1 8 CompOsitCB. [Blumea. 



C viscidula, Wall. Cat. n. 3006 (1828). 

 Thw. Enum. 163. C. P. 1739. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 258. 



A perennial herb, stem 1-3 ft., stout, erect, striate, glan- 

 dular-pubescent, much branched above ; 1, sessile, 3-6 in., 

 much tapering to base and apex, acute, distantly and shallowly 

 serrate, very finely pubescent on both sides, venation reticulate, 

 fine, pellucid ; heads shortly stalked, crowded in stalked 

 clusters to form a long paniculate inflor., inv.-bracts linear, 

 acuminate, very acute, pubescent, with narrow, membranous 

 margins ; achene glabrous, pappus pale coppery-pink. 



Open places, 1000-3000 ft.; rather rare. Passara; Badulla; Hantane. 

 Fl. Oct.-April ; yellowish. 



Also in India, Burma, Java, Australia, New Caledonia, and the 

 Philippines. 



II. BLUmSA, DC. 



Annual or perennial herbs, 1. alt., heads small, usually 



numerous, involucre ovoid or campanulate, bracts in several 



rows, narrowly linear, receptacle flat, glabrous, fl. all tubular, 



several rows of outer ones female, disk-fl. few, bisexual, anth.- 



bases sagittate and with slender tails ; style-arms flattened or 



not; achene small, oblong or linear, compressed or not, often 



ribbed, pappus in one row, white or reddish. — Sp. about 60; 



36 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Sp. 3 to 7 are closely allied, and there are many intermediate forms 

 which it is difficult to refer definitely to any of them. 



Heads solitary. 



L. dentate i. B. amplectens. 



L. serrate 2. B. BIFOLIATA. 



Heads more or less clustered. 



Hairy, silky, or densely pubescent, often also glandular. 

 Heads small (under \ in.) 

 Achenes not ribbed ; 1. similarly pubescent 



on both sides 3. B. LACERA. 



Achenes ribbed ; 1. hairy above, very white- 

 silky beneath 4. B. BARBATA. 



Heads larger (over \ in.). 



L. narrowly lanceolate, dentate, woolly or 



silky 5. B. FLEXUOSA. 



L. oval, denticulate, with long yellow hair . 6. B. CRINITA. 

 L. oblong-lanceolate, deeply gashed, sca- 

 brous above 7. B. hieraciifolia. 



Nearlv or quite glabrous, or simply glandular. 



Very glandular . . . . 8. B. MEM BRAN ACEA. 



Not glandular. 



Heads numerous in large lax panicle. . 9. B. spectabilis. 

 Heads very few in small cyme . . 10. B. angustifolia. 



