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15. B. membranacea, DC. Prodr. v. 440; pubescent, tall, slender, 
much branched, leaves and heads and flowers as in B. virens but more or less 
softly pubescent, and the branches of the panicle glandular and with spreading 
hairs. B. hymenophylla, DC. l. c. 440. Conyza membranacea and hymeno- 
phylla, Wall. Cat. 3019, 3038. C. virens, Wall. Cat. 3037 D. C. diffusa, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 429. 
Common throughout IxprA.—DisrRrs. Malay Islds. 
This may be a pubescent and glandular form of B. virens. The prevalent forms 
may be approximately limited as follows. 
Van. 1. typica ; tall, pubescent, much branched, leaves large membranous, heads 
many panicled. 
Var. 2. muralis; glandular-hairy, stem usually simple slender, leaves elliptic- 
ovate or lanceolate toothed or serrulate very membranous, invol. bracts rigid coloured 
like those of a Vernonia. B. muralis, DC. Prodr. v. 440; Dalz. d Gibs. Bomb. FI. 
125. Conyza muralis, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 3077.—Though in extreme forms the heads 
of this look so different from those of membranacea, they are connected by numerous 
intermediates. 
Var. 3. gracilis; heads subsolitary or racemose on the long slender branches. B. 
gracilis, DC. Prodr. v. 443. Conyza gracilis, Herb. Heyne in Wall. Cat. 3064. 
Taong-Dong in Ava, Wallich. Madras, Herb. G. Thomson.—This approaches B. 
glomerata in habit, and may be referable to it, but the receptacle is glabrous. 
Van. 4. Gardneri; glabrous or puberulous, erect, bright green, corymbosely or 
paniculately branched and glandular, lower leaves 2-4 in. lyrate or runcinate-toothed, 
upper lanceolate sinuate-toothed, heads } in, diam. on slender peduncles, invol. bracts 
puberulous. B. hymenophylla, Herb. Wt. (Kew Distrib. 1577). B. glandulosa, 
Thwaites Enum.—Nilgherry Mts., Wight, Gardner ` Ceylon, Walker, Ee, 
Var. 5. viscosula, covered with lax spreading long simple and glandular hairs, 
heads few at the ends of the few long branches of the panicle. B. viscosula, DC. 
Prodr. v. 441. B. lactuceefolia, var. nudipes, Kurz in Journ. As, Soc. 1877, ii. 187. 
—Prome, Wallich; Pegu, Gomez, Kurz; Rangoon, Maclelland. 
Var. 6. subsimplex ` anther-cells without tails, their bases connate with the fila- 
ments. B. paucifolia and subsimplex, DC. Prodr. v. 441. Conyza subsimplex, Wall. 
Cat. 3003. ©. spiridens, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 44, excl. syn.— This is technically a 
Laggera, but I agree with Kurz in regarding it as a sexual form of membranacea, 
from which it differs solely by the anthers; it represents closely both the larger and 
smaller forms of membranacea, and is widely distributed. 
16. B. Kingii, Clarke mss.; pubescent and glandular above, stem strict 
erect simple glabrate below, leaves 3-5 in. lower petioled runcinate or lyrate and 
unequally toothed rather membranous, heads } in. all peduncled in open panicles 
with many divaricate bracteate branches, invol. bracts linear rigid green puberu- 
lous, recept. glabrous deeply pitted, achenes 10-ribbed puberulous. 
Marwar; Mt. Aboo, King. 
This again is closely allied to B. virens, and has similar habit and foliage, but the 
panicle is more robust and branched, and the invol. bracts are rigid like those of a 
Vernonia. 
17. B. Jacquemontii, Hook. f.; villous with spreading soft hairs, 
stem stout erect simple below, leaves 3-5 in. lower petioled obovate-lanceo- 
late coarsely irregularly serrate upper sessile toothed or lacerate, heads 3 in. all 
peduncled in open panicles with divaricating branches and pedicels, invol. bracts 
numerous subulate-lanceolate rigid coloured poevibus recept. pubescent, 
achenes 8-10-ribbed finely silky. B. obovata? Clarke Comp. Ind. 72 (not 
of DC.) 
Bxuan, on Parusnath, alt. 4000 ft., J. D. H., &c, CENTRAL INDIA, Jacquemont 
(n. 1054). NizanennY Mrs., Clarke (Comp. Ind. 77); Hort. Bot. Cale., Herb. Griffith. 
A large coarse species, with the paniculate inflorescence sometimes 18 in. across, 
yellow flowers and coloured invol. scales like those of a Vernonia, 
