384* BURMA. ITS r EOF IE AND PRODUCTIOXS. 



C^suLiA, Eoxhtrgh. 



Flvwer-heixds clustered, axillary, of 2 bracts only, inserted on the broad receptacle 

 and surrounded by a leafy involucre. Aquatic herbs, the leaves simple. 

 C. AxiLLAEis, Roxb. Chittagong. 



Mci/era oiientalis, Don. 



+ + Flower-hciKls manij-fuictrrd. 

 f Floicer-hccih androgi/nous, usicalli/ icith more female than hermaplrodite floreta, 

 or mure or Ifss lousccual, diacioiis or moiuecious, clustered or distinct. Inrolucral-hracts 

 rarely petaluid. 



° Hermaphrodite florets all sterile, the sti/le tisualli/ entire or scarcely and only very 

 shortly 1-chft. 



AxAPHALis, De Candolle. 

 Ftou-er-heads androgynous or incompletely dicrcious, in corymbs, rarely few or 

 solitary. Bristles of pappus free from the base. Inflorescence not involucred. 



A. EoYLF.ANA, D.C. Ava Hills and hills cast of Toung-ngoo 



at 4000 to 5000 feet. 



Leaves adnate but not decurrent at the base, 1-ncrvcd. Flower-heads pcduncled, 

 3-4 lines in diameter, corymbose. 



A. ADNATA, D.C. Martaban between 5400 and 7000 feet. 



Leaves more or less decurrent at the base, 1 -nerved. Flower-heads half the size, 

 sessile and clustered, in corymbs. A densely white adnate-woolly stout herb. 



° ° Most or all hermajihrudite florets fertile. Style deejjly 2-cleft. 

 GxAPHALUM, Linn flits. 



Floirer-heads more or less androgynous, usually small and clustered, rarely solitary, 

 the involucral bracts scarious, often "coloured. liay-flnrefs very numerous, disk-florets 

 few. Uristles of pappus not feathery, free or united at the base into a ring. 



* Flourr-heads corymlose, or the corymbs contracted and almost head-like. 

 -|- Leaves linear, with a rounded hasc half-stem-clasping. 

 G. nvpoLEuccM, D.C. Hills of Ava and Martaban at 4000 to 6000 feet. 



G. confertum, Bth. 

 Tall annual. Flower-heads laxly corymbose, the involucral bracts yellow or 

 brown. 



X X Leaves more or less spatulatc-linear to cunente-olorate. 

 G. Li'TEO-ALBrM, L. All Over Burma and its islands up to 4000 feet. 



G. cunfusum, ramigerum, and Jaeanicum, D.C. 

 G. nmlticeps, Wall. 

 G. orixense, Itosb. 

 G. lieinn-ardtiiinum, Miq. 

 Silky-villous herb much branched from the base. Fhiwer-hends densely clustered, 

 forming leafless more or less lax corymbs, the involucral bracts bright yellow or 

 greyish-pale-yellow. 



G. FLACCiDrir, Kz. Doab of the Hlein and Irrawaddy, in bamboo 



jungles (B. arundinacea). 



Simple or almost simple tender herb, thinly viscid-pilose. Leaves obovate- 

 cuneate, almost half-araplexicaul, thinly herbaceous. Flower-heads in dense terminal 

 almost head-like corymbs, the involucral bracts almost membranous, often more or 

 less steel-blue coloured. 



** Flou-er-heads clustered or rarely solitary in the axils of the hares, and usually 

 gradually passing into a leafy terminal spike or head. 



