470 COMPOSITE. [Wedeiia. 



Achenes of ray cnneiform, triqnetroiis, ctirved, hispid those of the 

 disk shorter and nearly straight. 



Chilkana in the Saharanpnr district (T. Thomson), Bundelbhand (Edge- 

 worth). Flowers during the cold season. Distrib. In Kumaon 

 np to 5,000 ft., from the Punjab Plain and Bengal to S, India, 

 Ceylon and Upper Burma; also in Java, Trop. Africa, America, and 

 Australia. The plant has a faint pleasant aromatic smell (Hoxb). 



27. WEDELIA, Jacq. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 306. 



Scabrid pubescent or hirsute herbs or undershrubs. Leaves 

 opposite. Heads axillary or terminal, heterogamous, radiate,, 

 yellow. Ray-flowers female, fertile ; ligule spreading, entire or 

 2-toothed. JDisk-fioioers female, fertile or the central sterile, 

 tubular ; limb elono;ate, 5-toothed. Jnvol-hracts sub-2-seriate ; 

 outer 3-5, usually herbaceous or f oliaceons, inner dry. Receptacle 

 flat or convex, pales inclosing the flowers. Anther-bases entire or 

 subsagittate. Style-arms of 2-sexiial flowers with acute hairy 

 tips. Achenes cuneate -oblong or obovoid, thick, smooth or tuber- 

 cled, laterally compressed or the outer triquetrous, tip rounded, mar- 

 gins obtuse or thickened. Pappus 0, or a toothed cup or ring, or 

 of short scales, with sometimes a few bristles. — Species about 45,. 

 tropical and subtropical. 



W. Wallichii, Less, in Linncea vi, {1831), 162; F. B. I. iii, 307' 

 A suberect hispid or scabrid herb. Leaves petioled, 2-4| in. long, ovate- 

 acuminate, serrate, 3-nerved, usually hispid on both surfaces, and 

 with appressed bulbous -based hairs. Outer invol-hracts oblong, 

 obtuse or acute, equalling or exceeding the disk-flowers, hispid out- 

 side ; inner scarious and with toothed edges. Achenes obovoid, com- 

 pressed or obscurely 3- or -i-angled : tip contracted, laxly hispid. 

 Pappus a toothed cup often bearing a few bristles. 



Dehra Dun (Duthie). Distbib. Trop. Himalaya up to 5,000 ft. in 

 Kumaon and eastwards to Bhutan and the Khasia Hills; also in 

 Burma, and Java. 



28. SFILANTHES, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 307. 



Annual herbs, ieaoe^ opposite, ffeads usually long-peduncled, 

 axillary or apparently terminal, heterogamous and radiate, or 

 homogamous and disciform. Ray-Jiowers female, 1-seriate fertile, 

 ligule white or yellow. Dish-flowers 2-sexaal, fertile, tubular. 

 limb-4'5-fid. Involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts sub-2-seriate» 



