Conyza. POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 431 
linear-lanceolate, entire, decurrent. Peduncles terminal, be- 
coming axillary, often winged, and then with a leaf near the 
solitary flower. Calycine ae subulate, the exterior ones 
recurved, 
. Found in Nepal by Dr. Buichata who sent the seeds to 
the Botanic garden where the plants blossom during the hot 
season. ' 
13. C. repanda. R. 
Annual, straight, ramous. Leaves stem-clasping, not de- 
current, lanceolar, repand-denticulate. Flowers numerous, 
on the branchlets ovate. ) 
From Pegu introduced into the Botanic garden where it 
appears about the close of the rains, flowering and ripening 
its seed from December till May. 
Root annual, Stem straight to the top of the plant, from 
three to six feet high, slightly striated, and somewhat pubes- 
cent. Branches numerous, alternate, nearly erect, with al- 
ternate, simple or decompound, floriferous branchlets. Leaves 
alternate,stem-clasping, but not decurrent ; those of the stem 
large, broad-lanceolate, tapering most toward the base, where 
they expand into two lobes, one on each side of the stem; 
the margins repand, and dentate, from six to ten inches long. 
Those of the branches and branchlets very small; all are 
harsh to the feel, and a little hairy. Flowers ovale, smal], 
yellow, in little, rather remote, alternate fascicles, on the 
branchlets, some sessile, some short-peduncled. Scales of the 
calyx linear, with scariose, ciliate margins. Corollets from 
ten to twenty, five-toothed, hermaphrodite in the centre, 
numerous, and most slender, three-toothed females in the cir- 
cumference. Pappus of simple white hairs, Receptacle flat, 
dotted. 
14. C. salicifolia, Willd, iii, 1939. o 
Shrubby. Leaves linear-lanceolar, entire, downy under- 
soni, Cory ymbs terminal, densely ramous, her ai with one 
