262 LXXVIII. coMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Blumea, 
below the middle, cauline smaller petioled, heads 1—1 in. diam. solitary or 2-3- 
nate in the distant upper leaf-axils and forming a crowded oblong short terminal 
or cylindric contracted panicle, invol. bracts very slender glabrescent, receptacle 
glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of 5 glabrous, achenes nearly glabrous angled, 
pappus A in. white. Conyza subcapitata, Wall. Cat. 3056. 
Centrat and Eastern Himataya; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 1-5000 ft., 
d PS 
I retain this species contrary to Mr. Clarke's opinion (who referred it to B. lacera) 
with diffidence, my Sikkim specimens precisely accord with Wallieh's Nipal ones, and 
I find none of the forms of lacera at all like it. 
6. B. barbata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. v. 434; stem erect 
subsimple with very long hairs, leaves obovate or oblanceolate coarsely toothed 
or serrate silky beneath, heads } in. peduncled in short loose axillary and ter- 
minal cymes forming an elongate inflorescence, invol. bracts narrowly linear 
acuminate hairy, recept. glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of D glandular, achenes 
most minute 5-6-ribbed striate hairy above, pappus white. Kurz in Journ. As. 
Soc. 1877, ii. 188, evel. var. B; Clarke Comp. Ind. 73. Conyza barbata, Wall. 
Cat. 3099. 
Travancore; Pulney Mts, Wight. Cxyton, Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., 
Thwaites. 
Stem 4-10 in., stout or slender. Leaves 1-23 in. often narrowed into a petiole, 
membranous, hairy and subglandular above. Heads on slender peduncles. 
7. B. sericans, Hook. f.; tall, robust, stem simple erect, and leaves 
beneath densely silvery villous, leaves 2-3 in. lower petioled upper elongate- 
oblanceolate or linear acuminate minutely toothed, heads 4 in. sessile in crowded 
axillary and terminal clusters, recept. glabrous, corolla yellow lobes of % hairy, 
achenes silky, pappus white. B. barbata, var. 8 sericans, Kurz in Journ. As. 
Soc. 1877, ii. 188. 
CurrTAGONG ` on hills, alt. 500-1500 ft., Clarke. Birma and MARTABAN, Falconer, 
Kurz. 
This is quite unlike any other species in its long leaves, silvery silky pubescence 
and inflorescence, 
8. B. glomerata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 15; Prodr. l c. 443; pubescent 
or villous, stem erect usually slender, lower leaves petioled obovate serrate or 
lyrate-pinnatifid upor oblong incised, heads purple 4 in. diam, in small sessile 
axillary clusters all along the branches, invol. purs subulate-lanceolate villous, 
corolla yellow, lobes of & and recept, pubescent, achenes 8-10-ribbed glabrous 
or hairy. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 195. B. fasciculata, DC. Prodr. v. 442; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 81. B. fistulosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 187. B. 
holosericea, racemosa, spinellosa, gracilis, purpurea and leptoclada, DC. l. c. 442, 
443. B. holosericea and leptoclada, Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 125, 126. Conyza 
fistulosa, Roxb. FI. Ind. iii, 429. O. racemosa, sericea, glomerata, gracilis, 
purpurea and holosericea, Wall. Cat. 3002, 3021, 3055, 3064, 3076, 3103. 
Tropica HIMALAYA; from Kumaon to Sikkim ascending to 5000 ft., and through- 
out the plains to Assam, Brrma, Tenasserim and the Deccan (not in Ceylon).— 
Ins, China, Java, Philippine Islds. 
Very distinet in its normal state from the slender erect branehes with rounded 
axillary clusters of purple sessile heads, which become spiciform. Conyza sericea, 
Wall., has leaves very silky, especially beneath, and C. holosericea resembles it, but 
differs from the typical inflorescence of the species in the clusters of flowers being 
borne on axillary peduncles. See also B. membranacea, var. gracilis. 
9. B. nodiflora, Hook. f.; stem branched from the base, branches 2-4 
in. long very slender dichotomously forked, leaves 4-1 in. subsessile obovate 
