ind, iii, p 447. 



32. AMBERBOA, Isn. 



1. Indica, DC. Prod. 6, p 658. — Stem erect-branched, 

 furrowed and angular, naked at the top ; leaves glabrous or rough, 

 lanceolate, coarsely toothed, uppermost few, linear, entire. Guzerat. 

 Syn. Serratula indica, Klein in WiUd. sp. iii, p 1642 ; Athanasia 

 indica, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii. 



33. TRICHOLEPIS. 



1. Procumbens, Wight Ic. t.. 1139. — Stem- flexuose, short, 

 ramous ; branches diffuse, procumbent, angularly striated, subglab- 

 Eous; leaves shortly pubescent or subglabrous, those of the stem lyrate, 

 of the branches sinuately pinnatifid,the lobes spinously mucronate; 

 iavolucrum ovate ; scales ovate at the base, araneose, terminating in 

 a prickle-like appendage ; flowers purple. Flowers in the cold 

 weather ; common in light soils in Guzerat. Syn. Carduus ramosus, 

 Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 407. 



2. T Radicans, DC. Pvod. 4,.p 564. — Stem branched ; branches 

 spreading;- leaves obovate or oblong-linear, sharply serrated ; the 

 teeth bristle-pointed, smooth, dotted; heads of flowers small, 

 terminal, purple. Common in ravines in the Deccan. Syn. Car- 

 duus radicans, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 408. 



3. T Glaberrima, DC. loc. cit. — Tall, erect, smooth, with the 

 stem angled ; leaves linear lanceolate acuminate, stem-clasping, 

 distantly spotted with black specks ; florets 7 lines long ; heads of 

 flowers as in the preceding, only a little larger. The Concan and 

 Deccan ; common. 



4. T Montana. — A coarser species; leaves obovate-oblong, 

 very coarsely toothed, or sometimes pinnatifid, difters from the last 

 also in having long, slender stigmas. The Ghauts. 



