318 Notes on Indian Botany. 



ing : achaenia oblong, compressed, hilum oblique : pappus un- 

 equal, hairs many series ; rough, not annulate. Unarmed or 

 prickly herbs : involucrum ovate, scales imbricated, the 

 exterior ones shorter spinulose, interior long scariose at the 

 apex ; receptacle fimbrillate : corolla purple or white, never 

 yellow. 



88. Jurinea, (Cass. D. C. 6-673). Capitula homogamous : 

 corolla longer than the involucrum : stigmas distinct : achaenia 

 obpyramidal 4-sided, with an apicular areola, afterwards 

 growing into deciduous shield, bearing the pappus : pappus 

 rising within a minute calyciform margin, thick, unequal, 

 barbellate. Herbaceous perennials, leaves white tomentose 

 beneath : involucrum subglobose or cylindrical, scales im- 

 bricated, unarmed, adpressed : fimbrillge of the receptacle cleft 

 into linear bristles : flowers purple. 



Tribe VI. MuTisiACEiE. 



Sub- tribe. Mutise^e. Capitula very rarely \-flowered, 

 usually \-series of females in the margin, the rest herma- 

 phrodite : style thick, branches exteriorly ver*y convex in the 

 hermaphrodite ones ; the exterior as well as the superior part 

 of the style puberulous or glabrous : pollen often slightly 

 elliptic : shrubs or large herbs with large handsome capitula. 



89. AiNSLiiEA, (D. C. 7-13). Capitula 3-flowered, homo- 

 gamous : corolla tubular bilabiate, exterior lip 3, interior 

 2-cleft : anthers appendiculate, with long spurs at the base : 

 stigmas exserted, obtuse, glabrous, often by abortion unequal, 

 acute, or one altogether abortive : achaenia terete, villous 

 erostrate : pappus 1 -series, setae elegantly plumose. Herbace- 

 ous perennials ; stems erect, simple : involucrum cylindrical, 

 scales lanceolate, acuminated, imbricate : receptacle naked : 

 flowers purple. [This genus is dedicated to the late Dr. 





