430. POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA, - Conyza. 
cles, the whole top, or ramous part of the plant formsa single, 
large, diffuse one, of an oval form. Calyx hairy. Herma- 
phrodite florets about ten, or twelve, in the centre. The fe- 
male ones numerous, in the circumference they are very mi- 
nute and have the ligulate border three-toothed. 
It is from a plant of this genus, or a Baccharis, Dr, Bucha- 
nan informed. me that the natives of the Andaman Islands 
make their twine for fishing lines; and as the bark of this is 
strong, and peels off in long stripes, it may be the same, 
10. C. bifoliata. Willd. iii, 1920. 
Herbaceous, ascending, downy. Radical leaves short-pe- 
tioled, the cauline ones sessile, all are serrated, dentate, and 
downy. Pedunele long, one-flowered, often with ¢ one or more 
leaf-like bractes near the middle. 
_An annual, a native of dry land, about tee and road 
sides. It flowers during the cold season. 
Stems or branches several, ascending, from nine to twenty- 
four inches high, round, downy. Leaves, the inferior ones 
large, short-petioled; the upper ones small, sessile, all are 
obovate-oblong, downy, serrate, serratures acute. Flowers 
many, terminal, long-peduncled, yellow. Peduneles filiform, 
straight, often leaf-bearing near the middle, the number in 
any plant is uncertain, but generally more than two. Seales 
of the calyx linear, ale 
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= Cc. eenstiida: Sek. 
bby, Leaves from pinnatifid, and bipimatiid 
on a the stem, to to Fineas; and nearly simple, amongst the flowers, 
soft and villous. Corymbs terminal, compound, Flowers 
oval, with about five hermaphrodite florets in the centre, and 
many female ones in the ray, all fertile, 
A native of Nepal. It flowers in the cold season in the Bo- 
tanic Gerson. 
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‘Shrabby ; ; ramifications numerous and ethic Ses 
