268 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Blumea. 
Secr. VI. Heads very numerous, large or small, forming narrow or broad 
terminal branched corymbs or panicles.—Shrubs or small trees (except B. 
chinensis and obovata, sometimes climbing); leaves very large, 8-18 in. long ; 
pappus white or red. 
* Pappus white, 
26. B. chinensis, DC. Prodr. v. 444; scandent, quite glabrous, leaves 
shortly petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate glandularly subserrate coriaceous, 
heads } in, clustered on the short distant branches of a long terminal pubescent 
panicle, invol. bracts puberulous outer short obtuse, recept. densely hirsute, [e] 
corolla-lobes hairy, achenes strongly lO-ribbed hairy. B. riparia, DC. Le.; 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 85. Oonyza chinensis, Linn.; Blume Bijd. 898. C. riparia, 
Blume, lc. 899. C. longispina, Zoll. & Morr. Syst. Verg. 191. C. serici-vestita, 
Wall. Cat, 2996 B. Baccharis nitida, Wall, Cat. 3048. 
Eastern Himaraya; Sikkim and Bhotan, alt, 2-4000 ft. Assam, and Kuasta Mrs., 
J. D. H. & T. T. Penane, Wallich, &e.—Drsrrin. Java, S. China. 
Branches terete, grooved, flexuous. Leaves green; petiole slender, $3 in. Invo- 
lucre quite unlike any other species; the outer- bracts very short, coriaceous and 
obtuse; inner long and thin. Pappus white. 
27. B. obovata, DC. Prodr. v. 446; herbaceous, stem and panicle 
softly densely villous, leaves narrowed into a short petiole obovate-lanceolate 
acute or acuminate faintly or coarsely toothed membranous glabrous above 
tomentose beneath, heads very few 2 in. diam. on simple or branched peduncles 
at the end of a very long almost naked branch, invol. bracts villous very many 
slender and shining, recept. with a very few hairs, D corolla lobes glandular, 
achenes unripe. Conyza obovata, Wall. Cat. 3022. 
NiPar, Wallich. 
Known only from Wallich’s specimens. Its herbaceous character would bring it 
under the first division of the genus, but the large head habit and foliage are that of 
this; pappus quite white. 
28. B. sikkimensis, Hook. f. ; branches stout glabrous, leaves 8-12 in. 
elliptic-lanceolate narrowed into a petiole acuminate obtusely subserrate glabrous 
membranous, heads % in. on slender peduncles loosely clustered at the ends of 
the slender branches of a large pubescent panicle, invol. bracts puberulous very 
narrow revolute in age, recept. broad glabrous, D corolla lobes vdd t, achenes 
ribbed silky, pappus dirty white. 
Srxxim HIMALAYA ; alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. 
Probably climbing, branches grooved as in B. chinensis. 
' 29. B. procera, DC. Prodr. v. 445; villous above or tomentose, branches 
long stout, leaves 5-8 in. sessile obovate-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate 
coarsely irregularly toothed glabrous or hirsute beneath base cordate, heads $ in. 
in dense (rarely loose) compound clusters on the woolly branches of an elongate 
anicle, invol. bracts silky outer short acute coriaceous, recept. narrow glabrous, 
la of tj corolla very hairy, achenes ribbed shortly silky, pappus very white. 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 86. B. semivestita, DC. l c. Conyza procera and semi- 
vestita, Wall. Cat. 3050, 2996 A. C. repanda, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 431. 
Tropica Himaraya; from Nipal eastwards, ascending in Sikkim and the Kuasta 
Mrs. to 5000 ft. Assam, Peau, TENAssERIM, MARTABAN, BIRMA. 
The cordate narrowed base of the large leaves is a good character of this species, 
which grows to 6 ft. high. I have not quoted Kurz, who (4s. Soc. Journ. 1877, ii. 
189) considers procera to be a var. of macrophylla. Clarke believes that Kurz’s 
macrophylla has red pappus, and that his procera is Blume's confusa. 
