314 Notes on Indian Botany. 



times calycuiate with accessory squamellae, often with the points 

 of the scales sphacellate : receptacle naked alveolate. [D. C/s 

 list of species of this genus exceeds 600. It is therefore by 

 much the largest genus of the vegetable kingdom.] 



74. Notonia, (D. C. 6-44). Capitula discoid homogamous: 

 flowers 5-toothed : branches of the style ending in a short 

 hispid cone : achaenia terete, many striated glabrous : pappus 

 many series, setae filiform, barbellate. Shrubby, succulent 

 plants with corymbose, few headed, inflorescence : capitula, as 

 compared with the above genera, large : involucrum cylindri- 

 cal 1-series, ecalyculate, the peduncle furnished with a few 

 bracteaceous scales : receptacle alveolate, naked or slightly 

 fimbriliferous : flowers longer than the involucrum, pale yel- 

 low or cream coloured. 



75. Madaractis, (D. C. 6-439). I exclude this genus 

 as being identical with Doronicum, and all its species previ- 

 ously described under that name. M. pinatifida is D. cando- 

 lianum — M. scabra, D. Lessingianum- — M.polycephala, D. Ar~ 

 nottii — M. glabra, D. Wightii. The distinctive characters of 

 the two genera are, that in Doronicum the ray florets are 

 female, in Madaractis neuter. In the character above given, I 



have combined them thus: "ray florets 1-series female or 

 sterile by abortion." 



Tribe V. Cynare^e. 



Sub tribe. EchinopsidejE. Capitula sessile one-flowered, 

 aggregated into a globose glomorulus, with numerous involu- 

 cral foliola, articulated on a globose common receptacle. 



76. Echinops, (Lin. D. C. 6-522). Capitula numerous, 

 aggregated on a naked globose receptacle, the centre one 

 opening first : corolla tubular 5-cleft : anthers ecaudate : 





