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of this species do not agree with those of any filiform, subulate, to 4 long; stigma simple,
known species ofthe genus from India. The tree acute at apex.
was identified as Syzygium neesianum Arn., an Specimens examined: india: Tamil Nadu,
endemic species ofSri Lanka (Ashton 1981). The Kanyakumari district: Kodayar (uppe—r)
present discovery is of great phytogeographical Manickam & Murugan XCH 12454; Kerala
MH
interest, and the specimens from Kodayar hills Idukki district: Meenmutti, Mohanan, ac—c.
are identical to the Sri Lankan specimen housed No. 151501; Quilon district, Naduvanoor
MH
in the Madras Herbarium (MH), Botanical Kadavu path, Mohanan Acc. No. 113376;
MH
Survey of India (Southern Circle), Coimbatore. Quilon district: wayto Thenmalai, Mohanan
A short description with illustration is provided Acc. No. 117379; Trivandrum district:
MH
to facilitate identification. Bonnacard, Mohanan Acc. no. 117381. sri
MH
Syzygium neesianum Am., L. Nova. Acta. lanka: 60885 (s.no. L.P. 735).
Phys: Med. Acad. Caes. Teop. Carol. Nat. Cur. Note: The specimens collected from Kerala
18: 335. 1836; Thw., Enum PI. Zeyl. 117: 1843; and kept in MH, are misidentified as Syzygium
Alston in Trimen, Handb. FI. Ceylon 6: 116. caryophyllatum (L.) Alston, but they belong to
&
1931; Ashton in Dassanayake Fosberg, Rev. S. neesianum Arn. due to the presence of leaves
Handb. FI. Ceylon 2: 442. 1981. Eugenia with sub-cordate base and, acuminate apex and
neesiana Wt., Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 533. 1843; Duthie calyx with 4 lobes.
in Hook.f., FI. Br. India 2: 493. 1879.
Small tree, to 6 m; branchlets terete, Acknowledgements
glabrous. Leaves opposite-decussate, oblong-
lanceolate, 5-8 x 2-3.5 cm, coriaceous, glabrous, We are grateful to the UGC for financial
chocolate brown when dry, base subacute to assistance. We thank Dr. R. Gopalan and Dr. V.
subcordate, margin entire, slightly recurved, apex Chelladurai for their suggestions and critical
obtusely acuminate; lateral nerves many, sub- evaluation ofthe manuscript. We are grateful to
mm mm
parallel; petiole 3 long, thick. Flowers 4 the Field Director, Kalakad-Mundanthurai Tiger
across, white, in terminal corymbose cymes, to Reserve, India for permission to undertake the
5 cm long; peduncle 3-10 mm long, terete; rachis field studies.
mm
4-angled; pedicel up to 2 long; bract
mm MURUGAN
inconspicuous. Calyx-tube up to 3 long, March 30, 2001 C.
MANICKAM
glabrous; lobes 4, short, obscure. Petals 4, V.S.
mm SUNDARESAN
orbicular, upto 2 long, calyptrate, fugaceous. V.
Stamens many, unequal, filaments filiform, Centrefor Biodiversity and Biotechnology
;
2-4 mm, cream; anthers ovate, c. 0.5 mm. Ovary St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous),
mm
inferior, globose, to 2 long, 2-loculed; 3-6 Palayamkottai 627 002,
ovules in each, with central axile placentae; style Tamil Nadu, India.
SOME NEW RECORDS OF ASTERACEAE FOR THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA
40.
While carrying out intensive plant alata (D. Don) Sch.-Bip. Ex. Oliver and Wedelia
explorations in southwestern Maharashtra, three glauca (Ort.) S.F. Blake. Genus Cyathocline
members of Family Asteraceae were collected, Cass, and genus Laggera Sch.-Bip. ex Koch, are
which on critical study were identified as represented by three species each and genus
Cyathocline manilaliana Raju and Raju, Laggera Wedelia Jacq. is represented by five species in
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India (Rao et al. 1988; Hajra et al. 1995a, b; its distribution to Maharashtra.
