Conyza.: POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. AQ7 
3. C, balsamifera. Willd, iii, 1924. 
Shrubby, erect, Leaves lanceolate, unequally serrate, to- 
mentose, at the base pinnatifid. Corymdbs terminal ; flowers 
sub-cylindric, 
C. odorata, Rumph. Amb, vi, t. 24. f. 1. pretty good. 
A native of the eastern parts of Bengal, from thence intro- 
duced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta, by Dr, Buchanan, 
where it grows to be a large shrub, with an erect, ligneous 
trunk, and branches covered with ash-coloured bark. Flow- 
ering time March and April. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, lanceolate, irregularly 
serrate and generally more or less pinnatifid at the base, 
downy, particularly underneath, where they are sericeous and 
beautifully reticulated with numerous veins; from six to 
twelve inches long. Petioles short, often ornamented with 
one, two, three, or four, small leaflets. Corymbs terminal, 
numerous, bearing numerous, sub-cylindric, bright yellow 
flowers. Hermaphrodite florets numerous in the centre, the 
Jemale ones numerous in the circumference. 
The whole _ when bruised smells eae y of camphire. 
4. ©. lesiietai Roxb. 
Annual, erect, ramous. Leaves downy, atieuin intisihtads 
with the margins curled, and acutely gash-toothletted, — ita 
nicles terminal ; flowers conical. — : 
A native of Bengal, where it appears and ripens its = seis 
during the cold season. 
Root annual. Stem erect, ramous, particularly near the 
top, striated, villous. Branches expanding, height of the 
whole plant from two to five feet. Leaves alternate, sessile, 
downy on both sides, variously Jaciniate or pinnatifid, with 
the margins curled, acutely gash-toothletted and often ciliate, 
the floral ones, from two inches long, the lower or radical 
ones, six or eight inches long. Panicles terminal, rete 
Flowers pedicelled, very numerous, salons ectniccil Recep- 
tacle convex. ee 
