156 Notes on Indian Botany. 



disks numerous, 5-cleft ; pappus setaceous hispid : achaenia 

 costate hairy. 



Hab. — North-western slopes of the Neilgherries below 

 Neelawuttem. Flowering September and October. 



Obs. — The plant seems annual, attains the height of from 

 ten to twenty inches, terminating in a few-flowered-corymb of 

 yellow flowers, or rather capitulae; the stem which is simple 

 towards the base, is sparingly tomentose, ribbed, divides above 

 into three or four branches, each bearing a few capitulae. The 

 leaves are elliptical in their outline without any proper pe- 

 tiole, as the limb is decurrent to its insection, and there 

 expands into an auricle which, in the upper leaves, is some- 

 what amplexicaul : above, rough to the touch and cloth- 

 ed with a thin cobweb-like pubescence ; below with a thick 

 coat of white tomentum. Bracts few, subulate : scales of 

 the involucrum linear acuminate, pubescent: ligulae linear, 

 4-nerved, 3-toothed at the apex : stigma wanting or 2-lobed, 

 but apparently sterile : flowers of the disk bisexual, 5-cleft 

 tubular : pappus nearly as long as the corolla, setaceous, 

 rough : achaenium linear, costate, hairy on the ribs. 



D. reticulatum, (R. W.) herbaceous, erect, ramous ; stem 

 and branches glabrous : leaves somewhat rhomboidal, coarsely 

 and unequally dentate, teeth mucronate ; above rough and 

 arachnoidosely pubescent : beneath tomentose between the 

 veins : veins glabrous (hence reticulated) . Corymb lax, capi- 

 tula longish pedicelled ; bracts subulate : ligulae 10-12-sterile, 

 naked, the throat crowned with a tuft of hair : disk flowers 

 numerous, 5-cleft, tube contracted, throat campanulate : pap- 

 pus equalling ; the tube paleaceous, subulate, hispid : achae- 

 nium ribbed, conical, hairy. 



Hab. — Thannah District Bombay, Law. Except that this 

 is a larger and more ramous plant than the preceding, they are 