Prabhakar Raju et al 1999). Taxonomic note: The original author of
Wedelia glauca (Ort.) S.F. Blake, a the species referred his specimens to S.R. Yadav
member of Compositae-Heliantheae is a native (one of the authors), who confirmed that it was
ofCentral Argentina, Uruguay and extreme south an undescribed species. It differs from
ofBrazil. It is a well-known indigenous “weed” Cyathocline lutea Law ex Wight (yellow flowers)
in Central Argentina and declared as an in its pink-purple flowers and C. purpurea
agricultural pest. It is toxic to livestock when in (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) O. Kuntze in possessing
fruiting stage (Burkat and Carera 1953). It is white-woolly globose vegetative propagules on
poisonous for grazing cattle; in cows it causes stem bases, radical and cauline leaves and deeply
abortion of the foetus in a few hours after sagittate anther base with sharp auricles.
consumption. The symptoms are somewhat like Laggera alata (D. Don.) Sch.-Bip. Ex.
hydrocyanic acid poisoning (Bhattacharya et al. Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. 29: 94: 1873; Pant
1995). in Hajra et al. (ed.) FI. India 13: 148. 1995;
The voucher specimens are deposited in Cooke, FI. Pres. Bombay 2: 80. 1958 (Repr. Ed.)
the Herbarium of the Shivaji University, Erigeron alatum D. Don. Prodr. FI. Nepal.
Kolhapur (SUK). 171.1825. Blumea alata (D. Don) DC. Prodr. 5:
Cyathocline manilaliana Prabhakar Raju, 448. 1836; Hook.f. FI. Brit. India 3: 271.1881.
C. and R.R. Venkata Raju in Rheedea 9(2): 151- Erect, branched, stout herb, stem winged;
154. 1999. stems and branches clothed with glandular
Erect, aromatic herb; stems often pubescence. Leaves sessile, decurrent on stem
dichotomously branched from the base, forming entire wing, 2.5-10 x 1-3 cm, oblong,
glandular, pubescent. Leaves simple, radical and obtuse or subacute, serrate-dentate or rarely
cauline, cauline leaves alternate, sessile, entire, pubescent on both surfaces. Heads few,
uninerved from base, nerves prominent below; in leafy racemes, 1-1.5 cm in diameter; peduncles
puberulous and glandular on both surfaces, axillary, solitary, often drooping; bracteate.
coriaceous; uppermost ovate; lower spathulate Involucre campanulate; bracts many seriate, the
or oblong, lyrately lobed. Heads few, in terminal, outer lanceolate, acute, much shorter than inner,
compound corymbs, heterogamous, not rayed. pubescent outside, the innermost scarious,
Involucral bracts two seriate, shorterthan florets, subglabrous, linear, acuminate. Corolla of
often recurved, glandularhairy. Receptacles cup- bisexual florets purplish. Achenes dark brown,
like, glabrous. Female florets numerous, tubular, puberulous, faintly ribbed, appressedly hairy,
filiform, pink, densely glandular-pubescent, villous; pappus white.
&
3-lobed, pappus absent. Bisexual florets few, FS. Fr.: December-May.
pink-purple, thinly glandular-pubescent, 5-lobed. Specimen examined: Sardesai 1907.
Stamens 5; anthers sagittately auricled at the Distribution: Here and Panhala in
base, pappus absent. Kolhapur district.
&
FI. Fr.: December-April. Note: Earlier it was known from Assam,
Specimen examined: Salunkhe 1320. Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya
Locality: Yeralwadi in Satara district, Pradesh, Manipur, Orissa, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu
Maharashtra, India. and Uttar Pradesh.
Note: Earlier it was known only from the Wedelia glauca (Ort.) S.F. Blake, in
type locality: Pochera fields, Adilabad district, Contrib. Gray Herb. n. ser. 3(52): 39. 1917.
