71. COMPOSITE : ASTER0IDE3!. 419 



king (Faber !) ; Kwangtung : Lofaushan (Ford !) ; Hongkong 

 (Wilfordl Wright !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 

 A native of the Mediterranean region, now widely colonized. 



1. Microglossa albescens, Clarice, Comp. Ind. p. 59 ; Hook.f. 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 257 ; Bot. Mag. t. 6672. 



Amphirhapis albescens, DC. Prodr. v. p. 343. 

 Szechuen : Mount Omei at 5000 feet (Faber !). Herb. Kew. 

 Mountains of North India from Kishtwar to Sikkim and 

 Bhotan. 



2. Microglossa volubilis, DO. Prodr. v. p. 320 ; Clarke, Comp. 

 Ind. p. 57; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 257. 



Erigeron pyrifolius, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 176. 



Conyza pyrifolia, Lam. Encycl. ii. p. 89. 



China : witbout locality (Millett !) ; Kwangtung : without 

 locality (Tate I), Macao (Gallery \); Hongkong (Wilfordl). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Eastern India and Malaya, tropical Africa and Madagascar. 



1. Conyza aegyptiaca, Ait. Sort. Kew. iii. p. 183 ; BC. Prodr. 

 v. p. 382 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1878, p. 108 ; Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. iii. p. 258. 



Fokien : various localities near Amoy (Sampson Sf Hance, 

 1448, 7935 !) ; Formosa : Tamsui (Oldham, 247 !). Mus. Brit. ; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, and extending to Japan. 



2. Conyza japonica, Less. Syn. Comp. p. 204; BC. Prodr. v. 

 p. 383 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 258. 



Conyza veronicsefolia, Wall. Cat. n. 3005 ; DC. Prodr. v. p. 382 ; 

 Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 176; Henriques in Bolet. Soc. Brot. iii. p. 147. 



Formosa : Tamsui (Oldham, 248 S) ; Szechuen : Chung city 

 (Faber X); Kwangtung (Silva ex Henriques); Hongkong 

 (Wilfordl Wright I); Luchu Aechipelago (Wright I). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Afghanistan to the Khasia mountains and southward in 

 Malaya. 



3. Conyza lencodasys, Miq. in Journ. de Bot. Neerl. i. p. 103. 

 Kwangtung ? (Krone ex Miquel). 



From the description this does not appear to be a Conyza. 



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