426 — POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. © Conyza. 
tapering to a point; all are covered with white down, parti- 
cularly underneath, from one to two inches long. lowers 
numerous, minute, yellow, collected on terminal fascicles, 
closely impacted together, the whole forming a tolerably 
regular corymb. Calyx woolly, chiefly the inferior parts. 
Hermaphrodite florets about four in the centre, with numer- 
ous three-toothed females in the circumference, Pappus from 
five to eight, simple hairs. Receptacles flat, naked. 
CONYZA. Schreb. gen. N. 1286. 
Receptacle naked. Pappus simple. Calyx imbricated, 
— Florets of the ray female, and three-cleft. 
aC. sivigaalinniicl é : 
Shrubby. Leaves sub-sessile, obovate, erbclatsi Giawe 
compound. Hermaphrodite <iias three ; the female ones 
numerous in the ray. 
A native of the Delta of the Ganges. Flowering time the 
end of the cold season. . 
Stem short, woody, erect, with numerous, ligneous, perma- 
nent, spreading branches; bark pretty smooth, Leaves alter- 
nate, sub-sessile, obovate, remotely and acutely serrulate, 
pretty smooth on both sides; from one to two inches long. 
Corymbs terminal, compound, dense, a little hairy. /lowers 
 sub-cylindric, individually sessile. Bractes ovate, inserted 
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round the apices of the common sub-divisions of the corymbs, 
and pressing on the calyx like a calycle. Calyx hairy. Her- 
maphrodite florets generally three in the centre, with numer- 
ous, —— females i in the circumference. 
2. 43. sadkiatain Willd. iii. 1921. ete, 
_ Shrubby, sub-seandent. Tender parts Biker “Lewves 
short-petioled, oblong, somewhat repand-dentate. Flowers . 
terminal, on short, axillary, diverging branchlets. ; 
Sonchus volubilis, Rumph, Amb. v. t. 103. f. 2. bad if 
intended for this plant, which is a native of the Moluccas. 
