IiTPLA.] COMPOSITE. 463 



narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, tapering to the auricled tase, remotely 

 serrulate. Invol-bracts crenulate or dentate, with a dorsal apieuluB 

 near the apex. Achenes Vo-g in., usually with a prominent rib down 

 the centre of each face, sparsely hairy. Pappws-scales apiculate. 



<Common within the area, especially in rice-fields and in marshy ground. 

 Flowers during the autumn months. Distbib. Throughout the 

 greater part of India, ascending to 3,000 ft. on the Himalaya. Not 

 found in Ceylon nor in the Malay Peninsula. 



20. INULA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 291. 



Herbs, rarely shrubs. Leaves radical and alternate. Heads soli- 

 tary, corymbose or panicled, heterogamous, radiate, rarely disciform. 

 May-flowers female, 1- many- seriate, fertile ; ligule long, short or 

 minute, yellow or white, 2'3-toothed. Disk-flowers 2-sexual, fertile, 

 tubular, yellow ; limb elongate, 6-toothed. Invol-hracts many- 

 seriate, inner usually scarious ; outer more or less herbaceous and 

 sometimes foliaceous. JRecep tacle flat or tumid, pitted or areolate. 

 Anther-bases sagittate ; tails slender, simple or branched. Style- 

 urms of 2-8exual flowers broader upwards, obtuse or truncate. 

 Achenes subterete, usually ribbed. Pappus-hairs l-2-8eriate, few 

 or many, smooth scabrid or bearded.— Species about 90, European, 

 African, and Asiatic. 

 Shrubs. 



Branches leaves beneath and corymbs densely 



silky or woolly ; heads many, i in. in diam . 1. J. Capjpa. 



Branches and leaves glabrous ; heads few, in 



short axillary racemes, f in. in diam. . . 2. J. ruhricaulis. 



Herbs. 



Viscid or glabrate ; invol-bracts slender, scarce- 

 ly recurved . 3« f . indica. 



Villous ; invol-bracts squarrose, with filiform 

 recurved tips . 4. I. vestita, 



1. I. Cappa, DC. Prod, v, 469 ; F. B. I. iii, 295 ; Gamble Man. 427 ; 

 {Jollett Fl. 8iml. 258. Conyza Cappa, Earn, in Don. Prod. 176. 



An aromatic shrub, 4-8 ft. high. Branches leaves beneath and 

 i^orymbs densely villous or woolly. Branches very stout. Leaves 

 sessile or shortly petioled, 3-6 in. long, oblong or objong-lanceolate, 

 acute or obtuse, glabrous or pubescent above, silky -tomentose 

 beneath, base rounded or acute. Heads very many, J in. in diam. 

 corymbose. Invol-hracts narrowly linear or subulate, rigid, pubescent; 



