Cyathocline.] composite. 44Sr- 



flowers short, flattened, tips lanceolate. AcJienes compressed and with 

 a thickened border. Pappus 0, or in the 2-sexual flowers of 2 minute 

 bristles. — Species 5, in Asia and Africa. 



D. latifolia, DC. in Wight Contrih, 11; F. B.I. Hi, 245; 



Collett Fl. Siml. 247 ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 14. Ootula sinapifolia, 

 Boxh. ; FL Ind. Hi, 437. Ethnlia integrifolia, Don Prod. 182. 



An erect or spreading branched annual, up to 2 ft. high, pubescent or 

 glabrous. Leaves petioled, very variable, 2-3 in. long, ovate or lanceo- 

 late, entire pinnatifid or lyrate, coarsely toothed, terminal lobe broadly 

 ovate. Heads about J in. in diam., on slender divaricating: bracteate 

 pedicels. Iwuol-bracts very small, linear, the margins scarious. Recep- 

 tacle much raised, naked. Corolla of outer flowers filiform, curved, pink 

 or purplish, obscurely 2-toothed ; of disk flowers yellow, 4- or 5- 

 toothed. Achenes under ^^g in. long, smooth. 



Dehra Dun (King, Duthie). Flowers during the rainy season. DisTRiB, 

 Himalaya up to 9,000 ft. from Simla to Sikkim also on the Khasia range 

 from C. and W. India to Ceylon ; extending to China and Trop. Africa. 



7. CYATHOCLINE, Cass. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 246. 



Erect annual odorous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatisect. Heads 

 small, panicled, heterogamous, not rayed. Outer Jlowers many- 

 seriate, female fertile. Dish-Jlowers hermaph., usually sterile, regu- 

 lar, 5-cleft. Involucre hemispheric ; hracts sub -2- seriate, lanceolate, 

 acute, margins scarious. Peceptacle with a contracted base, elevated ; 

 top concave, naked. Anther-bases truncate. Style exserted, of 

 hermaph. fl. simple or cleft. Achenes minute, oblong, smooth. 

 Pappus 0. — Species 2, both in India. 



C. isrrata, Cass, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. I. acviii, 420 ; Boyle III. 

 248 ; F. B. I. iii, 246 ; Collett Fl. JSimL 249 ; CooTce Fl, Bomb, 

 ii, 15. 



An erect sparsely hairy sweet-scented herb. Stem 1-2 ft. high, slendef, 

 branched, softly pubescent. Leaves sessile. 1-5 in. long ; lower obovate, 

 upper pinnatifid, segments toothed. Heads discoid, ^ in. in diam., 

 arranged in small rounded panicled corymbs. Invol-'oracts ciliate on 

 the scarious margins. Flowers rose-purple or occasionally white 

 corollas of the outer rows very slender Achenes minute, smooth. 



Found in many parts of the area, especially on the banks of streams and 

 in moist situations. Flowers during the cold season. Disteib. 

 Throughout the greater part of N. and 0. India, ascending to 5,00G ft. 

 on the Himalaya ; also in Bengal, Burma, and China. 



