WB COMPOSITM [CoNTZA. 



InTolucre-ljracts narrow. 



Heads \ in. diam., arranged in sparingly 

 branched corymbs. 

 Leaves serrate or the upper sometimes 



entire 1. C.japonica. 



Leaves pinnatifidly lobed . . . 2. C cegyptiaca. 



Heads i in. diam.. in much branched corymbs.— 



A tall gland-pubescent herb . . . S. . visddula. 



Heads I in. diam., stems very leafy and fasti- 

 giately branched above . . . . 4. C. stricta. 



Involucre-bracts ovate, acute, with broad well- 

 defined scarious margins . . . . 5. C. rufa. 



1. C. japonica, Zess. Syn, Comp, 204 ; F. JB. I. in, 238 ; Collett 

 Fl. Siml. 252. 



An erect villous or woolly rarely glabrate annual, 6-15 in. high. Stem 

 terete, often simple. Lower leaves sabsessile, often crowded, 1-3 in. 

 long or sometimes with much larger radical leaves, obovate spathulate 

 or lanceolate, coarsely serrate or crenate ; the upper ones sessile, 

 i-amplexicaul, oblong or ovate-oblong, often entire. Heads | in. in 

 diam., globose, arranged in rather dense terminal corymbs. Invol- 

 tracts narrowly lanceolate, acute, with scarious margins. Achenes gV in., 

 margined, glabrous or very minutely pubescent. Pappus | in., at length 

 reddish. 



Pehra Dun (King). Flowers during May and June. Distrib. Punjab 

 plain, and on the Himalaya up to 7,000 ft. from Simla eastwards and on 

 the Khasia Mountains ; Nilgiri Hills, Pegu, and Martaban ; also in 

 Afghanistan, China, and Japan and the Philippines. 



2. C. segyptiaca, Dryand. in Ait. Sort. Kew. ed. L Hi, 183 ; 

 F.B.I. Hi, 258. 



An erect hirsute herb 1-2 ft. high. Stem stout and rather woody below, 

 densely clothed with spreading hairs. Leaves 1^3 in. long, lanceolate 

 or obovate-lanceolate, unequally pinnatifidly lobed, pilose and hispid 

 on both surfaces. Invol-hracts narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, hispid 

 outside and with scarious margins. Achenes -^q in., slightly margined 

 and sparingly hairy. Pappus ^ in., reddish. 



Dehra Dun and in the Sub-Himalayan tract of Eohilkhand. Flowers 

 during April and May. Distrib. Tropical W. Himalaya in Garhwal 

 and Kumaon, and on the Nilgiri Hills ; also in Africa, China, Japan, 

 and Australia. This plant may at once be distinguished from C. 

 japonica by the more deeply cut leaves and the larger heads. It 

 might be mistaken for Erigeron asteroides, but the outer flowers of the 

 heads are not ligalate. 



