Conyza. | Lxxvil. coMwPosrpE. (J. D. Hooker.) 259 
achenes about 2; in. puberulous, pappus j in. reddish. ©. absinthifolia, DC. in 
Wight Contrib. 16; Prodr. l. c. 383; Clarke Comp. Ind. 64; Dalz. & Gibs. 
Bomb, Fl. 124. C. pinnatifida, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61; Fl. Ind. iv. 430. 
Erigeron trisuleum and pinnatifidum, Don Prodr. 171,172. Blumea trisulca, 
DC. Le 440. Baccharis trifurcata, Trev. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xiii. 201, t. 13. 
SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 5000 ft. Kasia 
Mrs., alt. 2-6000 ft. Bemar and the Western Quarts to TRAvANCORE, Pereu and 
BrgMA.—DisTRrB. Eastern Africa. 
The excessively fastigiately branched and leafy habit of this species, and its 
minute heads, distinguish it from all others. 
7. C. adenocarpa, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 125; pubescent and scabrous, 
stem rather woody below, leaves linear or oblong i-amplexicaul entire or 
distantly toothed, heads } in. diam. in terminal few-fld. corymbs, invol. bracts 
lanceolate acute, achenes i. in. glandular and puberulous, pappus 4. in. reddish. 
The Western Deccan and the Concan, Da/zell; highest hills east of Bombay, 
Ritchie. ` 
Apparently shrubby below, branches 6-10 in. high. Leaves 1-2 in., usually 
rounded at the apex, broad and 2-lobed at the base. Heads like those of C. stricta. 
8. C. rufa, Wail. Cat. 3079; tomentose or villous, branched from the 
base, branches spreading or prostrate, leaves sessile obovate or oblong-obovate 
or linear-oblong coarsely toothed, heads subglobose j in. diam., invol. bracts 
broad ovate acute green with membranous margins, achenes j; in. pubescent 
with curled hairs, pappus 2 in. reddish shining very caducous as a whole. DC. 
Prodr. v. 984; Clarke Comp. Ind. 65. C. marginata, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. xx. 607. C. hirsuta, Wall. Cat. 3007 B. partly. 
Annual, corymbosely branched, branches 4-8 in. long. Leaves 1-2 in.—The 
broad invol. bracts with defined membranous margins distinguish this from all other 
Indian species. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
C. serrutata, Wall. of Clarke Comp. Ind. 64, is not the plant of Wallich, and is 
altogether doubtful. 
C. PATULA, Ait. Hort. Kew iii. 184; Miller Icon. t. 247; referred to as Cyanopis 
pubescens, in DC. Prodr. v. 69, is probably a Vernonia. See Eupatorium glabrum, 
Wall. Cat. 3283, ex Herb. Heyne (Decaneuron glabrum, DC. l.c. 67), of which there 
is no specimen in Wallich’s Herbarium. 
25. THESPIS, DC. 
A branched glabrous annual. Leaves alternate, toothed. Heads minute, 
globose, sessile in globose clusters on the branches of dichotomous cymes, 
heterogamous, disciform, yellow; outer fl. 9, many-seriate, often without 
corolla, fertile; disk.-fl. 9, few, regular, sterile, tube very short, limb narrowly 
campanulate 4-fid. Jnvolucre hemispheric; bracts broad, obtuse, herbaceous, 
sub-2-seriate ; receptacle flat or convex, naked. Anther-bases obtuse, entire or 
2-fid. Style-arms short, flattened, subacute. Achenes of 9 small, hardly 
ribbed ; pappus-hairs about 10, short, dilated. 
1. T. divaricata, DC. Prodr. v. 975 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 20; T. erecta, 
DC. Le: Clarke Comp. Ind. 65. Cotula sinapifolia, Roxb. in Wall. Cat. 
3237, G. 
Tnorrcar Himaraya; Nipal and Sikkim, Wallich, &e. Eastern BENGAL, Assam, 
St per, CACHAR, BIRMA and TENASSERIM. 
A variable weed from 8 in. to 2 ft. high, robust with spreading branches. Leaves 
sessile or narrowed into a petiole 3-11 in., obovate, toothed. Heads } in. diam. 
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