IM, PAN, ML Or COMPOSITAE INDICA. COMPOSIT.JE INDICE, DESCRIPTJAE ET SECUS GENERA BENTHAMII ORDINATZJE. A H e a C: B^CLARKE olim. Horti Botanici Calcuttensis prefecto. -RUSLINST ix Ez 211917 NM * ij pgy, wi &alcutiu: ATIGUAL V THACKER, SPINK AND CO. " Bowsax: TuackgR, VieiNG & Co. Mapmas : HicoiNBorgaM & Co. Lowpow: W. TuackEsn & Co. 1876. (Price, One Rupee Eight Annas.) * INTRODUCTORY NOTE. .. "THE present Monograph was intended to appear in the Jour- nal of the Asiatic Society, Bengal, of which Society I had former- ly the honor of being a Member. With this object I placed it in the hands of the Society's Secretary early 4n April 1875 : and arranged then with him for its early appearance as an extra number. Though I wrote to him, reminding him that one reason I had placed the Monograph in the hands of the Society was that it might appear early, I could get no reply from him till August when the subjoined correspondence (which requires little comment) ensued. No. 1. No. 336, AsraTIO SocrgTY's Roows; Calcutta, August 2nd, 1875. Mx pzAR CLARKE, Iam directed by the President to inform you that * the Council regret that they cannot afford the expense of publishing your Monograph of Indian Compositze." Will you please tell me what I am to do with the MS. « Yours sincerely, JawEs Woop-MasoN, Hon. Secretary. C. B. Cranxz, EsQ., Deorjeeling. No. 2. 94th, August, 1875. My pzAR CLARKE, In reply I beg to state that your offer to pay such portion of the expense of printing the Comp. Ind. as might be necessary to reduce the cost to the Society within that of an ordinary paper—in short any portion of the expense that the Council might ask of you—was duly laid before that body. The whole correspondence was, moreover, forwarded to the President some time before the meeting of the Council at which the ques- tion was considered. Yours very truly, JAwES Woop-Masom. iu No. 3. Darjeeling, 8th Nov., 1875. Mx pzAn Woop-MASON, I duly received your letter of 24th Au- gust, 1875, and as I had other grounds for knowing that the statement in it is true, and that consequently the statement of the Asiatic Council to me conveyed by their Secretary's No. 336 of 2nd August, 1875, is not true, Ilaid the papers before a friend of high position and experienced judgment ; and now with his approval beg you to communicate to the Asiatic Council that I have withdrawn from the Society. In communicating this to the Council on my behalf, I trust you will make it clear to the Council that I do not in any way deny their right to reject any paper offered for publication, giving no reasons whatever for such rejection. Yours very truly, C. B. CLARKE. No. 4. No. 663, AsraTrc SocrgTY's Roows; Calcutta, 10th Dec., 1875. C. B. Cranxg, EsQ., : Danjeeling. Mx pEAR Sirm, In repiy to your letter of the 8th November Tam directed by the Council to express their regret, that you should wish to withdraw from the Society on account of the non-accept- ance of your paper. I am further to state that the Council were aware of your offer to pay the cost of publication, but they never entertained the idea of charging you or any body else for the printing of an article published in the Journal for which the Society annually passes a fixed sum. Now, when you forwarded your Monograph to the Council, one of the conditions of printing made by you was that the whole should appear together; and as doing so would have nearly swallowed up the whole of the sum sane- tioned for the Journal for this or any year, the Council in- formed you that they could not afford the expense of printing your Monograph. Further, they were aware from your letter that their non-aeceptance of the paper would have no influence in depriving of it the public interested in such matters, as you ii had determined to publish it whether the Council printed 16 or not. Viewed in this light, the resolution of the Council was. perfectly correct. Trusting the explanation will be considered satisfactory. Í am, my dear Sir, Yours faithfully, J. WATERHOUSE, Capt., Hon. Sec., A. S. B. No. 5. 