1 6 Composites. \Erigeron. 



It. Billardieri, Cass, in Did. Sc. Nat.ww in (1820?). [Plate 

 LV.] 



L. Harveyi., Thw. Enum. 162. C. P. 21. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 248. 



A small perennial herb, with a short erect rootstock and 

 very long thick roots; 1. all radical forming a rosette, sessile, 

 f-2 in., oblong-spathulate, tapering to base, obtuse or rounded 

 at apex, shallowly crcnate-serrate, slightly hairy on both sides, 

 rather thick, whitish beneath; head solitary, terminating erect 

 slender glabrous scapes from the 1. -axils 2-6 in. high, involucre 

 \ in., bracts narrowly linear with hyaline margins, glabrous, 

 erect, ultimately spreading, acute, ray-fl. spreading, cor.-short, 

 not toothed, disk-fl. glandular outside; achene quite without 

 ribs, very smooth, beak truncate. 



On the patanas, montane zone, 4000-7000 ft.; rather common. FI. 

 April and Oct., Nov.; ray white or purplish, disk green. 



Also in Khasia, Malay Islands, China, and Australia, but not in 

 Peninsular India. 



The nearest approach to the daisy {Bellis perenfiis) in Ceylon, but 

 with very much smaller flower-heads. 



8. ERXGERON, L. 



Annual, 1. alt., heads corymbose; involucre cup-shaped, 

 bracts numerous, narrowly linear, ultimately reflexed, re- 

 ceptacle flatly depressed-globose, muriculate, ray-fl. in many 

 rows, outermost very narrowly ligulatc, female, disk-fl. 

 numerous, tubular, bisexual ; anth. -bases obtuse, style-arms 

 of bisexual fl. flattened, achene very small, much compressed, 

 pappus of many long hairs. — Sp. 100; 7 in FL B. Ind. 



E. asteroides, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 432 (1832). Narakaramba, T. 



Conyza ccgyptiaca., Thw. Enum. 163 (non DC). C. P. 1733. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 254 (not given for Ceylon). 



Annual, 1-2 ft., stem much branched, very hair\' with 

 spreading hair; 1. sessile, 1-2 in., oblong or obovate-oblong, 

 auriculate and half-amplexicaul, obtuse, coarsely and irregu- 

 larly incise- or dentate-serrate, hairy on both sides ; heads 

 f in. wide, {qvj, on long peduncles, inv.-bracts very narrow, 

 attenuate, pubcrulous, slightly viscous, with membranous 

 margins ; ray-fl. very narrowly filiform, exceeding the bracts, 

 acute; achene oval-oblong, glabrous, pale-brown, pappus 

 pinkish -white. 



Low country, especially in sandy places in dry region and on sea- 

 shore ; rather common. Anuradhapura ; Mineri ; Trinconialie ; Colombo; 

 Galle. Fl. Sept.- Dec; ray pinkish-violet, disk yellowish. 



Also in India. 



