INULA. 
4/ / 
aquaticum Scliultz in WB. ii. 233. — Herb. ann. PS. reg. 1, r; 
Nl). r ; GD. reg. 2, ccc. Dry sunny beds of streams or dried- 
up muddy places wvliere water has collected during heavy rains ; 
in PS. in sandy cornfields at the back of the beach sparingly ; 
in GD. abundant all up the central valley. Apr.-June. — 
Whole pi. villous or pubescent bushy and leafy 2 or 3-12 in. 
high, of a peculiar pale apple-gr. and singular aspect from its 
repeatedly proliferous mode of inflorescence, viz. that to which 
the old botanists quaintly applied the term of u herba impia ” — 
the younger fl. rising above the elder. Root simple perpendicular. 
St. erect straight simple and like the branches shaggy-villous 
hard stiff very tough and rigid pale or whitish strawy-colour, 
with at first a single terminal fi. and then in luxuriant spec. 
2-4 times proliferously branched. Branches short and like the 
main st., springing mostly dichotomously close beneath the fl., 
each bearing a terminal fl. and again divided or dichotomously 
branched close below it in a forked proliferous manner. L. 
shortly and closely pustuloso-pubescent, 1-2 in. long, crowded 
beneath the fl., irregularly waved or curled and subcondu- 
plicate, the upper narrower, all subobtuse. Fl. rather large 
sessile in the forks of the branches bright lemon-y. handsome 
and fragrant like Heliotrope, with, however, somewhat of a 
rhubarb-like smell. Heads villous hemispherical quite sessile 
4-8 lines in diam. very hard or woody. Outer scales of inv. ob- 
long produced into spreading or erecto-patent gr. wavy soft- 
pointed not spinose-cuspidate 1., their base like the inner scales 
oblong pale w. or whitish hard dry coriaceous or parchment- 
like and woolly or cottony-villous. Ligules of ray numerous 
short and narrow. Disk flat. 
I still possess spec, of this pi. gathered in Porto S to with my 
late friend Webb in May 1828, ticketed by him u Buphthal- 
mum odorum ? Schousb., fields P t0 S t0 ,” which thus demon- 
strate the mistake in WB. ii. 239, line 4 from the bottom, as- 
serting B. odorum Schousb. to be a Porto-Santan pi. ; for most 
certainly Webb gathered there no other sp. but the present. 
B. Recept. naked or scaly only at the margin. 
Tribe XIV. Inulece Cass. 
23. Inula L. 
1. I. viscosa (L.). Afavaca or Alf abaca, 
Ilerbaceo-suflrutescent, woody downwards, subviscouslv vil- 
lous upwards ; 1. lanceolate acute, spliacelateiy cuspidate and 
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