Blumea. | LXXVIII. composirz. (J. D. Hooker)  . 261 
2. B. bifoliata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. v. 484; often pro- 
strate with ascending branches, pubescent villous or glabrate, branched from 
the base, leaves 1—3 in. sessile obovate or oblong serrate obtuse or acute 2 upper- 
most on the branches sub-opposite, heads i—j in. solitary on the branchlets 
eduncled, inner invol. bracts acuminate, receptacle glabrous, corolla yellow, 
obes of 2 hairy, achenes narrowly oblong with 4—5 hairy angles, pappus white. 
Dalz. E Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 145; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 186; Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 72. B. amplectens, Thwaites Enum. 163 in part (O.P. 3523). B. 
oligocephala, DC. in Wight Contrib. 13; Prodr. v. 434. B. anagallidifolia, DC. 
Prodr. v. 434. Conyza bifoliata, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 431. O. foliolosa, 
anagallidifolia and amplexicaulis, Wall. Cat. 3092, 3098, 3104. 
Bexcar, the Western PrxiNsvrA, Birma, the Maray PexiNsurLA and CEYLON. 
Best distinguished from B. amplectens by the serrate (not dentate) leaves, the two 
upper of which on each branch are usually opposite, and by the tips of the invol. 
bracts not being hair-pointed. B. anagallidifolia is a very small leaved state. 
Secr. II. Heads many, villous, small, 1-3 in. diam. (3-3 in B. hieractfolia), 
more or less clustered and forming dense oblong spikes or contracted panicles at 
the top of the stem, exceptionally arranged in loose open corymbs.—Erect or 
ascending stout or slender herbs, usually very villous silky or woolly, often 
glandular, rarely 2 ft. high. Leaves toothed or serrate, seldom deeply gashed. 
Pappus white. (Corymbs often loose in B. barbata, and sometimes in all the 
others. Branches prostrate in B. nodiflora. See B. Belangeriana in Sect. IV.) 
3. B. Wightiana, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. v. 455; villous 
silky hairy or woolly, sometimes glandular, stem erect subsimple very leafy, 
leaves petioled obovate irregularly toothed or serrate, heads 4 in. collected into 
terminal spiciform dense (rarely open) cymes or panicles, invol. bracts narrow 
acuminate, receptacle glabrous, corolla purple, lobes of 2 glandular, achenes 
terete or 4-5-angled not ribbed sparsely hairy. Clarke Comp. Ind. 74; Kurz 
in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 186 (excl. syn. hymenophylla). B. trichophora, 
parvifolia and phyllostachya, DC. Prodr. 436, 437, 438. Conyza lactucæfolia, 
paniculata, bifoliata and Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 3088, in part, 3090 A., 3091, 
3093. Erigeron molle, Don Prodr. 172. 
Throughout the plains of Inp1a from the outer Himalaya and the Punjab east- 
wards and southwards; and in Cxvyrow, Birma and the Marayan PENINSULA.— 
Disrrie. Malay Islds., China, Australia, Tropical Africa. 
Similar to B. lacera, but easily distinguished by the small heads, purplish flowers, 
and hairy achenes. A very glabrous variety with large membranous long-petioled 
leaves, 4 by 1} in. from Rangoon may be the “B. hymenophylla, DC.," quoted by 
Kurz as a synonym of Wightiana, but which is not DC. e plant of that name. 
4. B. neilgherrensis, Hook. f.; densely softly villous and silky, stem 
simple stout erect or ascending, leaves 3-4 in. obovate or oblong-obovate sessile 
or narrowed into a petiole regularly sharply gland-toothed, heads } in. diam. 
very numerous in axillary clusters forming an oblong or rounded terminal spike 
or panicle, invol. bracts almost filiform softly silky, recept. glabrous, corolla 
purple, lobes of glabrous, achenes glabrous angled, pappus j in. white. 
NiraueRRY and Purnry Hirs, Wight, Gardner. 
This is a mountain plant, near Wightiana in its purple flowers, but has a denser 
inflorescence, larger head, glabrous achenes, and very regularly toothed leaves. Asin 
all Blumeas, the villosity or hairiness is a very inconstant charaeter; this plant is 
sometimes as silky as B. Belangeriana. 
5. B. subcapitata, DC. Prodr. v. 439; pubescent, sparsely villous 
upwards, stem slender simple, leaves denticulate radical long-petioled mem- 
branous obovate or elongate-obovate entire or serrately or subpinnatifidly lobed 
