272 LXXVIII. COMPOSITÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Pluchea. 
ovate, usually broad, dry, rigid ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, 
cells tailed. Style-arms of Y filiform, entire or 2-fid. Achenes small, 4-5- 
angled ; pappus hairs slender, 1-seriate, rigid, free or many and connate in the 
sterile achenes.—Drstris. About 30 species, tropical and subtropical. 
l. P. indica, Less.; DC. Prodr. v. 451; shrubby, glabrous or nearly so, 
leaves obovate or oblanceolate subserrate narrowed into the short petiole, heads 
. in compound terminal corymbs, outer invol. bracts broad tips rounded. Wight 
Ill, t. 191 (colour of fl. wrong); Clarke Comp. Ind. 93. P. foliolosa, DC. 
Prodr. v. 451. Conyza corymbosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 426; Wall. Cat. 3009. 
C. indica, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. ii. 58. Baccharis indica, Linn. 
Salt marshes, &c., from the SunpERBUNDs to Maracca and PgNANa.—DisTnRIn, 
Malay Islds., China. 
A low shrub. Leaves 1-2 in., obtuse acute or apiculate, often gland-dotted. 
Corymbs pubescent ; heads } in. diam.; flowers of disk $ 3; of ray 9, numerous. 
Achenes minute, ribbed, nearly glabrous; pappus scanty, white, spreading. 
2. P. ovalis, DC. Prodr. v. 450; shrubby, pubescent, branches winged, 
leaves sessile oblong or obovate-oblong coarsely toothed, heads in compound 
terminal corymbs, outer invol. bracts acute. Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 328. 
Baccharis ovalis, Pers. Synops. ii. 424. 
Draam: in the Salt Range, Aitehison.—Disrrin. N. Africa. 
A large shrub. Branches with broad green toothed and sinuate wings like Laggera 
pterodonta. Leaves 2-23 by $-1 in., tips rounded. Corymbs seaberulous ; heads } in. 
diam. Achenes (young) glabrous.—The wing may be an inconstant character. The 
specimens are poor, and it may prove a form of P. tomentosa. 
3. P. tomentosa, DC. i» Wight Contrib. 16; Prodr. v. 457 ; shrubby or 
tomentose, pubescent, branches not winged, leaves sessile broadly obovate base 
auricled coarsely toothed, heads in compound terminal corymbs, outer invol. 
bracts acute. Clarke Comp. Ind. 94. Conyza tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 3031. 
Uprrr Beneat, on the Ganges from Futtihpore to Cawnpore. CENTRAL INDIA, 
Scrinp and the Deccan to TRAVANCORE. : 
A more or less glandular shrub, 5 ft. high ( Dalzell). Leaves 11-2 in., often as 
broad, acute or obtuse. Corymbs and heads as in P. ovalis. Pappus reddish, 
4. P. Wallichiana, DC. Prodr. v. 451; shrubby, glandular-pubescent 
and scabrid, branches not winged, leaves sessile obovate-oblong faintly toothed, 
heads in compound corymbs, outer invol. bracts tomentose subacute. Dalz. $ 
Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 126 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 94. Conyza sessilifolia, Wall. Cat. 
3029. ©. Candolleana, Boiss. Fl. Orient. ii. 217. 
The Punsan, Falconer, Stewart. Scip, Stocks. GuzkRAT (* only one specimen 
seen in the whole country, perhaps not indigenous," Da/zel/).—Disrri. Beluchistan. 
A tall shrub. Leaves 1-2 in., variable in breadth, rigid, nerves raised on both 
surfaces. Heads very similar to those of tomentosa.—Wallich gives Srinuggur in 
Kamrup, as the habitat, but I suspect the specimen is one of Hamilton's and probably 
western, 
5. P. lanceolata, Oliv. FI. Trop. Afr. iii. 329; shrubby, hoary-pubes- 
cent, leaves sessile very coriaceous oblong or oblanceolate pungent quite entire 
strongly nerved, heads in compound corymbs, invol. bracts short rounded 
obtuse. Berthelotia lanceolata, DC. Prodr. v. 376; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 21; 
Boiss. Fl. Orient. ii. 218. Conyza lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 2991. 
Upper Bencar, at Cawnpore, Oupa, and westward to the Puxnsas and Scinp.— 
Distris. Affghanistan, Beluchistan, N. Africa. 
Branches rather slender. Leaves 1-2 in., pale when dry, with strong very oblique 
