478 COMPOSITES. [Emilia. 



2-4 in. long, ovate in outline, 1-2-pinnatisect, with stipule-like lotes 

 at the base, more or less pubescent above, ashy-grey or white-tomentose 

 beneath; upper leaves often sessile, linear-lanceolate, entire or 3-fid. 

 JTeac^s sessile or shortly pedicelled, ovoid or subg-lobose, arranged in sub- 

 secund spike-like suberect or horizontal panicled racemes, brownish- 

 yellow. Jnuol-bracts woolly or glabrate; outer small, herbaoeons, inner 

 mostly scarious. Outer fern, flowers very slender ; inner hermaphrodite 

 flowers lertile. Achenes minute. 

 -Common in Dehra Dun as a garden weed, and in the vicinity of camping 

 grounds. Disteib. Western Himalaya up to 12,000 ft., and eastwards to 

 Sikkim, Assam and Burma ; Mt. Abu in Eajputana, and on the hills 

 W. and S. India to Ceylon ; also in Europe, N. Asia, Malay 

 Islands, Siam, China and Japan. The Dehra Dun plant belongs to 

 the form known as A.indica, which has the lower surface of the leaves of 

 an ashy-grey colour. An infusion of this plant is used medicinally ; 

 the plant is also employed to keep away fleas and other insects. 



38. EMILIA' Cass. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 335. 



Annual or perennial herbs, often glaucous, glabrous or hairy.. 

 Radical leaves crowded, petioled, entire toothed or Ijrate-pinnatifid ; 

 -cauline few, stem -clasping. Seads long-peduncled, solitary or loosely 

 •corymbose, without bracteoles at the base, homogamons, discoid, yellow 

 ■or red. Flowers all 2-sexual, fertile, tubular; limb elongate, 5«toothed. 

 Involucre cylindric ; bracts 1-seriate, equal, free or cohering, striate. 

 JReceptacle flat, naked. Style-arms subterete ; tip shoru and obtuse, 

 or long and acute. Achenes subterete or angled and 5-ribbed. 

 Fappus-hsAr& copious, white, soft, slender. — Species 4 or 5 ; E. Indian 

 ^nd Trbp. African. 



E. soncMfolia, BC. Prod, vi, 802; Boyle 111. 248 ; F. B. L iii, S36 ; 

 ■€ollett Fl. Siml. 268 ; Cooke Fl. Bomh. ii, 49. Oacalia sonchifolia, lAnn. ; 

 Don Prod. 180; Boxh. FL Ind. iii, 413. 



A slender somewhat glaucous herb, 10-18 in. high, glabrous puberulous or 

 scabrid. Stems erect, or diffuse and often rooting at the nodes, more 

 or less branched. Leaves 1^4 in. long ; lower petioled, lyrate-pinnati- 

 fid or obovate, entire or sinuate ; upper smaller, amplexicaul, with 

 acute or obtuse auricles. Heads ^ in. long, sc^litary or laxly corymbose ; 

 peduncles very slender, nodding when young. Invol-bracts nearly 

 equalling the flowers, linear-oblong, acute, narrowly margined. 

 CoroWas pinkish-violet or white. Style-arms ^-cylindric, the tip conic. 

 Achenes ^ in. long, with 5 scabrid ribs. 



Common within the area. Flowers during the greater part of the year. 

 DiSTRiB. Throughout India, ascending to 5,000 ft. on the Himalaya, 

 and in Ceylon ; also in China and in tropical and subtropical Africa and 

 in America (introduced). 



