488 COMPOSITM, [Ceepis. 



This genus, in respect to its flowers, may be considered as forming a 

 connecting link with the Cichoriaceoe. In habit it much resembles 

 Baccharis, a South American genus belonging to the tribe Asteroideoe. 



C. 1>accharoides, T. Thorns, in Journ. Linn. 8oc. ix {1865), 343, t. 4 ; 

 F. B. I. Hi, 389; Kanjilal For. Fl. Sch. Circ. 210. 



An undershrub up to 3^ ft. high. Branches terete, appressedly silky. 

 Leaves 2-3 in. long, ob ovate -spathulate, distantly crenate or crenate- 

 serrate except along the gradually tapering |-amplexical base, coria- 

 ceous, glabrous, neryes prominent. Heads ^ in. long, arranged in 

 broad terminal dichotomously branched corymbs ; branches slender, 

 pnberulous, suberect in the axils of minute bracfc-like 1 ^.aves. Invo- 

 lucre much shorter than the flowers. Corolla f in., yellow,' ZigfuZes 

 spreading. Achenes -^-^ in. long, turbinate or obovate-oblong, clothed 

 with long silky hairs ; basal areole lateral. Pappus ^ in., white. 



In rcck-crevices on the Siwalik range (Royle, Falconer, Stewart, Edge - 

 worth, Kanjilal, Duthie), not known to occur elsewhere. Flowers 

 during Dec. and Jan. 



49. CREPIS. Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii,393. 



Annual or perennial glabrous or hairy herbs, hairs never stellate. 

 Leaves radical or alternate ; cauline often stem-clasping, entire 

 toothed or pinnatifid. J2eac?6r fpeduncled, solitary fascicled or corym- 

 bose, yellow or red, homogamous. Flowers all ligulate. Involucre 

 cylindric or campanulate ; bracts either many-seriate and regularly 

 imbricate, or the outer small cr very much shorter than the linear 

 I-seriate inner ; base or midrib sometimes thickened after flowering. 

 Meceptacle flat, rarely concave, naked or shortly fimbrillate. 

 Achenes more or less fusiform or oblong, rarely short and cylindric, 

 often slender, glabrous or scaberulous, 10-20-ribbed, tip narrowed 

 or beaked. Pappus short or long, usually copious, hairs usually 

 silvery, simple and soft, rarely brownish and stiff or brittle. — Species 

 about 130 ; in N". temperate regions of the Old World, and on moun- 

 tains in the tropics. 



Annual, flowering stems long and slender . 1. C. japonica. 



Perennial, flowering stems usually shorter 

 than the leaves . . .... 2. C. acaulis. 



1. C. japonica, Benth. Fl. Eongh. 194 ; F. B. I. Hi, 395 ; Collett Fl. 

 8iml. 281. 



Annual, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves mostly radical and rosulate, 

 petioled, 2-6 in. long, obovate, sinuate-toothed or runcinate-pinnatifid, 

 membranous ; cauline few and smaller. Flowering stems 6-18 in., 

 slender, erect, nearly naked, soft, corymbosely branched near the apex. 



