264 LXXVII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Blumea. 
branches solitary or several from the base, leaves chiefly radical often almost entirely 
villously silky beneath, heads in spiked fascicles. B. Hamiltoni, DC. l c. 439. 
Gnaphalium Hamiltoni, Wall. Cat. 2938. Habit often that of Antennaria hyperborea, 
— Bee B. crinita, Arn., and Belangeriana, DC., which may be southern forms of this. 
12. B. angustifolia, Thwaites Enum. 165; glabrous or puberulous, 
stem erect slender subsimple, leaves 1-3 in. all linear-oblong or lanceolate 
subobtuse narrowed at the base quite entire or obscurely toothed, heads few all 
peduncled crowded or corymbose, peduncles tomentose or glabrous, invol. bracts 
linear-lanceolate pubescent or sparingly villous, recept. glabrous, achenes nearly 
glabrous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 81. 
CEYLON; central province, alt. 1-3000 ft., Moon, Thwaites. 
Stem 1 ft., procumbent, branched and rooting below. I have seen but few 
specimens, 
Secr. III. Heads many, small, 1-j in. diam., peduncled in open corymbs 
or panicles with often divaricate branches, rarely clustered,— Tall, erect, green 
m stem simple below, paniculately or corymbosely branched above, glabrous 
or glandular, rarely villous densely woolly or silky ; leaves, the lower especially, 
gashed or lacinate ; pappus white. 
13. B. laciniata, DC. Prodr. v. 436; erect, usually stout, pubescent or 
laxly tomentose, stem branched, leaves usually large niembranous runcinate 
lyrate or subpinnatifid and toothed, heads 4 in. diam. usually in broad open 
corymbs, invol. bracts lanceolate acuminate villous, recept. pubescent, corolla 
yellow, lobes of hairy, achenes ribbed silky, Clarke Comp. Ind. 78; Kurz 
An. Journ, As. Soc. 1877, ii. 187. B. runcinata and sonchifolia, DC. Le 488, 
Conyza sonchifolia and runcinata, Wall. Cut. 8085, 3087 A. ©. laciniata, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 427; Wall. Cat. 3100, 3084 B. 
TnorrcAn HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 4000 ft, in Sikkim. 
Assam, CacHan and the Kmasra Mrs., BEHAR and BENGAL; rare in the CoNcaw, 
SOUTHERN Jena and the MALAY PENINSULA.—DISTRIB. Malay Islds., China, Philip- 
ines. 
r Usually a taller plant than B. lacera, from which it is difficult to distinguish 
specimens with leaves more entire than usual, but it is usually more glabrous, and 
should have a pubescent receptacle ; this latter character is, however, very variable, 
evanescent in age, and at all times requires a high power to detect, Roxburgh says 
that this differs from B. lacera in having all the leaves laciniate, to which I suppose 
may be added its being scentless. The four following species are possibly all re- 
ducible to laciniata. 
14. E. virens, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. v. 439; quite glabrous, 
tall, slender, much branched, bright green, leaves membranous irregularly or 
sinuate-toothed lower petioled obovate lyrate or runcinate upper oblong small 
very numerous, heads j in. glabrous on capillary peduncles all in large open 
much branched panicles with small leaves on the ascending branches, invol, 
braets slender ciliolate, recept. very narrow glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of 
glandular, achenes 8-T0-ribbed with spreading hairs. Clarke Comp. Ind. 79 in 
part. B. lapsanoides, DC. l. c. 440. Conyza virens, Wall. Cat. 3037 A. B. C. 
Urrzn Assam, Griffith; Birma, Wallich; the Concan, Canara, and NILGHERRY 
Mrs., Wight, Se, 
The perfeetly glabrous habit distinguishes this from all other species; it some- 
times grows 4 ft. high with a stem as thick as the finger, but is generally smaller. 
The stem is grooved and green with a few more or less conspicuous yellow slender 
ribs. 
Var. minor; 6-12 in., stem simple slender, leaves long-petioled elliptie ovate or 
lanceolate toothed or serrulate very membranous. Travancore at Courtallam, Wight. 
Closely resembles B. membranacea, but the glabrous panicle distinguishes it. 
