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toothed ; length 1 to 4 in. ; petioles -25 to 1-25 in. Heads about '15 in. 
in diam., globose, on pedicels many times longer than themselves, 
in lax, few-branched, cymose panicles. Bay-florets ? , filiform, 
obscurely 2-3-toothed, white. Disk-florets % , 4-cleft, yellow. Cypselas 
very small, smooth, with a callous margin, and often with 2 small 
bristles. DO. in Wight Contrib. 11, Prod. V. 372 ; Wight Ic. 
1096 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 36 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 245. D. 
gracilis and D. sonchifolia, DC. l.c. 371, 372. Cotula sinapifolia, 
Roxb. Hort. Beng. 63, FI. Ind. III. 437 ; Wall. Cat. 3237. C. bicolor, 
Both Cat. Bot. II. 116. C. latifolia, Pers. Syn. II. 464. Grangea 
latifolia, Lam. 111. t. 699. Hippia bicolor, Smith in Bees Cyclop. 
XVIII. Ethulia integrifolia, Don Prodr. 182. 
Pebak : Scortechini. — Distbib. British India, tropical and sub- 
tropical Asia and Africa. 
7. Micboglossa, DC. 
Slender shrubs, often scandent. Leaves alternate, entire. Heads 
small, heterogamous, collected in large corymbose panicles. Bay-florets 
j , in 1 or more series, fertile, the ligule minute, white. Disk-florets few 
or many, $ , fertile, tubular, with dilated 3- to 4-fid limb. Involucre 
campanulate, composed of several series of narrow bracts, the outer 
shorter. Beceptacle flat, naked or nearly so. Corolla, the ligulate or 
ray ones narrow, about as long as the style ; those of the disk (the 
tubular) longer. Anthers with obtuse bases, entire. Style-arms of the 
4 flattened ; their tips long, lanceolate. Cypselas angled ; pappus hairs 
numerous, slender, silky, in one or two series, somewhat unequal. — 
Distbib. About 6 species, Asiatic and African. 
Micboglossa volubilis, DC. Prod. V. 320. A sub-scandent shrub; 
branches half as thick as a goose-quill, ridged, glabrous. Leaves mem- 
branous, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, the base cuneate or rounded, the 
edges obscurely toothed ; both surfaces brown when dry, glabrous, the 
lower sometimes slightly pubescent ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, little 
curved, ascending, prominent beneath ; length 1-5 to 2 in. ; breadth -65 
to l - 25 in. ; petioles ‘25 to '4 in., slender. Heads • 35 in. in diam., on 
short peduncles, crowded in dense corymbose terminal cymes, much 
longer than the leaves. Cypselas compressed, 4-angled, puberulous ; 
pappus copious, reddish, much longer than the minute achenes. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 57 ; Kurz For. FI. Burm. II. 82 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. 
III. 257. Gonyza volubilis, Wall. Cat. 3057. Erigeron pyrifolius, 
Benth. FI. Hongk., 176. 
Pebak : Bidley 2890 ; Wray 2472. Penang : Wallich 3057. 
— Distbib. British India, Burma, Malay Archipelago, China. 
