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Blumea.] LXII. COMPOSITA. 525 
Stem-leaves sessile and stem-clasping. ^ Radical leaves only 
t Rarely. exceeding 1ft. in height. |. i a: .. 
Usually not exceeding 1 ft., pubescent or villous, not viscid. Stem- 
leaves sessile and stem-clasping, mostly lanceolate. Peduncles 
wo 
. B. amplectens. 
BEEN. Vo o E A oo sc m NEP 
Small Leaves chiefly radical. Stem-leaves few, small, ovate. 
` Peduncles long and filiform. . . . Mo uu, 4. B. diffusa. 
er-heads, at leust the upper ones, sessile and clustered. 
Leaves lanceolate, oblong or obovate-oblong, the upper oues sessile. 
Tnvolucre about 4 lines long . . ... . wee ee D B, hieracifolia, 
Involuere under 3 lineslong . . . . . . . . . D B. Cunninghamii, 
Almost all the leaves petiolate and broadly obovate. Involucre 2 
to 3 lines long . . . WEE EE E e RRDRIMD 
1. B. glandulosa, DC. Prod. v. 438. An erect annual, often 2 to 3 
ft. high, more or less covered with a glandular-viscid pubescence, with some- 
times a little wool at the base of the leaves. Leaves obovate ovate or lan- 
colate, acutely or coarsely toothed, green on both sides, the lower ones often 
to 5 in. long and almost lobed at the base, on long stalks, the upper ones 
smaller and narrower but all petiolate. Flower-heads about 4 lines long, all 
uneulate or rarely in some Indian specimens a few of the upper ones 
almost sessile, forming a large pyramidal panicle. 
ensland. Endeavour river, Banks and Solander; Broad Sound and Shoalwater 
— By, Re Brown ; Port Molle, M*Gillivray.—The species is widely spread over E. India and 
the Archipelago, extending to S. China. 
Var. minor. Not exceeding 1} ft. in height. Leaves and flower-heads smaller. Port 
Molle, M'Gillivray ; Rockhampton, Thozet. 
"ese and stem-clasping, from ovate to lanceolate, acutely toothed and 
Usually small. Flower-heads all pedunculate, not numerous, in a loose pa 
16, Very divaricate in Indian specimens, less so in the ustralian ones. 
uolucres nearly 3 lines long. Style-branches of the disk-florets long and 
nder. 
land. Keppel Bay, Tozet; Connor river, Bowman. The species is common 
m E, India. 
3. B. integrifolia, DO. Prod. v. 433. A rather slender annual, erect 
o branching from the base, rarely above 1 ft. high, pubescent or hirsute, and 
PS sometimes viscid, the young shoots occasionally silky-woolly. — 
Sort but 
lueres 2 to 3 lines leng. 2 
S har, Australia. Port Keatts, N.W. coast, 4. Cunningham ; Victoria river, M'Adam 
‘ Roper river, F. Mueller. 
^ B, diffusa R. Br. Herb. A small slender and diffuse annual, 
- lightly viscid, with a very little wool at the base of the stems, rarely exceed- 
