Spec. Cuar. Fruticose: branches villosely-pubescent: leaves:
-oblong-laneeolate, subacuminate at the base, attenuated into a shuit
villous petiole slightly hispid above, more or less: pubescent below,
serrated, the serratures mucronate: corymb composite, naked :
scales of the cup-shaped involucre oblong, somewhat pointedly~
mucronate, hirsutely-pubescent towards the apex : achzenium some=+
what glabrous: outer pappus short, paleaceous.
Dindigul hills.
GENUS VI. DECANEURUM.
Syn. Pol. Equalis. Ser: Syst:


Deriv. From Deca, ten, and Neuron, a nerve or rib, alluding to.
the ribbed achenium. : =


Gen, Caar. Capitula many-flowered:; achzenium usually glae


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brous, marked with 10 prominent ribs: pappus I-series, bristles
thick, rigid, densely barbellate.—Herbaceous, or suffruticose’: ledves
alternate: involucre imbricated, often surrounded with foliaceous
bracts : receptacle flat, alveolate: flowers regular, 5-cleft, purplish.
(1) D. rericutarum. (Dee.)


dent. Dec. prod, V. p. 66.—Wight's Contrib. p. 7.
Syn. Amphirephis Eadie Wall. Cat. No. 3956.—Less. in
Linn. 6. p. 686.
. Engrav: Wight’s Icon. t. 1080,—Spicil. H. t. 104.
Spec. Cuar. Stem suffruticose, erect, ramous, everywhere rough
with bristly hairs: leaves sessile, ovate, mucronate, and mucronately
sub-dentate ; rough above, densely white-tomentose beneath : nerves
and veins scabrous, reticulated: peduncles few, axillary and ter-
minal: capitula closely embraced by numerous foliaceous bracts :
“interior scales of the involucre scariose, glabrous, longer than the
bracteas: flowers purple.
Banks of streams on the Neilgherries, flowering nearly all the


‘year.
(2) D. morte. (Dec.)


Ident. Deo. prod. V. p. 67.
Syn. D. scabridum, var. and D. epilejum, var. Wight's Contrid.
‘gp. 7.—Amphirephis mollis, all. Cat. No. 3957.