Andhra Pradesh State. The present report extends Pascalia glauca Orteg. Hort. Matr. Dec. 39. t.
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4. 1797; Bhattacharya etal., J Bombaynat. Hist Tirappur, Coimbatore from the State of Tamil
.
Soc. 92: 136-137. 1995. Nadu.
Perennial herb. Stem with longitudinal
striations, scabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, Acknowledgements
distichous, base narrow, apex acuminate,
generally 1-2 dentate in lower part of lamina. We thank Liliana Katinas, La Plata,
Heads solitary in the leaf axils, 1-1.5 cm in Argentina; the Head, Department of Botany,
diameter, heterogamous, radiate. Disc florets Shivaji University, Kolhapur, the Principal,
hermaphrodite, fertile, involucre hemispherical; Krishna Mahavidyalaya, Shivnagar, Rethare Bk.,
peduncles hairy; bracts 2-seriate; outer linear, District Satara, for facilities and the Botanical
shortly acuminate, acute or rounded at apex, Survey of India, Western Circle, Pune for
inner lanceolate, acuminate. Palea membranous, herbarium and library facilities.
folded, oblong-lanceolate, acute. Florets
bisexual; corolla yellow; ligulate in female November 15, 2001 C.B. SALUNKHE
flowers, 5-fid at apex. Style branched in the Krishna Mahavidyalaya Shivnagar,
,
appendix, hairy at the apex. Achenes obovoid, Rethare Bk., Satara 415 108,
more or less compressed, cuneate, ragulose or Maharashtra, India
.
glabrous, ray flattened above. Disc tetragonal, V.B. SHIMPALE
laterally compressed. Pappus minutely scaly, M.M. SARDESAI
YADAV
short. S.R.
&
FI Fr.: December-April. Department ofBotany,
Specimen examined: Shimpale 101. Shivaji University,
Distribution: Islampur in Sangli district. Kolhapur 416 004,
Note: Earlier it was known only from Maharashtra, India.
Refer :nces
Bhattacharya, A., M.C. Biswas & H.S. Debnath (1995): Rao, R.R., Hi. Chowdhery, P.K. Hajra, S. Kumar, P.C.
A new genus for India. J. Bombaynat. Hist. Soc. 92: Pant, B.D. Naithani, B.P. Uniyal, R. Mathur & S.K.
136-137. Mamgain (1988): Florae Indicae Enumeratio -
Burkat, A. & M.N. Carera (1953): Estudios Sobre Asteraceae. BSI, Calcutta.
&
Malezas Morphologia Vegetativa y Germinacion del Hajra, P.K., R.R. Rao, D.K. Singh B.P. Uniyal(1995a):
“Sunchillo” (Wedeliaglauca). Darwiniana, t. 10, No. FloraofIndia,Asteraceae(Anthelmideae-Heliantheae).
2: 113-144. BSI, Calcutta, pp vii. + 454.
Prabhakar Raju, C. & R.R. Venkata—Raju (1999): Hajra, P.K., R.R. Rao, D.K. Singh& B.P. Uniyal(1995b):
Cyathoclinemanilaliana(Asteraceae) anewspecies Flora ofIndia, Asteraceae (Inuleae-Vemonieae). BSI,
from Andhra Pradesh, India. Rheedea 9(2): 151-154. Calcutta, pp. vii + 411.
41. EMENDING OF AN ENDEMIC AND CRITICALLY ENDANGERED SPECIES
CINNAMOMUM WALA1WARENSE KOSTERM., FAMILY LAURACEAE,
OF KALAKAD-MUNDANTHURAI TIGER RESERVE, INDIA
(With one text-figure)
Kostermans (1983) described a new fruiting specimens (26252 & 26301, K, L)
species, Cinnamomum walaiwarense based on collected during July 1976 in the southern
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