times truncated, folded round the flower and adhering
to the pedicel. Disk flower larger subcarapanulate,
texture fragile, cellular cells quadrangular (much resembling
those of the sheath of a plantain leaf.)
1149. Oligolepis amaranthoides (R. W. Sph-
runthus amaranthoides Burm. Flora Ind. D. C. prod.)
The specimens from which the drawing was made
were somewhat deteriorated by age, and the analysis
are not so complete as I could have wished, but enough,
I think, is shown to prove that it is not a true cohgener
of No. 1094. They were gathered many years ago
in rice fields near the sea coast at Negapatam.
Figure 4 of the plate is a portion of the disk corolla,
slightly magnified.
1150. Cyathocline lutea (Law’s Mss.) leaves
nearly all radicle minute (mossy looking) sub-bipinnatifid
pubescent: stems slender, erect, dichotomously branched,
often with a capitulum in the fork, and one to three
on the ends of the branches: flowers yellow.
Tannah district near Bombay, (Law.)—The whole
plant rarely exceeds 3-4 inches in height but often
bears 10 or 12 rather large capitula. It is a most distinct
species both by habit and colour of the flowers.
1151. (A.) D oronicum to'mentosum (R. W.) stem
herbuceous erect subtomentose, at first simple, leafy,
afterwards corymbosely branched ; ramuli nearly naked
: leaves rough, lower ones, elliptic tapering to the
base: upper ones subovate-lanceolate, auricled and sub-
amplexicaul, coarsely and unequally dentate, rough and
slightly araniose above, densely white tomentose beneath:
corymbs lax peduncles bractiolate : ligulse about 14
sterile, disk flowers numerous 5 cleft: pappus setaceous
hispid : achsenium costate hairy.
North western slopes of the Neilgherries by the road
side flowering September and October. Flowers yellow,
ligulse linear 4 nerved 3 toothed : stigmas wanting,
or 2 lobed when present, apparently sterile disk
flowers bisexual 5 cleft, tubular pappus nearly as long
as the corolla silaceous rough : achsenium linear costale
hispid on the ribs.
1151. (B.) D oronicum reticulatum (R. W.)
Herbaceous, erect, ramous, stem and branches glabrous:
leaves somewhat rhomboidal, coarsely and unequally
dentate, teeth mucronate ; rough and araniosely pubescent
above, tomentose between the veins beneath, veins
glabrous : capitula laxly corymbose, longish pedicelled;
bracts subulate: ligulse 10-12 sterile, throat hairy within,
pappus none; disk flowers numerous, tube contracted,
throat dilated, campanulate : pappus paliaceous hispid
achsenium ribbed conical hairy.
Tannah district Bombay, (Law.) The difference of
the shape of the pappus and corolla of this species
seems to indicate that it might, were I so disposed, be
made to form the type of a new genus, but such appears
to me a most unnecessary refinement, the essential
character of Doronicum ‘ ray flowers bald, disk ones
crowned with pappus’—being here well marked the particular
kind of pappus and shape of the corolla then
form excellent specific characters. Both these species
are referable to DeCandolle’s genus Madaractis which
however is not distinct from Doronicum.
MADACARPUS (R. W.)
Gf.n. Char. Capitula radiate heterogamous. Ray
flowers 1 series sterile: disk ones numerous hermaphrodite.
Achaenia beakless, oblong, furrowed; without
pappus.—Herbaceous plants, capitula corymbose:
involucrum campanulate 1 series, scales linear lanceolate
mucronate: receptacle convex, foviolate : corolla
subinfundebuliform costae of the Achsenium hispid.—
R. W. Calcutta Jour. Nat. Hist.
1152. Madacarpus Belgaumensis (R. W.)
Belgaum —J. S. Law, Esq.—I am indebted to Mr.
Law for my specimens of this plant which in habit so
much resembles Dor. reticulatum that it was at first
mistaken for that plant. Annual, erect, hirsute, leaves
ovale crenate-dentate, auricled at the base, pubescent
above, tomentose beneath. Capitula corymbose, scales
of the involucrum cohering at the base, linear, mucronate
: receptacle conicul foviolate : ligulse about 8, 4
nerved, style and stigma none: disk flowers tubular
infundibuliform 5 cleft segments with a distinct mid
rib : anthers ecaudate, stigmas recurved truncated:
achaenia 10-nerved nerves hispid : pappus none.
APODYTES. Meyer—Bentham.
Gen. Char. Flowers bisexual, calyx small, unchanged.
Petals 4-5. Stamens as many, alternate with
them, none sterile. Ovary 1-celled. Fruit ovate-reni-
form subcompressed, bearing on one side a fleshy appendage.—
Inflorescence terminal.—Benth. Lin. Tr.
vol. 18, p. 680.
1153. Apodytes B enthamiana (R. W.) leaves
elliptic obtuse at both ends : panicles terminal, contracted,
rigid, shorter than the leaves, style straight
scarcely excentric : fleshy appendage of the drupe
scutelliform.—R. W. MSS.
Neilgherries rare. A singletree observed in the woods
near the top of the Hills behind the Avalanche Bungalow—
flowering in February. Shevagherry August.
Arboreous, ramuli terete glabrous: leaves alternate,
exstipulate, coriaceous, glabrous, oblong elliptic, obtuse
at both ends from 3£ to 4 inches long, including the
petiole, by 1J broad. Panicles terminal, rigid, shorter
than the leaves: Bracts minute or wanting: flowers
white, 3 lines long, calyx minute 5-toothed : petals elliptic
infiexed at the point, stamens length of the petals;
anthers linear obtuse, longer than the filaments, adnate:
ovary free hairy ovate 1-celled with 2 lateral superposed
ovules : style slightly lateral straight: stigma truncated :
drupe semiovate, reniform, crowned with the persistent
base of the style and furnished with a lateral scutelliform
appendage one-seeded : seed pendulous obovate
cuniate compressed : embryo minute in the apex of a
large albumen radicle next the hilum.
1154. L eea macrophylla (Roxb.) stem herbaceous
erect angled, petioles and leaves glabrous : leaves
simple broad cordate, dentato-serrated: cymes large
terminal; berry, black succulent six or more celled ;
cells 1 -seeded.
Walliar jungles, between Coimbatore and Paulghaut
abundant, flowering during the rains. Leaves nearly
orbicular, when full grown from 12 to 18 inches in
diameter, traversed by numerous large prominent veins.
DeCandolle quotes Roxburgh for this species, but
must have had a wrong plant before him when he defined
it, as he describes the leaves as pinnated.
1155. Sophora heptaphylla (Linn.) shrubby or
subarboreous : leaflets alternate 7-13 ovate oblong
acuminate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath: stipules