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two, and in some cases I have been unable to detect any. If this very 
unsatisfactory character of the double pappus be abandoned, this sper 
cies would also rank under the section Orthomeris of Aster, but ina 
very different group from the last; the involueres being turbinate- 
campanulate, and imbricated in several series. The appendages of the 
style are broadly lanceolate. 
12. Erigeron (Cœnotus) linifolium, Willd. Spec. vol. iii. p. 1955.— 
Conyza ambigua, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 381. 
A most common annual on the road-sides and in the town of Vic- 
toria. 
13. Lagenophora Billardieri, Cass.—DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 307. : 
A single small specimen, agreeing very well with the small entire- 
— . leaved Sydney plant considered by De Candolle as a variety of his Za- 
|... genophora Billardieri, as well as with two East Indian specimens. Dr. 
Asa Gray has also ascertained that the Zzauchenus lyratus, Cass., 18 
the same plant. : 
14. Amphirapis Zeiocarpa, Benth. in Lond. Journ. Bot. vol i. 
p. 488. 
Abundant in ravines. 
15. Grangea Maderaspatana, Poir.—DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 373. 
Common the Happy Valley (Col. Eyre). 
16. Blumea Javanica, Zoll. Flora, 1847, p. 531. 
Victoria Peak. This agrees precisely with Zollinger's Javanese 
specimens n. 25, referred to by him as the type of this species. | It 
will probably be found to be truly distinct from the widely-spread B. 
lacera, which includes several of De Candolle's species. The heads of 
flowers in B. Javanica are considerably larger, the scales of the invo- 
. China appears to be the common B. lacera, which may very likely be 
. also found in Hong-Kong. 
= 17. Blumea holosericea, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 442. 
À single specimen in a young state, agreeing well with my East 
. Indian one, which is also young. The species should probably be re- 
ferred as a mere variety to B. lacera. 
18. Blumea Chinensis, DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 444. 
Tolerably common, trailing in ravines. Hooker and Arnott (Bot. 
. Beech. p. 195) published a different plant as Blumea Chinensis, which 
luere much more imbricate and broader, especially the outer one — — 
_ which are short, loose, and densely pubescent. Fortune’s n. 172 from — 
