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acute. Gypselas truncate at each end, minutely hairy. DC. in Wight 
Contrib. 24. E. sonchifolia, vars. a and /3, Clarke Comp. Ind. 174. 
Calcalia sonchifolia, Linn. Sp. PI. 835 ; Eoxb. FI. Ind. III. 413 ; Don 
Prod. 180; Wall. Cat. 3144. E. glabra, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 3145. 
Gynura ecalyculata, DC. l.c. 298. Prenanthes sarmentosa, Wall. Cat. 
3262e. E. scabra, DC. l.c. 303; Wight Ic. 1123. E. mucronata, 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 175. 
Singapore : Hullett 240. Penang : Deschamps ; Scortechini ; 
Stolickza. — Distrib. British India, Malay Archipelago, China. 
Var. minor, King & Gamble. Little more than a foot high, lower 
leaves broadly ovate, truncate at the base, on long narrow winged 
petioles. 
Perak : King’s Collector 301. Penang : in Klang and Batu Gaja 
jungles : Deschamps. 
In this variety the terminal lobe only of the leaf is developed, the lower part being 
long and narrow like a petiole. 
13. Gynura, Cass. 
Succulent herbs, rarely undershrubs, sometimes climbers, glabrous 
or hispid. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or pinnatisect. Heads 
solitary or in corymbs, bracteolate at the base, homogamous, disciform, 
yellow or purplish. Florets yellow : all the $ tubular, fertile (rarely a 
few of the outer ones more slender and $ ) the limb 5-toothed. Involucre 
cylindric or sub-campanulate ; the bracts 10 or 12, in a single series, 
narrow, equal; their margins scarious; receptacle flat, pitted or shortly 
fimbrillate. Anthers with bases entire or sub-auricled. Style-arms 
slender; their apices long, slender, subulate, hispid. Cypselas narrow, 
many-ribbed ; hairs of pappus copious, in many series, slender, white. — 
Distrib. Species about 20, Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
Scandent ; leaves subentire or slightly dentate, petiolate . . 1. G. sarmentosa. 
An erect herb ; leaves always boldly dentate and often pinnatisect 
or pinnatifid, sessile and often snb-amplexicaul or auriculate .. 2. G.licolor. 
1. Gynura sarmentosa, DC. Prod. VI. 298. Stem and branches 
loosely twining, glabrous except the puberulous peduncles, thinner than 
a goose-quill, pale brown and striate when dry. Leaves succulent, 
elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, the base cuneate, 
the edges subentire or slightly dentate, both surfaces brown when 
dry, glabrous ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, spreading, faint on both 
surfaces ; length 1 to 3 in. ; breadth - 4 to 1 in. ; petioles of the lower 
leaves - 15 to - 4 in. ; the small upper leaves often sessile. Heads few, 
•65 to -75 in. long, and as much in diam., on slender puberulous 
