290 Notes on Indian Botany. 



** Labiatiflor^e. Hermaphrodite flowers, usually bi- 

 labiate. 



Tribe 6th. Mutisiace^e. Style of the hermaphrodite flowers 

 cylindrical, or somewhat nodose above, branches usually ob- 

 tuse or truncated, very convex, and clothed on the superior 

 part with minute hairs, which are rarely wanting. [This tribe 

 includes 54 genera, only 4 of which are referable to the 

 Indian Flora.] 



Tribe 7th. Nassauviace;e. Style of the hermaphrodite 

 flowers not nodosely thickened, branches linear longish, 

 truncated at the apex or penicillate. [This tribe contains 26 

 genera, but has no Indian representative.] 



*** LiGULiFLORiE. All the flowers hermaphrodite. 



Tribe 8th. Cichorace/E. Style cylindrical above, branches 

 longish, somewhat obtuse, equally pubescently-roughish : 

 stigmatic series ending above the middle of the branches of 

 the style. [This last includes 83 genera, of which 1 1 have 

 Indian species.] 



The total number of genera are extracted from Meisner's 

 ( Genera Plantarum/ as owing to some errors in the number- 

 ing of the series in D. C.'s Prodromus, they could not be so 

 correctly obtained from that work. A few genera were 

 omitted by D. C. which, when added to the above, make up 

 the total number to about 920. Several have however been 

 since added to that series, so that the total number now defined 

 in Botanical works may perhaps amount to about 950. Some 

 of these will probably require to be reduced, but others must 

 be formed to include imperfectly known species, which 

 are, for the present, referred to genera to which they seem 

 most nearly related, but to which they may not properly 

 belong. 



