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nerves on both surfaces. Heads longer than broad; invol. contracted at the mouth, 
outer bracts hoary. 
6. P. arguta, Boiss. Diagn. Ser. ii.3, p. 5; shrubby, glandular-pubescent, 
leaves sessile oblanceolate or obovate pungent coarsely serrate or lobulate 
base auricled or not, heads peduncled solitary or few not or hardly corymbose, 
invol. bracts subulate-lanceolate rigid. P. frutescens, Benth. in Hook. Ic. Pl. 
xii. t. 1157. Conyza odontophylla, Boiss. Fl. Orient. ii. 217. Laggera arida, 
Clarke Comp. Ind. 92. 
Scinp, Stocks; Boogta hills, Vicary. Punsan, Aitchison.—DrsrRrs. Beluchistan. 
A stout branched shrub, succulent when near the sea. Leaves 1-11 in., very 
variable in breadth, from 3-4 in. Heads 4-3 in. diam., quite different from those of 
the preceding species, both as to structure and arrangement. 
7. P. linearifolia, Clarke Comp. Ind. 95; annual, scaberulous, leaves 
sessile very long linear rigid coriaceous margins recurved toothed, heads 
clustered at the ends of the long branches of the corymb, outer invol. bracts 
rounded. 
Assam, Masters, Musui at Jingsha, on the Karam in sandy places, banks of the 
Lohit below the Dihong (and ? Knuasra Mrs.), Griffith. 
Stem apparently 2-3 ft., simple below, slender or stout, sometimes as thick as the 
little finger, corymbosely branched above. Leaves 5-8 by 1-4 in., sessile by a broad 
base, midrib very stout, nerves very obscure. Corymb very scabrid, branches naked, 
stiff, erecto-patent. Heads } in. diam. ; invol. bracts scaberulous. Achenes not seen; 
pappus snow-white.—This is a very curious plant, clearly annual, and differing wholly 
in habit from the preceding but agreeing in the heads and flowers. A ticket with 
“Khasia” on it is amongst Griffith's specimens, but no other collector has found it 
there, and the ticket is probably misplaced. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES, 
P. EUPATORIOIDES, Kurz For. Fl. ii. 575; Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 191; has not 
been found hitherto within the British border, it is a viscid Siamese shrub, with 
petioled linear coarsely toothed leaves and corymbs of small heads with broad ovate- 
lanceolate invol. bracts. 
209, NANOTHADMNUS, Thoms. 
A small rigid woolly herb. Leaves alternate, acutely serrate. Heads small, 
subsessile, subterminal and axillary, heterogamous, disciform ; outer fl. 1-4, 9, 
(rarely 0), filiform, 2-3-toothed, fertile; disk-fl. 5, few, fertile, tube slender, 
limb campanulate sub-2-lipped, outer lip 4-lobed, inner free to the base. 
Involucre ovoid; bracts oo-seriate, lanceolate, dry, inner sub-scarious, outer 
shorter hispid ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles mucro- 
nate or shortly tailed. Style-arms of Y filiform. -Achenes obovoid, tip rounded, 
ribs 5-8 slender; pappus 0 or a minutely 5-toothed crown. 
N. sericeus, Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soc, ix. 942, t. 3; Clarke Comp. 
Ind. 96. 
The Concay, on dry hills, Dalzell, Ee, 
Root stout, fusiform, woody, annual? Stems very many from the root, decumbent 
or suberect and ascending, 6-8 in. long, pale, rigid. Leaves 4-2 in., lanceolate, sessile 
or contracted into a petiole, rigid, pungent and with irregular pungent teeth, strongly 
nerved and reticulate. Heads 4 in., in dense clusters.— This curious plant bears some 
resemblance to a Blumea of the oxyodonta group in habit and foliage. 
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