Bhtinca.'\ CoillpOsitCE. 1 9 



1. B. amplectens, DC. in Wight, Co7ib-ib. 13 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 163. C. P. 1730. 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 260. 



Annual, stem about i ft. high, often much branched 

 from base, hairy; 1. rather small, 1-2 in., sessile, oval-oblong, 

 acute or subacute, auriculate at base, dentate, with regular 

 triangular teeth, the upper ones smaller, often entire, slightly- 

 hairy on both sides ; heads rather small, solitary, few, terminal, 

 on rather long peduncles, inv.-bracts narrowly linear, densely 

 pubescent, inner row tipped with a long white bristle; outer 

 fl. very slender, filiform ; achene very small, oblong, com- 

 pressed, 3-ribbed, pappus pink. 



Var. /3, arenaria, Hk. f. B. artnaria, DC, Thw. Enum. 163. 

 C. P. 1732. 



L. slightly toothed or nearly entire, usually very hairy or 

 silky. 



Sandy ground, especially near the shore in the dry region ; common. 

 Fl. Feb., March ; yellow. 



Also in India. 



Very difficult to distinguish when dry from Erigeron asteroides^ but 

 easily known when living by the absence of the violet ray-fl. 



2. B. bifoliata, DC. in Wight, Co?iirib. 14. 

 Clarke, Comp. Ind. 72. ' C. P. 3523.' 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 261. 



Very like B. amplectens, from which it differs in being 

 semi-shrubby at base, with 1. broader, more acute, sparingly 

 serrate (not dentate), very villous or silky, the upper ones 

 opp. ; pappus white. 



Dry region, apparently rare. Round the salt - pans at Kirinde, 

 S. Prov.; near Mihintale, NC. Prov. Fl. Aug., Dec; yellowish. 



Also in India, Burma, Malay Peninsula. 



Thwaites did not distinguish this from B. amplectens, and C. P. 3523 

 quoted for it in Fl. B. Ind. does not exist in Herb. Perad. 



[i?. Wightiana, DC, is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. iii. 261— no 

 doubt on the faith of Arn. Pug. 29, where a var. villosior is recorded from 

 the Island. Clarke (Comp. Ind. 74) says he has seen no specimen ; and 

 B. lacera, to which it is very close, has probably been mistaken for it. 

 B. Leschenaultiana, DC, however, which is regarded as a synonym, is 

 also given in DC. Prod. v. 435 as from Ceylon.] 



3. S. lacera, DC. Prod. v. 436 (1836). 



Thw. Enum. 163. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 76. C. P. 1735. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 263. 



Annual, stem 1-2 ft., erect, branched above, usually 

 densely glandular-pubescent; 1. oval or oblong-oval, sessile, 

 tapering to base, obtuse or subacute, sharply dentate-serrate, 

 finely silky-pubescent on both sides ; heads not exceeding 



