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pedicels usually in scanty, lax, long-peduncled, axillary and terminal 
cymes longer than the leaves ; bracteoles of the panicle and of the 
calyculus at the base of the involucre few, small, linear. Involucre 
spreading little, its bracts narrowly oblong, subacute or blunt, 
glabrous ; their edges scarious, nearly as long as the florets. 
Cypselas small, brown, with 10 puberulous ribs; pappus white. 
Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 335. G. Finlaysoniana, DC. l.c. 299 ; 
Deless. Ic. Sel. IV. t. 55. Cacalia cylindrifolia, reclinata, and Fin- 
laysoniana, Wall. Cat. 3150, 3151, 3162. Sonchus voluhilis, Rumph. 
Herb. Amb. Y. t. 103 f. 2. 
In all the provinces, common. — Distbib. Malayan Archipelago; 
Siam ; Philippines. 
2. Gynuba bicoloe, DC. Prod. YI. 299. Herbaceous, 2 or 3 feet 
high, glabrous or sparsely and minutely glandular-hairy on the upper 
part ; stems erect, branched, about the thickness of a quill near the 
base, boldly striate when dry. Leaves pinnatisect or pinnatifid, the 
lobules acutely dentate ; the terminal lobe narrow and acuminate, 
narrowed at the base into a petiole varying in length from -5 to 1 in. ; 
the upper sessile and often auriculate at the base, or shorter and 
narrowly obtuse with large teeth ; length 2-5 to 5 in. ; breadth -4 to 
3 in. Heads about -5 in. long, less in diam. Involucral bracts 
narrow, with scarious margins and acute often recurved tips. 
Cypselas very slender, much ribbed, sub-glabrous; pappus copious, 
white, tinged with pink. Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. III. 335. Cacalia 
bicolor, Roxb. FI. Ind. III. 412 ; Salisb. Hort. Parad. t. 25 ; Bot. 
Regist. t. 110. 
Singapobe : Ridley 1618. Johobe : Ridley 2741 ; King. Peeak : 
Wray 1445, 3599. Penang: Deschamps. Malacca: Griffith (K.D.), 
3235. — Distbib. China, Moluccas. 
14. Siege sbeckia, Linn. 
Glandular-pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite, toothed. Heads in 
leafy panicles, heterogamous, sub-radiate, yellow or white. Ray- 
florets ? , in a single series, fertile, the corollas short-tubed, with 
2-3-fid limb or a short, broad ligule. Disk-florets £, fertile, or 
the inner ones sterile ; the corollas regular, tubular, the limb cam- 
panulate and 5-fid or narrow and 3- to 4-toothed. Involucre cam- 
panulate or hemispheric, the bracts few, herbaceous, glandular, the 
outer usually 5, spathulate, spreading ; the inner enclosing the ray- 
florets. Receptacle small ; the pales membranous, concave. Anthers 
with entire bases. Style of $ florets with short, flattened, sub-acute 
arms. Cypselas obovoid-oblong, often incurved, their apices obtuse ; 
