SlEGESBECKIA.] COMPOSIT^ 



467 



X. strumarium, Linn. 8p. PI. 987 ; F. B.I. Hi, 303; Watt E. D. r 



Collett Fl. Siml. 261; CooTce Fl. Bomb, ii, 37. X. indicwm, DCs 



Roxh. Fl. Ind. Hi, 601.— Y em. Chota datura. 



A coarse uparmed herb. Stem short, stout, slightly branched, spotted, 

 harsh with bristly hairs. Leaves petioled, 2-3 in. long, triangular- 

 cordate, cuneate at the base ; lobes toothed, undulate, scabrous on 

 both sides. Reads in terminal and axillary racemes ; barren many, 

 crowded at the top of the stem. Fruiting involucres | in. long, ovoid 

 or oblong, covered with hooked prickles ; beaks 2, erect. 



Common within the area in waste places and near habitations. Dis- 

 TRiB. Himalaya up to 6,000 ft. and throughout the hotter parts 

 of India and in Ceylon ; also found in China and in other warm 

 parts of the world. It is probably indigenous in America. The 

 leave? yield a .yellow dye, and an oil is obtained from the seeds. 

 The fruit ia used medicinally. 



23. SlEGESBECKIA, Linn., PI. Brit. Ind. iii, 303. 



Glandolar-pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, t oothed. Heads in 

 leafy panicles, heterogamous, subradiate, yellow or white. Ba^' 

 fiowers female, l-eeriate, fertile, tube short, limb 2-3-ud. Disk- 

 flowers 2-sexaal, fertile, or the inner sterile, tubular, limb campa- 

 nulate and 5-fid, or narrow and 3-4-toothed. Involucre campanulate 

 or hemispheric ; hracts few, herbaceous, glandular ; outer spathulate, 

 spreading, inner inclosing the ray-flowers. Beceptacle small ; pales 

 membranous, concave, often inclosing the flowers. Anther-has es 

 entire. Style-arms of 2-sexual flowers short, flattened, subacute." 

 Achenes obovoid-oblong, not compressed, often incurved, obtuse. 

 Pa'p'pus 0.— Species 2, one cosmopolitan, the other Peruvian. 



S. orientalis, Linn. Sp. PI. 900 ; F. B. I. iii, 304 ; Collett Fl. 8imh 

 262 ; Coohe Fl. Bomb, ii, 38. S. brachiata, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 439. 



A large^ erect, pubescent annual up to 4 ft. high ; lower branches 

 opposite, spreading ; the upper 2-chotomoua5 often tinged with pur- 

 ple. Leaves opposite, petioled, 1-5 in. long and broad, triangular- 

 ovate, acute or acuminate, deeply and irregularly toothed, both 

 surfaces appressedly pubescent; the upper ones smaller and nearly 

 entire ; petioles winged. Heads 5 in. in diam. peduncled, arranged in 

 leafy panicles. Flowers yellow, rarely white, tbose of ray often tinged 

 with red beneath. Invol-bracts in two series ; the cuter linear-spathu- 

 late or clavate, spreading, with viscous hairs on the upper surface ; 

 inner short, boat-shaped, glandular-hairy on the back, each enveloping 

 a ray-floret. Achenes curved, black, each irclosed within a boat- 

 shaped bract. 



Very common on the edges of rice-fields and streams, Distbtb. 

 A bundant on the Himalaya up to 5,0C0 ft. and throughout Indift and 

 Burma generally. Cosmopolitan in warm countries. 



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