4*6 COMPOSITE. [Geangea. 



8. GRANGBA, Porsk. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 246. * 



Suberect or prostrate villous herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid. 

 Seads terminal or leaf -opposed, subglobose, not rayed, yellow. 

 Outer fl. 1-8 -seriate, female, fertile, filiform; outermost 2-fid. ; 

 inner 2-4 fid. Dish-Ji. hermaph., fertile ; tube very slender ; 

 limb oampanulate, 4-5-cleft. Involucre broadly campanulate; bracts 

 few-seriate, outer herbaceous. Receptacle convex or conic, naked. 

 Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of hermaph. fl. flattened, cuneate, 

 obtuse or with triangular points. Achenes flattened or subterete. 

 Pappiis cupular. — Species 3 or 4, in Trop. Asia and Africa. 



G. maderaspatana, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii, 825 ; Boyle III, 

 248; F,JB.l. iii, 247 ; Watt E. JD. ; Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 16. 

 Artemisia maderaspatana, Moxb. Fl, Ind. iii, 422. 



A pubescent or villous annual. Stems many, prostrate and spreading 

 from the root, forming circular patches 6-12 in. broad or more. Leaves 

 many, sessile, 1-2| in. long, sinuately pinnatifid, pubescent on hoth 

 surfaces ; lobes coarsely toothed, the terminal one the largest. Heads 

 ^-| in. in diam., solitary, rarely in pairs, shortly peduncled. Invol- 

 bracts elliptic, obtuse, densely hairy. Achenes ^'^ in. long, glandular. 

 . Poppits a short fimbriate tube. 



A common weed within the area. Flowers during the greater part of the 

 , year. Distbib. Throughout India in the plains from the Punjab 

 eastwards and southwards, extending to China and to Trop. and Sub- 

 Trop. Africa. The leaves are valued for their anodyne properties. 



9. EBIGERON, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 254. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire or toothed, cauline 

 alternate. Meads solitary, corymbose or panicled, heterogamous, 

 rayed or subdisciform. Flowers of the ray female, del 2-many- 

 «eriate, fertile; those of the disk 2-8exual, usually all fertile. Jnvo- 

 lucre hemispheric or campanulate ; bracts many, in 2 series, narrow, 

 •somewhat unequal. Receptacle flat, usually naked. Anther-bases 

 obtuse. Style-arms of herm. flowers flattened, the tips lanceolate. 

 Achenes compressed, usually narrow, the faces with or without 

 nerves. Pappus very slender, often double, the outer row of a few 

 short hairs or bristles.— Species about 100, chiefly in temperate regions 

 of the world. 



Leaves narrowly linear or linear-lanceolate, 

 entire or minutely toothed . • . . 1. ^. canadensis, 



Xieav^es obovate or oblong, toothed or lobulato . 2. E. asteroides. 



