Blumea.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) 263 
more or less toothed glabrous, heads + in. in dense axillary globose clusters 
round the branches at the leaf axils and terminal, invol. bracts linear acute 
white woolly, recept. and unripe achenes puberulous. 
Prov; Prome, M:Clelland. 'TENAssERIM and Merctt, Griffith, Helfer. 
The clusters of heads resemble those of Altenanthera nodiflora. 
10. B. lacera, DC. Prodr. v. 436; hairy villous or glandular, rarely 
glabrescent, stem erect simple or branched very leafy, leaves petioled obovate 
toothed or serrate rarely lobulate, heads 1 in. in short axillary cymes and 
collected into terminal spiciform panicles rarely corymbose, invol. bracts narrow 
acuminate hairy, recept. glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of Ẹ nearly glabrous, 
achenes sub- 4-gonous not ribbed glabrate. Clarke Comp. Ind. 76. B. Musra, 
DC. l.c. 435; Deless. Ic, Sel. iv. t. 93. D leptoclada, Dalz. § Gibs. Bomb. FI. 
125, not of DC. B. villosa, Schultz-Bip. in Pl. Hohenack. n. 2a. Conyza 
lacera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 428; Wall. Cat. 3082. O. thyrsiflora, villosa and 
Musra, Ham.; Wall. Cat. sub 3082, 3083, 3095. C. lactuceefolia, DC. l. c. 435; 
Wall. Cat. 3088 in part ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 180, t. 59, f. 1. 
Throughout the plains of Inp1a, from the N.W. ascending to 2000 ft. in the 
Himalaya, to Travancore and Singapore, and in CEvrow.—DisrRm. Malay Islds., 
China, Tropieal Africa. 
It is very diffieult to separate this in the Herbarium from Z. Wightiana (which 
see), it is even more variable; when living, the yellow flowers at once distinguish it. 
The smell and glabrous receptacle should distinguish it from laciniata. but the latter 
character is very difficult to see in the last-named plant. Smells strongly of 
turpentine (Roxburgh). 
Var. glandulosa; whole plant more or less glandular. B. glandulosa, DC. in 
Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. 438. D. Heyneana, DOC. l. e. 15 and 441. B. trigona, 
DC. l.c. 437. Conyza Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 3089. ? B. napifolia, DC. l. c. 440. 
Conyza napifolia, Wall. Cat. 3075 (heads small) This passes into C. membranacea, 
var. mujor. 
Var. cinerascens; hoary or clothed with soft white pubescence, leaves obovate 
often simple petioled and toothed as in B. lacera, corymbs often effuse, receptacle pube- 
rulous. B. cinerascens, DC. Prodr. v. 438. B. runcinata, Wall. Cat. 3087 B.—Hot 
valleys of the Himalaya from Nipal to Bhotan. 
1l. B. hieracifolia, DC. in Wight Contrib. 15; Prodr. v. 442 ; tomen- 
` tose villous or copiously woolly or silky, stem usually robust and simple some- 
times scape-like, lower leaves elliptic or oblong petioled serrate or toothed upper 
sessile often entire, heads }—3 in. diam. more or less fascicled or spiked forming 
elongate panieles rarely corymbose, invol. bracts lanceolate acuminate, receptacle 
glabrous, corolla yellow lobes of  glabrate, achenes hairy. Wight. Ic. t. 1099; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 82; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc, i877, ii. 188. Erigeron 
hieracifolia, Don Prodr. 172. Conyza hieracifolia, Spreng. Syst. iii. 524, 
Throughout the hilly parts of IxprA, from the outer Himalaya in Kumaon east- 
wards and southwards to the Nicuerry Mrs. and Martapan.—Distrip. Java. 
The robust habit of the larger form, and scapigerous habit of the smaller, are 
amongst the best characters of this most variable plant. A form (Conyza natans, 
Herb. Ham.) floats on tanks in Bengal.—See also 23. B. crinita and 25. flexuosa. 
Var. 1. typica; simple or sparingly branched, often scapigerous, leaves oblong 
crenulate or with small teeth silkily villous beneath, heads in a dense terminal cluster 
or spike. 
Van. 2. macrostachya; tall, robust, panieulately branched above, leaves with 
spreading hairs beneath, heads in large clusters at the ends of the branches. Var. 
evolutior, Clarkel.c. B. macrostachya and B. cernua, DC. l.c. 442 and 436. Conyza 
macrostachya «nd nutans, Wall. Cat. 3053, 3080. 
Var. 3. Hamiltoni; small, often clothed with close buff or white cottony tomentum, 