21st January, 1876. My DEAR StR, In reply to your letter No. 663 of l0th Decem- ber, 1875, I must first point out that you have asseu&ed in your first para., what I so particularly denied, viz., that I have with- drawn from the Asiatic Society, because the Society did not . accept my paper. The facts are these. I placed my paper with an offer to pay the cost of publication in the Society's Secretary's hands in April last: the Council wrote to me in Àugust, stating that they declined the paper because of the cost. In my letter of 8th November, I have said I had other grounds (beside Mr. Wood- Mason's letter of 24th August) for impugning the statement made by the Council. I will mention one of these. When my paper was first brought before the Council it was ordered to be referred to Dr. King for report (as Dr. King himself tells me): and the Council would give me no reply about accepting the paper (although the cost was caleulated by the Secretary before first laying it before them) until they could get in Dr. King's report. "There was some delay about this: and when it arrived it was of a dubious character, and did nof recommend the Council to accept the paper. "The Counmeil thereupon in August write to me that they "have declined the paper * because they cannot afford the expense :;" a short letter hinting at no other concurrent reasons. The Council still assert, in their No. 663, that their resolution was perfectly correct. I do not wish to press my charge of untruthfulness further against the Council: as they have made me an explanation after I had made the charge, 1t would appear ungenerous, and quazrrelsome so to do. But 1v whether the Council's course was *' perfectly correct" or not, it - was not the friendly and courteous treatment that I expected from them. The Council might, when my paper was first laid. before them, have told me that they never permitted the authors of papers to contribute towards the cost of the Asiatie Journal : or they might fhen have declined the paper without giving any reason, and I should have had nothing to complain of. As matters stand, I feel no inclination to have anything more to do with the Society, and must repeat that I have withdrawn from it. Yours very truly, C. B. CraRKE. To Carr. WATERHOUSE, Hon. Secy., A. S. B. It is perhaps superfluous to state that the correspondence stopped at this point. It will perhaps surprise persons unac- quainted with the internal management of the Asiatie Society, . Bengal, to learn (after reading the above correspondence) that the Council Asiatic Society Bengal constantly receive payment from contributors of papers to their Journals. The Council may say that such payments are supposed devoted to the cost of il- lustrations, and that no part of them goes to the printing: but I perhaps have no right to suggest that they would put forward. so disingenuous a distinction. To make the story qwite complete, I may add that the dii question ofthe printing was arranged (before the paper was first laid before the Council) with their Secretary. It was arranged that it might appear as an Extra Number of the Journal (exactly as similar papers appear in supplemental numbers of the Lin- nzaan Journal) without any disturbance of the Society's ar- rangements with their printer whatever. The Asiatie Society Bengal actually published in m-- 1875 an Extra Number of the Journal without illustrations, viz, Blyth's Catalogue of Birds and Mammals of Birma: the very month in which my Monograph should have appeared: and I am told that the cost of this Monograph was largely provided by Mr. Blyth's friends. 