MONOSIS WIGHTIANA. (Nat. order Composite.) 



MoNOSIS. BO. — GEN. CHAR. Capituli 1 -flowered, the floret tubular and equal regular with 5 narrow lobes, involucre oblong the scales 

 imbricate obtuse much shorter than the floret, anthers obtuse at the base without tails, style-lobes subulate, achenes glabrous terete, pappus 2-3 series 

 bristles rigid scabrous equal. Trees or shrubs, leaves alternate, panicles naked the apices of the branchlets bearing numerous subumbellate sessile capituli, 

 flowers rose-colored. 



MoNOSIS WlGHTIANA. (DC.) A good sized tree, branches terete velutino-tomentose, leaves from elliptic or oblongo 

 elliptic to obovate, acute or rounded at the apex, cuneate, acute or obtuse or even subcordate at the base, quite entire or with irregular 

 distant serratures, subglabrous except the veins above, velutino-hirsute beneath, 6-8 inches or more long by 2\ -3 \ broad, primary pin- 

 nate veins very prominent, petioles 6-12 lines long, panicles terminal very large much branched bracts of the lower ramifications 

 large spathulate, flower-heads pedicelled or sessile at the apices of the sub-corymbose ramulij involucral-bracts obtuse pubescent outside. 

 Wight. Icones tab. 1085. 



A very showy tree when in full flower in February and March ; it is abundant on the eastern slopes of the Nilgiris at 4000-5000 feet 

 elevation, and is also to be met with elsewhere on our western mountains (Anamallays, Pulneys, &c.) ; its wood is soft and worthless, 



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