Blumea. | LXXVII. composir#. (J. D. Hooker.) | 267 
posed in elongated spikes racemes or contracted panicles——Herbs with long 
simple or sparingly branched grooved erect or flexuous stems; leaves 1-3 in., 
sessile or shortly petioled, glabrous beneath or silky or tomentose, sparingly 
toothed ; pappus white.—Some forms of B. Aieracifolia belong here, perhaps 
also B. chinensis. 
22. B. malabarica, Hook. f.; pubescent, branches slender elongate 
flexuous, leaves subsessile membranous linear-oblong acute distantly serrate 
slightly hairy beneath, heads } in. diam. pubescent in small axillary sessile or 
peduncled clusters, recept. broad pubescent, achenes strongly ribbed nearly 
glabrous. 
Canara and Marazam, Ritchie; Bababoodan Hills, Law. 
This appears a very distinet species, the leaves are membranous, and have a 
distinet short slender petiole, quite unlike that formed by the narrowed bases of the 
leaves; it is possibly a scandent species. 
23. B. crinita, Arn. Pugill. 30; DC. Prodr. vii. 283; pubescent hirsute 
or villous, stem elongate slender or stout flexuous, leaves MEUS rigid sessile 
obovate-oblong acute sharply finely or coarsely toothed scabrid above glabrate 
or tomentose beneath, heads 3-3 in. diam. woolly or villous sessile in small 
sessile or long peduncled clusters usually forming an elongate sparse panicle, 
receptacle and corolla lobes of % glabrous, achenes ribbed glabrous, pappus 
white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 84. 
Creton: central province, Adam's Peak and Neuera Ellia, Walker, Ae, 
The long brown often flexuous stems, and hard uniform toothed sessile leaves, 
usually rounded at the base, and the glabrous achenes distinguish this from B. hiera- 
cifolia, to which it is closely allied. 
24. B. Clarkei, Hook. f.; stem simple elongate flexuous pubescent or 
tomentose, leaves shortly petioled 2-3 in. obovate or oblanceolate accuminate 
toothed pubescent or villous beneath, heads 3-4 in. diam. sessile and axillary or 
E in axillary clusters forming very narrow elongate panicles, invol. 
racts slender, receptacle broad pubescent, corolla yellow, lobes of 5 glandular, 
achenes obscurely silky, pappus white. B. hieracifolia, Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. $ T. 
Srxxm Hrwaraya, alt. L-2000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. Cacuar, Keenan. Mxnavr, 
Griffith. 
This has quite simple stems, and is intermediate in habit between the larger forms 
of hieracifolia and malabarica. It agrees in many points with De Candolle's B. 
elongata (Prodr. v. 445), founded ou Wallich’s Conyza elongata, Cat. 3078, of which 
there is no specimen in Wallich’s Herbarium, but the receptacle of that plant is 
described as glabrous, and it is a native of Penang. 
25. B. flexuosa, Clarke Comp. Ind. 86; tall, robust, stem much branched 
leafy clothed with soft spreading hairs, leaves 3-5 in. petioled elliptic-lanceolate 
acuminate and pungent clothed beneath with long soft silky or spreading hairs. 
or glabrate acutely irregularly toothed, heads ł in. in large panicled clusters 
rarely separately peduncled and cymose, invol. bracts broad pubescent, receptacle 
nearly pitted, corolla yellow, lobes of D hairy, pappus white. B. hieracifolia, 
var. Thwaites Enum. 163. 
Nenn Mrs. ; Sisparah, Wight. Cryton ; Neuera Ellia, Gardner. 
I separate this from the larger forms of B. hieracifolia with great reluctance, 
especially as Thwaites united the Ceylon specimens with that plant. Both forms. 
have heads sometimes all pedicelled, and forming a loose open cyme, as in the follow- 
ing section. The receptacle is indistinctly pubescent. 
Var. zeylanica; leaves from glabrate to densely silkily villous beneath, heads 
smaller. ; 
Var. peninsularis ; leaves softly loosely hairy beneath. 
