484 COMPOSITE, [Teicholepis. 



anther'hases sagittate, connate, tails short. Style'arms filiform. 

 Achenes glabrous, oblong, subcylindric, about 20-ribbed, basal areola 

 straight. PappuS'Scales many 'seriate, very unequal.— A single 

 iSpecies, confined to In^ia. 



G. glabmm, Cass, in Bull. Soe. Philom. {1817), 34 ; F. B. I. Hi, S77 ; 

 Cooke Fl. Bomb, ii, 55. Athanasia indica, Boseb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 417. 



A glabrous annual with a long straight tap-root. Stem 1-3 f fc. high, rigid, 

 hollow, sharply angled and striate between the angles, branched or 

 simple below, corymbose above. Leaves sessile, 2-5 in. long, linear- 

 oblong or subspathulate, dentate or serrate, narrowed to the base and 

 ^mplexicaul, both surfaces covered more or less with dark raised 

 dots as in Tricholepis, setulose on the margins and with white carti- 

 laginous teeth. Heads J-§ in. long, erect, narrow, pedicelled, fascicled 

 in compound corymbs. Invol-hracts lanceolate, acuminate, striate, 

 often with coloured tips. Flowers 4i-b m each head, exserted, rose- 

 purple. Achenes ^ in. long. Pappus-scales linear or obovate, subobtuse 

 their edges minutely ciliate. 



Bundelkhand (Edge worth, Duthie), Indore (Edgeworth). Distrib. V^. 

 Bengal, 0. India, and the Deccan. Often gregarious. 



44. TRICHOLEPIS. I^C. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 379. 

 Annual or perennial branched unarmed herbs. Leaves entire 

 toothed or the lower pinnatified, often with raised dots on the sur- 

 faces. Beads terminal, solitary, peduncled, homogamous. Flowers 

 all 2-sexual, similar, fertile, yellow red or purple, regular or sub- 

 oblique, tube slender, limb 5-cleft to the middle. Involucre ovoid 

 or broader ; bracts many-seviate, very narrow, usually with long 

 recurved hair-points or mu'cronate, the outer shorter. Receptacle 

 densely bristly. Filaments papillose ; anther-bases sagittate, auricles 

 connate, tails slender, lacerate. Style-arms slender. Achenes 

 glabrous, obloag or obovoid, smooth, ribbed, basal areole lateraL 

 Fappus-bristles many-seriate and very unequal, serrulate, barbellate 

 or feathery, long and slender, or shoit and paleaceous, or 0. — About 

 10 species in Afghanistan, India and China. 



Stem elongate, slender, pappus scabrid 



not plumose . . . . . 1. T. glalerrima. 



Stem short or 0, pappus plumose • • 2. T. stictophyllum. 



1. T. glaberrima, DC. Prod, vi, 564 ; Bene, in Jacquem. Voy, Bat 98^ 

 t. 106; F. B. I. iii, 381 ; Watt E. D.; Cooke Fl. Bomh. ii, 5fi. 

 Quite glabrous. Stem slender, erect, rigid, angled and ribbed. Leaves-;; 



sessile, 2-3 in. long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, acute, entire or spinous- 