1I was to pay the whole cost of the ** Indian Composite" if so desired by the Society. My object in troubling the Society with the paper at all was solely to secure the services of the Society's Secretary in putting it through the press. I am a travelling officer in re- Y mote parts of Bengal,and my Calcutta printers do not under- stand one word of Latin: the consequence is that 1t has occupied. me nearly a year to get the present book through the press, and itnow appearsin very different style from that in which it would have appeared, had it enjoyed the advantage of superin- iendence by the Asiatic Society's Secretary on the spot. Indis orientalis pars ea qua a reginze Victorie vicario admi- nistratur cum Zeylania in hoc libello India dicitur. Idcirco plante Cabulieze (qua potius ad Floram Persicam spectant) et plantz Singaporenses (quas Flore Malaiez melius tribueris) preetermis- se sunt. — Ante oculos habui (1) Herbarium Horti Botanici Caleuttensis mihi in usum a Doctore King (Horti Praefecto) benigne ac libe- raliteP traditum (2) Herbarium proprium amiciss. Sulpicii Kurz, plures species in. Himalaya boreali a Doctoribus Stoliezka, Bran- diset Jaeschke lectas, et multas species Javanicas nominibus authenticis notatas continens. (3) Exempla a meipso 1n omni fere planitie Bengalicà ;in Khasià ;in Sikkim usque ad 16,000 ped. alt.;in Himalayà boreali-oecidentalhi : in Chutià Nagpurá: in Madras et in Nilagiricis quasi-À penninis collecta. Preterea Sulp. Kurz mihi Compositarum Indicarum Catalo- gumacl T. Thomsoni manu perscriptum pretiosum benigne tradidit. Libri subseripti citantur : (1.) De Candollei Prodromus : part. V. VI. VII. (2.) RBoxburghii Flora Indica, a Doctore Carey edita. (3. Wighti Icones Plantarum Indis orientalis. (4.) Miquelii Flora Inaize Batavz. (5.) Kochii Synopsis, Florz Germanice et Helvetice ; Editio Tertia 1857. (6.) Walpersii Repertorium Botanices Systematicc et Annales Botanices Systematicz. Conspectus Tribuum, Subtribuum et Generum Indicorum e magno opere Benthamii exscriptus. Tuipus I. VERNONIACEE. Capitula homogama, tubuliflora. Anthe- re basi sagittatz. Styli rami subulati, hirtelli. Foha sspis- sime alterna. Corollz nunquam flave. Pappus ssepius setosus vel paleaceus. Subtribus 1l. Ewvernoniec. Capitula discreta: Series 1. Ethuliez. Pappus 9 vel e setis caducissimis compositus. * Antherarum auricule obtuse vel acuminatz nec caudate. 4. Ethulia. Achsenia 4-5-angulata, apice late truncata. Pappus 0. Capitula parva, laxe corymbosa. Involucrum campanula- tum nec foliatum. 8. Centratherum. Achsnia l0-costata. Pappi setze paucs vel copiose. Capitula mediocria vel majuscula, solitaria vel co- rymbosa. ÍInvolucrum latum, bracteis exterioribus foliaceis laxis vel rarius breviter tantum herbaceo-appendiculatis. 9. Lamprachsenium. Achznia ecostata, nitidissima, apice ro- tundata. Pappi sete paucs. Capitula parvula, corymboso- panniculata. Involucri bractez acutissimze vel exteriores sub- appendiculatze. * * Anthere basi subeaudatee. 18. Adenoon. Achsnia 10-costata.'Pappus O0. Capitula co- flora corymboso-paniculata. Involucrum paniculatum. Series 2. Euvernoniezm. Pappus plus minus persistens e setis sepius 2-9-seriatis compositus, interioribus copiosis tenuibus elongatis rarius leviter complanatis, exterioribus nunc con- formibus at brevioribus copiosis paucis vel evanidis nunc brevibus plus minus paleaceis. 16. Vernonia. Receptaculum nudum vel rarius foveolatum. Antherarum auricule obtuse vel acuminate nec caudatm, Achsenia 10-costata, pappi setis vel paleis exterioribus variis vel nullis vel 4-5-angulata setis exterioribus copiosis brevi- bus. Herbs fruticesve ramis foliatis. Capitula varia. CONSPECTUS GENERUM. ni -Subiribus 2. Lychnophorece. Oapitula ssepius l-vel pauci-flora, in glomerulum capituliformem aggregata. 