<5lossocabpia.] composites. 471 



Bece^ptacle convex, elongate, pales inclosing the flowers, often 

 connate with the ovary into a stalk. Anther 'bases truncate, entire 

 or 2-toothed. Style-arms of the 2-sexual flowers truncate. Achenes 

 of ray triquetrous or dorsally compressed, margins and angles 

 usually ciliate. Pappus 0, or of 2-3 bristles. — Species 20, chiefly 

 in Trop. America. 



S. AcmeUa, Murr. Syst. Ed. xiii, 610 ; Hon-l. Fl, Ind. Hi, 410; F. B. I. 

 ■in, 307 J Wati E. D. ; Collett Fl. Siml. 263 i Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 42. 



A n erect or ascending more or less hairy anniial. Leaves petioled, |-li 

 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, acute or sub-ohtuse, usually cuneate at 

 the hase, irregularly crenate-serrate or sometimes entire, glabrous. 

 Heads usually long-peduncled, ^-f in. long, solitary or panicled. 

 Invol-bracts oblong-lanceolate, subacute, ciliate. Ligules (when pre- 

 sent) minute, white or yellow. Achenes glabrous or'scabrid. 



Abundant within the area. Distrib. Throughout India and in Ceylon, 

 ascending to 6,000 ft. on the Himalaya and in all warm countries. 

 The heads, especially those of the cultivated variety (S. oleracea) 

 have a hot pungent taste and are used medicinally and the leaves 

 ■as a pot-herb. 



29. GLOSSOCARDIA. Cass. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 308. 



A branched glabrous annual. Leaves alternate, slender, 1-2- 

 pinnatisect. JSeads small, * terminal and axillary, hefcei-ogamoas, 

 rayed, yellow. Bay-flowers female, usually solitary^ fertile ; ligule 

 2-fid. Disk-flowers 2-sexual, few, fertile, tubular, limb 4-fid. In- 

 volucre oblong ; bracts few ; inner oblong, with broad membranous 

 margins ; outer 1-3, slender. Beceptacle small, flat ; pales few, 

 flat. Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of 2-sexual flowers 

 with linear acute hispid tips. Achenes narrowly oblong, dorsally 

 much compressed, faces bearded. Pappus of 2 smooth stiff awns. 

 — A single species. 



G. linearifolia, Gass. in Bid. 8c. Nat. ocix, 62; F, B. I. Hi, 303 • 



Coolie Fl. Bomh. ii, 43. Verbesina Boswellia, Boxb, PI. Ind. iii, 443, 



A small usually prostrate glabrous annual, diffusely branched ifrom the 

 base; branches 3-10 in. long, grooved. Leaves on slender petioles, 

 i-2 in. long, 2-pinnitisecb ; segments narrowly linear, apiculate. Beads 

 I in long. Outer invol-hracts smaM, usually 3, with a greenish midrib 

 and membranous ciliate margins ; inner much larger, oblong, obtuse, 

 striate, glabrous, and with pale membranous margins. Achenes i in, 

 long, densely bearded especially on the edges with stiff Imirs 

 Fappus-aivns spreading. 



