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Heads on long peduncles, solitary or few corymbose, pink (red or 
yellow). Flowers all bisexual; limb elongate, 5-toothed. In¬ 
volucre cylindric; bracts in 1 row, receptacle flat. Achenes 
minutely hairy. Pappus white, silky. Species 14 to 15, Indo- 
Malaya, Africa. 
(1) E. sonchifolia DC. Prodr. vi. 302 ; King, l.c. 38. 
Annual 6 in. to 1 ft. or more tall. Leaves lower ones usually 
lyrate pinnatifid below, 1*5 to 4 in. long; cauline ones hastate or 
linear toothed or pinnate, sessile auricled. Flower-heads *4 in. 
long; peduncles 1 in. long or more. Involucre apple green nearly 
as long as the flowers, lobes very unequal, linear-oblong. Flowers, 
tube white, limb rose pink. Stamens and style pink tipped crimson. 
Achene buff with lines of spines between the ribs. Hob. Weed 
in waste ground, paths, etc., variable. Whole peninsula. 
var. minor King and Gamble. Lower leaves ovate with 
narrow-winged petioles. A common form or state. Distrib. 
Indo-Malaya. Native names: Katumbit Tantan; Satumbak 
Merah. 
20. ERECHTHITES, Raf. 
Erect more or less puberulous herbs. Leaves alternate, lobed or 
pinnate dissect. Heads corymbose on the ends of branches, 
narrow. Corolla pink (white or yellow). Outer florets female in 
2 or many rows, filiform. Disc-florets bisexual, 5-fid. Achenes 
oblong-linear. Pappus white, tinted pink, abundant silky. Species 
12, American, 1 spread all over Asia. 
( 1 ) E. valerianifolia, DC. Prodr. vi. 295. Gynura bicolor King, 
l.c. 40 in part, not of DeCandolle. G. rosea Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. 
Soc. S. Br. 6i, p. 25. 
Herb about 2 ft. tall, generally tinted with pink. Leaves 
finely dissected, 1 to 3 in. long or lobed toothed; petiole in lower 
leaves x in. long, glabrous or nearly so. Heads *25 in. long. 
Involucral bracts green, very narrow-acuminate. Flowers rose 
pink, tube white. Achenes cylindric, hairy. Pappus in bud 
mauve, at length white tinted pink. Hah. Weed in waste ground 
of South American origin, now spreading over Java, Borneo, 
Sumatra and Malay Peninsula. Common in Singapore. Negri 
Sembilan, etc. 
21. LAGGERA, Schultz. 
Herb. Leaves alternate. Heads panicled or axillary, outer 
florets bisexual filiform, teeth minute. Disc-florets several rows 
5-lobed. Involucre campanulate. Bracts rigid, narrow. Species 
9 or 10, India and Africa. 
(1) L. flava Benth. Gen. Plan. ii. 290; King, l.c. 36. 
Glabrous or puberulous herb, 6 to 30 in. tall. Leaves mem¬ 
branous, glabrous oblong acute, cordate amplexicaul (radical leaves 
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