98. Elephantopus. Glomeruli pleio-cephali, terminales vel sessiles, receptaculo communi parvo. Capitulorum involucra e bracteis sepius 8 biserialibus. Corollz sepius a latere in- teriore profundius fisss. Pappi sete vel pales; 1-2-seriates, rigidse. Tnrbsus II. EvPATORIACEZ. Capitula homogama, tubuliflora. An- there basi subintegre. Styl rami subteretes, obtusi, breviter papillosi. Folia opposita vel alterna. Corolle rarius ochro- leues nec vere flavzee. Pappus szpius setosus. Sübtribus 1 Piqueriec. Antherz apice truncate exappendicu- late. Achsenia costis 5 angulata, secundariis evanidis. 47. Adenostemma. Involucri bractee numerose, sub-2-seriatze, pàrum inzquales. Pappi sete 3-5, breves, rigidze, subclavatse, patentes. Herbs. Capitula mediocria vel parvula, laxe corym- boso-paniculata. Subtribus 2. Ageratec. Antherse apice appendiculate. Achsmnia costis 5 angulata, secundarus evanidis. * Pappus e toto vel partim paleaceus vel aristosus vel e setis rigidis 5-10. ! 94. Ageratum. Involucri bractese 2-3-seriatee, parum inzequales. Pappi paleze nune 5 breves vel longe aristate libere velin coronam laceram coalitze, nunc 10-20 anguste breves in- equales. Herbs. Capitula mediocria vel parvula, dense co- rymbosa vel laxe paniculata. * * Pappi setze co, siniplices vel breviter barbellatz. 66. Eupatorium. Involueri bractese co-seriatee imbricatee, vel 2-9-seriatee parum insquales, semper plus quam 5. Pappi sete co tenues vel rigidule, leves sceabre vel barbellatz. Herbs fruticesve. Capitula parva mediocria vel majuscula, panieulata, corymbosa vel longe pedunculata, co-vel rarius 1-4-flora. Corollz tenues, in limbum parum ampliatee. . 67. Mikania. Involucri bractecte 4 parum inszquales. Pappi seta co uniseriate scabre. Frutices vel herbs, szepe volubiles. Capitula racemosa vel paniculata, 4-flora. Corolle limbus ssepius distincte campanulatus. Styli rami quam. in prece- dentibus acutiores. * iv CONSPECTUS GENERUM. "argus III. AsrEROIDEZ. Capitula heterogama radiata vel disci- formia, vel radio deficiente homogama. — Anthere basi obtu- sse, subintegre. Styli rami complanati, appendiculati. Folia sepissime alterna. Receptaculum ssepissime nudum. Corolle disci sepissime flavse, radii homochroms vel heterochromse. . Subtribus 1. Homochromeoc. Corolla $ dum adsint ligulate, iis disci concolores, sseepissime flavze. 91. Solidago. Ligule paucs. lInvoluerum angustum rarius latiusculum. Styli appendices sspius lanceolati. Achesenia obóvoidea vel oblonga. Pappi setze copiose, tenues, parum inzquales. Capitula fageiculata vel scorpioideo-paniculata, rarius corymbosa. Subtribus 2. Grangeinec. Corolla ? 2-co-seriate, discum non excedentes, apice 2-dentate vel campanulate. Pappus 9 vel e pilis setisve brevissimis caducissimis vel e basi cartilaginea vel subpaleacea oriundus. Ínvolucri bractez subzquales vel exteriores foliacee. Herbs. Capitula ssepius parva. 104. Dichrocephala. Receptaculum intra marginem subcon- iractum, elevatum, disco subplano. Achsmnia erostria, com- pressa, nervo marginata. 105. Cyathocline. Receptaculum intra marginem subcontrac- tum, elevatum, disco concavo. Achsnia erostria, oblonga, immarginata. 106. Grangea. Receptaculum convexum vel conicum nudum. Achrenia apice in annulum vel collum margine dentatum vel subsetosum producta. Herbs ssepius prostrate, ramosse, villosse. Subtribus 3. Bellidee. Corolle 9 ligulate ligula patente, albse vel versicolores nec flave. Pappus O0 vel breviter coronifor- mis vel ad annulum pilorum brevissimorum vel ad setas per- paucas caducissimas reductus. * [igule ssepius 2-co-seriatse parvse. 111. Myriactis. Involucrum latum, bracteis pauci-seriatis am- gustis. Ligule 2-co-seriate, parvse. Achsenia erostria vel bre- vissime rostrata, oleosa. Pappus O0. Caulis erectus, ramosus. 112. Rhynchospermum. Involucri bractese pauciseriate, im- bricatz. Ligule 2-co-seriate, breves latz. Achszenia rostrata. Pappi set; paucse caducissim: vel 9. Caules rigide ramosi. 113. Lagenophora. Involucrum latum, bracteis suh-2-seriatis