526 LXII. COMPOSITJE. [Blumea, 
g 6 in. ee the dau Gen chiefly radical and rosulate, petio- 
ln obovate-oblong, j to 1 rely 2 in. long; those on the stem few, 
nall, ovate, stem-clasping. "Pedwiclós long aud very slender. Flower- 
heads smali, glabrous c or slightly pubescen 
, Aust ees Islands. of the Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Brown ; towards M‘Adam 
Range, F. Muelle 
. B. rees er wai e 442. An erect stiff almost simple 
Ms 1 to 2 ft. high, m less tomentose or densely villous, but not 
i 
obovate, 2 to 3 in. long, and petiolate, the others sessile or nearly so bw 
narrowed at the base, the uppermost almost lanceolate. Flo wer-heads about 
4 lines long, mostly sessile and clustered, the lower clusters distant, the 
following 2 species.— Wight, Ic. t. 1099 (representing a dwarf erg 
N. Australia. Between Providence diim and M‘Adam Range, F. Muel 
Queensland. Broad Sound, R. Bro Ke ` e Thozet ; ue Big; Leich- 
hardt ; also a doubtful j epis in Bo zeg: coliec 
The species is one of the common ones in Ke Asia eg ao ‘and a Peninsula to 
the Archipelago, aud ege to S. China and For R. Browu's a eo. Sch 
specimens belong to the very villous var. Ao/osericea, "Be nth. PL Hongk: 178, he 
sericea, DC. Prod. v. 442. “Leichhardt’s and Thozet’s are less villous, the leaves oft 
former nearly glabrous and on longer petioles. 
5 I ninghamii, DO. Prod. v. 435. An erect stiff scarcely 
branched annual, a WE or silky-villous. Leaves as in B. hieracifolia, 
the lower ones petiolate and nearly obovate, the uppermost Deier often 
stem-clasping, all irregularly and acutely toothed. Flower-heads 2 to 3 E 
long, mostly sessile in small clusters, forming an oblong leafy Teil D: 
volucres of B. lacera. 
" Australia. Careening and Brunswick bays, N.W. uch A. Cunningham; Pot "" 
Pearee, Victoria ri soni F. Mueller; Gulf of Carpentaria, R. Bro -This plant WC? fe 
appear ‘to be exactly matched in an ER of our Indian specimens, a thon clo ot allied ^ 
i aee and the following species It differs from ae ieracifolia chiefly in 
smal a m B. lacera in the more sessile lea 
DC. Prod. v. 436. An erect x mt 1 to 2 
B. bi 
above 3 lines long and often not above 2 lines, very numerous in narrow " 
long and dense or looser and more spreading panicles "Jeafy at the base, 
upper Dm sessile and clustered on the branches. Involucral bracts usual 
very narr 
N. P 3e Victoria river, F. Mue. ` Rock- 
Queensland. Shoalwater Bay, R. Ceci Burdekin arene F. Mueller ; Rock 
hampton, mesa i Brisbane river, Moreton u Bay, Fraser, F. ical and snb- 
This is one of the commonest weeds in tropical een adn. ue trop! nli em 
uu Africa 1 » the Archipelago and S. China. It is also extremely variable an The A 
ifficult to recognize in the bad specimens often preserved in herbaria. 
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