954 LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J.D. Hooker.) ` [Drachyactis. 
sparingly silky; pappus scanty, } in. long, reddish.—In luxuriant specimens the 
leaves are 2-3 by 1-1} in. and very membranous. 
3. B. robusta, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. under t. 1106; stout, annual, 
glandular-pubescent, erect, branched, leaves obovate toothed narrowed into a 
short petiole, receptacle broad. Conyza pubescens, DC. Prodr. v. 381. 
Western Hrmaraya, alt. 4—-14,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon and Gurwhal, 
Falconer, Edgeworth, Se, — WxsrERN "Tur, alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson, &c. 
Possibly only a large form of B. umbrosa, the heads are j in. diam., but the 
achenes and pappus are no longer. 
22. ERIG ERON, Linn. 
Characters of AsTER, but ray-flowers usually in several rows with very 
slender short or long ligules, and the achenes narrower. Pappus often double, 
the outer of a few short hairs or bristles.— DrsrRIB. Species about 100, chiefly 
natives of N. Temp. regions, extremely variable and difficult to discriminate 
from one another, and certain of them from species of Aster. 
E. linifolius, Willd. (Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 169), is found as an escape, or a garden 
weed, in the Punjab and elsewhere, It is a stout erect hirsute herb, with leafy stem 
and branches, the leaves are close-set, 2-2} by 1-J in., serrated here and there, the 
numerous peduneled heads are subpaniculate and 3-2 in. in diam. It is the Conyza 
angustifolia of Thwaites Herb. (C. P. 3928) but not of Hamilton. 
1, Species of the tropical region. 
1, E. canadensis, Linn.; Boiss. Fl. Orient. ii. 163; annual, very 
slender, much branched above, pubescent hirsute or nearly glabrous, leafy, 
leaves narrow linear or linear-lanceolate entire or toothed, heads 4—4 in. diam. 
peduncled in elongated branched panicles, invol. bracts narrow glabrate, ligules 
erect pink, pappus dirty white. 
Western HriMALAYA and the Down, ascending to 3000 ft. RouirkvNp, Thomson. 
—Disrris. All warm countries, assumed to be a native of N. America, 
Stem 6 1n.-3 ft. and branches erect, more slender than in any other Indian species, 
and the heads smaller. Jnvol. bracts acuminate; ligules pale rosy or purplish, 
scarcely exceeding the pappus. Achenes A in. narrow, flat, nearly glabrous; pappus 
gin. 
2. E. asteroides, Roxb. FI Ind. iii. 432 ; pubescent or villous, branched, 
radical leaves obovate petioled cauline obovate or oblong j-amplexicaul all 
toothed or lobulate, heads ł}-ġ in. peduncled solitary or subcorymbose, ligules 
capillary blue rather longer than the reddish or dirty white pappus. Wall. Cat. 
8052 A. E. hispidum, DC. in Wight Contrib. 9; Prodr. v. 292; Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 54. E. sublyratum, Roxb. in DC. l. l ee: Clarke l. c. 55, 301. 
E. hirsutum, Wall. Cat. 2976. E. egyptiacum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 
ii. 193. Conyza graveolens, Wall. Cat. 3106. C. ægyptiaca, Herb. Ind. Or. 
Hf. § T., not of Ait. O. Jerdoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 62. 
Tnorrcarn Hiwarava ; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. H. 
Benoa and the WESTERN PENINSULA. 
A coarse annual, 1-2 ft. high, erect, or in a dwarf state decumbent, closely re- 
sembling Conyza egyptiaca,  Cauline-leaves 4-1 in., numerous. Jnvol. bracts 1-2- 
seriate, very narrow with hair points, much shorter than the pappus. Achenes very 
minute, zg in., nearly glabrous, flat, pale.— Blumea pubiflora, under which Roxburgh's 
E. asteroides is quoted hy DC. as a synonym, appears from the description to bea true 
Blumea, but of Wallieh's 2975 Erigeron asteroides, Roxb. also quoted under the same 
