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form, white yellow, or lilac. Outer florets ? , in several series, fertile, 
filiform. Disk-florets $ , few, sterile, tubular and 5-fid. Involucre 
broadly ovoid or campanulate ; its bracts few or in many rows, imbri- 
cate, ovate or lanceolate, dry, rigid ; receptacle flat, naked. Corollas of 
the 2 flowers filiform, shorter than their own styles, their apices with 
3 teeth; corollas of the $ flowers regular, tubular, the limb slightly 
widened, 5-cleft. Anthers sagittate at the base, their basal auricles 
tailed. Style-arms of the £ flowers filiform, entire or bifid. Cypselas 
small, 4- or 5-angled. Hairs of pappus slender, rigid, in a single series, 
free, or (in the sterile cypselas) connate in groups. — Disteib. About 
30 species, tropical and sub-tropical. 
Pluchea indica, Less. ; DC. Prod. V. 451. A low shrub, glabrous 
or nearly so ; stems smooth, terete. Leaves membranous, obovate or 
oblanceolate, the apex obtuse or acute, acuminate or apiculate, 
narrowed to the base ; edges dentate, serrate or sub-serrate ; both sur- 
faces olivaceous-brown when dry, glandular ; main-nerves 3 to 6 pairs, 
curving upwards, bold beneath ; length -5 to 2-75 in. ; breadth -3 to 
1- 25 in. ; petioles - 1 in. to -4 in. long. Heads '25 in. in diam., in com- 
pound terminal puberulous corymbose cymes, much longer than the 
leaves ; involucral bracts few, rather broad, obtuse. Florets of the 
disk 3 ; those of the ray numerous. Cypselas minute, ribbed, nearly 
glabrous ; pappus scanty, spreading, reddish-white. Wight 111. t. 131 ; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 93 ; Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 272 ; Prain Bengal 
Plants 600. P. foliosa, DC. l.c. 451. Conyza corymbosa, Boxb. FI. 
Ind. III. 426 ; Wall. Cat. 3009. C. indica, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 58. 
Baccharis indica, Linn. 
Malacca : Griffith. Penang : Wallicli. Singapore : Kurz. Din- 
dings : Curtis 3451. Perak : Scortechini 848 ; King's Collector 2893. 
— Disteib. British India, Malay Archipelago, China, Australia 
11. Sph^jranthus, Linn. 
Annual herbs with spreading branches. Leaves alternate, toothed, 
.decurrent. Floiver-lieads proper, small, heterogamous, disciform, 
sessile, on a common receptacle, bracteate or not, and forming solitary, 
globose, or ovoid, a head-like terminal cluster, usually bearing at its 
base an involucre of a few empty bracts. Outer florets 2 < few or 
many, fertile, slender ; inner solitary or few, § , fertile or sterile ; 
involucre narrow, its bracts dry, narrow, unequal, acute ; receptacle 
■small, naked ; pappus none. Florets : 2 with filiform, minutely 
2- 3-toothed corollas ; $ with regular corollas with thickened tube 
and 4-5-toothed limb. Anthers with sagittate bases acute or tailed. 
Style of £ florets with filiform arms or entire. Cypselas oblong, sub- 
