400 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIOJS. 



S. Peghensis, Clarke. Karen Hills. 



Leaves pinnatifld, the end-lobe rather elongate, tomentose beneath. Flower- 

 heads shortly peduncled or almost sessile, clustered and forming an elongate contracted 

 almost raceme-like panicle, the involucral bracts greyish villous, acute. 



Sub-tribe iIUTISL\CIEJE. 



Fhicir-heails either heterogamotix, with radiating female florets, or liomogamous, ivith 

 tlie florets all hermaphrodite and tubular, in loth canes some or all of the florets more or less 

 2-lipped. Anthers with pointed or failed base. Style not or slightly tliiehened joint-like 

 at the apex, the branches very short or elongate, rounded or truncate at the tips, not 

 appendaged. Pappus bristly, paleaceous or rarely absent. Leaves radical or alternate, 

 rarely opposite. 



* Flotcer-hends homogamou^, the corollas tabular u-ith the seg mods of limb narrow, 

 equal or almost 1-lipped. 



X Flower-heads usually many-flowered. 



DicoMA, Cassini. 



Flower-heads usually almost sessile. Style-branches linear, long or shortened. 

 Achenes densely villous. Scales or bristles of the pappus fcatheiy, copious. Herbs. 



S. T03IKXT0SA, Cass. Limestone hills of Segain. 



I), lanuginosa, D.C. 



X X Flower -heads few-flowered. 

 Leucomeris, Don. 



Heceptacle naked. S/yle-braiiches very short, conniving or almost spreading. 

 Achenes oblong, silky-villous. Bristles of jiappus smooth. Flower-heads corymbose. 

 Shrubs or small trees. 



L. decora, Kz. Prome district. 



Flower-heads solitarv, in dense terminal umbel-like corymbs, the involucral 

 bracts gradually shorter and passing into the thick short densely imbricate-bracted 

 peduncle. Leaves membranous, glabrous. 



AiysLiEA, De Candolle. 



Style-branches very short. Bristles of pappus feathery. Flower-heads 2-.5- 

 flowered, sessile or peduncled, racemose or panicled. Herbs. 



* Leaves narrowed at the base and decurrent wing-like on the petiole. 



A. PTEEoroDA, D.C. var n Top of Moolyit {flde Parish) and Hills of 



Martaban from 5000 to 7100 feet. 



Sparingly pilose, the flowering stems more or less sessile-leaved. Leaves 

 membranous, obscurely crenate-toothed. Flower-heads sessile or peduncled, in la.x 

 spikes or diffuse narrow panicles. 



var. a genuina; A. pteropoda, D.C; A. SiUiefcnsis, Clarke. Flower-heads 

 sess;ile, usually clustered, foi^ming a simple elongate lax spike. 



var. /i ejf'asa, Clarke. Flower-heads slenderly peduncled, almost racemose, 

 forming a spreading nariow panicle. 



** Leaves more or less cordate at the base, the petiole not u-ingcd. 

 A. Braxdisiaxa, Kz. Martaban Hills between 2000 and 4000 feet. 



Flowering stem radical and almost sca])iform and leafless. Leaves almost coria- 

 ceous, entire, hirsute, often glabrescent above, densely villous fringed. FlowcT-hcads 

 peduncled, in diffuse panicles. 



