322 Notes on Indian Botany. 



siders this a good genus, but adds that all the species require 

 to be re-examined.] 



101. Prenanthes, (Cass. D. C. 7-194). Capitula 3-5- 

 flowered: style exserted: achaenia attenuated at the base, 

 subcylindrical or subpentagonal, truncated: pappus many 

 series, pilose rigid. Herbs with entire or dentate leaves : 

 racemose or paniculate drooping capitula, with 4-6-leaved 

 cylindrical involucra, calyculate at the base : flowers purple. 



Sub-tribe. Hieracie;E. Receptacle epaleaceous : pappus 

 filiform, rigid, fragile, becoming dirty white or yellow. 



102. DuBYiEA, (D. C. 7-247). Capitula many flowered; 

 achaenia compressed, striated, ending in a short thick neck : 

 pappus many series, white. Herbs with undivided dentate 

 leaves : capitula few subcorymbose : involucrum campanulate, 

 imbricated, exteriorly hispid or prickly : corolla yellow. 



103. Mulgedium, (Cass. D. C. 7-247). Capitula many 

 flowered : achaenia glabrous compressed, often nerved on both 

 sides, attenuated upwards into a short thick beak expanding at* 

 the apex into a cup-shaped disk : pappus one or several series, 

 setae rigid, rough, greyish or white. Erect ramous herbs, 

 with pinnatifid leaves and racemose or panicled capitula : 

 involucra calyculately imbricate, that is, the exterior scales 

 are much shorter and subimbricate : receptacle naked fovio- 

 late : flowers blue or purple. 



