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Laggera.] © xxvii. composirz. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 
Throughout NomrHERN Innia ; from the HiwAravA in Kumaon eastwards, ascend- 
ing to 6000 ft. in Sixkr« and Buoran; southwards to Benar and the GOLCONDAH 
Hus, Beddome in the west, and to Currraconc, Peau, Tavoy and PzeNawa in the 
east. 
Stem 6 in. to 3 ft., simple or corymbosely branched above, grooved. Leaves 1-3 
in., sometimes scaberulous, membranous. Heads on capillary peduncles; recept. 
glabrous; corolla yellow, lobes of $ glabrous; anthers sagittate. -Achenes most 
minute, glabrous. Pappus white. 
2. L. alata, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1340; robust, much 
branched, pubescent or tomentose, stem with entire wings, leaves oblong toothed 
sessile decurrent, heads $ in. diam. racemed on short axillary winged branches 
drooping in fruit, fl. purplish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 91. L. divaricata, Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr. iii. 525. Blumea alata, DC. Prodr. v. 448; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 
Fil. 125; Wight Ic. t. 1101. B. vernonioidea, DC. J. c. 447. Conyza alata, 
Roxb. Hort. Beng. 61; Fil. Ind. iii. 430. C. nutans, Blume Bijd. 896. O. 
cernua, Wall. Cat. 3012. Erigeron alatum, Don Prodr. 171. Vernonia Wight- 
iana, Wall. Cat. 2923 (not of Arnott). 
Tropica, Hmataya, alt. 1—5000 ft., from Simla eastwards to Srxxim, and south- 
wards in hilly districts ascending to 6000 ft. in the Nizauznnv Mrs., and to 7000 ft, 
in Cryton. Not found south of the Khasia Mts. and Birma in the east.—Disrrim. 
Java, China, Philippine Islds., Trop. Africa. 
A stout, leafy herb. Leaves 1-4 in., sometimes almost entire. Znvol. bracts many, 
outer short herbaceous often recurved, inner long straight. Achenes hairy ; pappus 
white. 
3. L. pterodonta, Benth. in Gen. Pl. ii. 290; much branched, glabrous 
or puberulous, stem with deeply toothed lobed or interrupted wings, leaves 
sessile oblanceolate toothed or pinnatifid at the base, heads % in. diam. on 
(usually) slender peduncles at the ends of the branches, fl. purple. Clarke 
Comp. Ind. 92. Blumea pterodonta, DC. in Wight Contrib. 16; Prodr. v. 448 ; 
Wight Ic. t. 1100. Oonyza cernua, Wall. Cat. 3012 B. Serratula polygona, 
A. Rich, Fl. Abyss. i. 437, t. 62. 
Tropica, Hrmaraya; from Simla, alt. 4000 ft. eastwards. Assam, BIRMA, 
Noppeg and Putyzy Mts.—Distris, Trop. Africa. 
A more slender and glabrous plant than L. alata, well distinguished by the re- 
markable wings of the stem, which are sometimes represented by a series of mem- 
branous vertical laminz 3-4 in. broad. Jnvol. bracts glabrous, rigid. 
4. L. aurita, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack.; rather slender, viscidly 
hirsute pubescent or villous, stem not winged, leaves small sessile or petioled 
oblanceolate toothed lobed cut or j-pinnatifid, heads 1-3 in. diam. in small 
lateral or terminal corymbs, flowers pink. Clarke Comp. Ind. 92. Blumea 
aurita, DC. Prodr. v. 449. B. guineensis, DC. l. e Conyza aurita, Linn. f. ; 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 428; Wall. Cat. 3069 ? and 3086; Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 216. 
Plains of India from the Punsas and Sctxp, eastwards and southwards to CHITTA- 
GONG, Brrma and Travancore.—Disrris, Tropical Africa. 
A well-marked species. The leaves are decurrent, but very shortly only. Jnvol. 
bracts slender, soft, villous.\—The whole plant has an odour of turpentine. 
28. PLUCHEA, Cass. 
Shrubs rarely herbs, tomentose or glutinous. Leaves alternate. Heads 
small, in terminal leafless corymbs or large and subsolitary, heterogamous, dis- 
ciform, white, yellow or lilac; outer fl. 9 , oo -seriate, fertile, filiform; disk-fl. 
D, few, sterile, tubular, limb 5-fid. Involucre ovoid or campanulate; bracts 
