422 71. COMPOSITE: INULOIDEjE. 



8. Blumea sericans, Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 262. 

 Blumea barbata, var. £ sericans, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlvi. 2 



(1877), p- 188. 



Blumea hieracifolia, Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 178, var. holosencea. 



Fobmosa: west coast (Wilford, 356!); Hongkong (Cham- 

 pion ! Wright !) ; Kwangsj (Wenyon !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 

 Chittagong, Birma, and Martaban. 



9. Blumea Wightiana, DC. in Wight Contrib. Ind. Bot. p. 14; 

 Prodr. v. p. 435 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 178 ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. iii. p. 261. 



Hongkong (Harland !). Herb. Kew. 



Tropical Asia, Africa and Australia. 



1. Laggera alata, Schultz-Bip. ; Clarke, Contp. Ind. p. 91; 

 Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. p. 271. 



Blumea alata, DC. Prodr. v. p. 448 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 177; Seem. 

 Bot. Voy. * Herald; p. 387 ; Wight, Ic. PI Ind. Or. t. 1 101. 



Fokien : Ainoy interior (Sivinhoe !) ; HurEH: Ichang and 

 immediate neighbourhood (A. Henry, 3228!); Hongkong (See- 

 inann ! Hance, 304 !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Widely spread in tropical Asia, Africa and Madagascar. 



1. Pluchea indica, Less, in Linncea, 1831, p. 150; DC. Prodr. 

 v. p. 451 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 179; Hook.f.FL Brit. Ind. iii. 

 p. 272 ; Wight, III. Ind. PI. t. 131. 



Conyza indica, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. p. 58, et in Journ. de Bot. Hierh 

 i. p. 104. 



Fobmosa (Oldham, 289!); Kwangtung (Tatel), Whampoa 

 (Hance, 78 !) ; Hongkong (Wright \). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



India and Malaya. 



[Pluchea hirsuta, Less. (LinnaBa, vi. p. 150), syn. Conyza 

 hirsuta, Linn. (Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 496), and Pluchea Dio- 

 scoridis, DC., syn. Baccharis JDioscoridis, Linn. (Lour. Fl. 

 Cochinch. p. 494), are recorded from China by Loureiro, but no 

 doubt erroneously.] 



2. Pluchea? pteropoda, Hemsl, n. sp. (Plate XL) 



Herba, ut videtur, procumbens, subcarnosa, undique glabra, 

 caulibus brevibus. Folia obovato-spathulata, 1-1| poll, longa, 

 grosse paucidentata, deorsum attenuata. Capitula discoidea, 



