Blumea.] COMPOSIT (Harv.) 119 
equalling the disc, with bilabiate corollas, the lips oval, equal, entire ; 
dise-fl. funnel-shaped, 5-fid, hermaphrodite (but sterile). Recept. naked, 
flat. Jnvol. campanulate, biseriate. Anthers tailed. Style of disc-fl. 
bifid, with flattened branches. Achene oblong, sessile, beakless. Pap- 
pus of the ray-fl. none ; of the disc of a single, slender scale, palmato- 
sales at the summit, and of a few small, simple scales. DC. Prodr. 
5: PB. 402. 
S. African herbs. Leaves alternate, semi-amplexicaul, oblong or lanceolate, den- 
ticulate or undulate. Heads small, densely corymbulose or subfasciculate, the co- 
rymb in a panicle. Flowers white.—Name in honour of some botanist? 
1. D. Capensis (Thunb. Prodr. 177) ; leaves green above, canescent- 
tomentose beneath, subentire or here-and-there toothed. Thunb. Fl. Cap. 
p.665. DC.l.¢. 462. Selloa Capensis, Spr. Syst. 3, p. 496. 
Has. Wet spots in the Langekloof, Thunbd.! Eastern Districts, Kaffraria, and 
Natal, £. Z.! Drege! Bowker, Sanderson, Gerr. § M‘K. 268. Zey./ got, 902. (Herb. 
Th., D., Hk., Sd.) 
Stems from a perennial root, ascendent-erect, 6-18 inches high, leafy. Radical 
and lower leaves 5-6 inches long, lanceolate-oblong, mucronate, tapering to the 
base and subpetiolate ; cauline amplexicaul, oblong or ovate, sometimes subrunci- 
nate, the young ones cobwebby above, all white beneath. Corymbs pedunculate, 
very dense. Heads 14 lines across. Invol. and pedicels glandular. 
2. D. glabrata (DC.1.c.); leaves green on both sides, either minutely 
glandular-pubescent or glabrate, subentire or sharply toothed. 
Has. Klipplaat R., Zuureberge, &c., Drege! Uitenhage and Tambukiland, 2. Z./ 
(Herb. D., Hk., Sd.) 
Similar to the preceding, except in the pubescence. Perhaps a green variety ? 
XXXII BLUMEA, DC. 
Heads many-fl., heterogamous ; marginal fl. in many rows, female, 
very slender-filiform, truncate or 2~3-toothed; dise-fl. few (5-25), her- 
maphrodite, cylindrical, 5-toothed, scarcely dilated in the throat. Hecept. 
flat, mostly naked. Jnvol. in few rows, subimbricate, the scales linear, 
acuminate. Anthers with slender tails. Achenes terete. Pappus in one 
row, of many, roughish bristles. DC. Prodr. 5, p. 432. 
Herbs or half-shrubs, chiefly from tropical Asia, a few African. Lvs. alternate, 
mostly villous. Heads panicled or laxly corymbose. FI. yellow or purplish.—These 
have the aspect of Conyza, from which they differ by the tailed anthers and terete 
achenes. The name is in honour of C. L. Blume, a celebrated Dutch botanist, and 
author of many works on the Indian Flora. 
Leaves sessile (not decurrent), obovate, tapering much at base (1) lacera. 
Leaves decurrent, as narrow wings to the stem : 
Glandularly pubescent, scaberulous : 
Leaves elliptic-oblong ; pedicels equalling the invol., 
WENUOUR 3 ie sses. ter ak eee, ee a 2) alata. 
Leaves acuminate ; pedicels much longer than 
invol., slender... ... ..  « (3) pterodonta. 
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a ee ok es we we (4) Garicpine. 
1. B. lacera (DC. 1. c. p. 436); stem herbaceous, erect, softly villous, 
lowest leaves petiolate; cauline leaves obovate, sessile, but much atte- 
nuated to the base, in the upper-half denticulate, pubescent above, villous © 
aes o* 
Softly and thickly silky-can 
