20 CoinpOsitcE. [Blumea. 



\ in., numerous, on glandular-pubescent stalks, rather crowded 

 in short cymes forming a large elongated infl., inv. narrowly 

 linear, acuminate, glandular-hairy; achene not ribbed, pappus 

 white. 



A common weed by roadsides, borders of paddy fields, &c. ; up to 

 about 4000 ft. Fl. September, &c.; ti. purple. 



Throughout Tropical Asia and Africa. 



Clarke (1. c.) refers C. P. 560 and 1734 to this as varieties. I think 

 they are better placed under B. menibranacea as in Fl. B. Ind. Scent 

 sweetly aromatic. 



4. B. barbata, DC. in Wight., Contrib. 14 (1834). 

 Thw. Enum. 163. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 'j'^. C. P. 1731. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 262. 



Annual, stem i-i^ ft., erect, stiff, nearly simple, slender, 

 sparsely clothed with long white hair; 1. small, 1-2 in., sessile, 

 oval or obovate-oblong, tapering to base, acute, spinous- 

 serrate, coarsely hairy above, ver}- white and silky with 

 adpressed hair beneath; heads about ] in., not very numerous, 

 on glandular-hairy stalks in short lax cymes forming an 

 elongated infl. ; inv.-bracts as in B. lacera, sparsely glandular- 

 hairy, fl. rather few ; achene linear, not compressed, ribbed, 

 pappus white. 



Lower montane zone; rather rare. Pusselawe; Dolosbagie. Fl. 

 December, Jan.; yellow. 



Also in Travancore. 



Distinguished by its small slender habit, and the 1. very silky and 

 white beneath. 



5. S. flexuosa, Clarke., Comp. Ind. 86 (1876). 



B. Iiicraciifolia, var. /3, Thw. Enum. 163. C. P. 19 and 403 in part. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 267. 



Stem 2-4 ft. or more, very erect, almost unbranched, stout, 

 densely covered with silky or cottony spreading hair, 1. rather 

 numerous, iJ-sJ in. (smaller upwards), oblong-oval to linear- 

 lanceolate, sessile, tapering to base, subacute or obtuse at 

 apex, sharply denticulate or serrate sometimes almost spiny 

 on margin, more or less cottony-silky above when young but 

 becoming glabrous and harsh when old, usuall}Mvhite beneath 

 with long silky hairs sometimes cottony-pubescent; heads 

 about I in. on stalks nearly the same length, ovate-oblong, 

 cymes dense, elongated, paniculate, inv.-bracts numerous, 

 densely clothed with long silky hair ; fl. numerous ; achene 

 linear, ribbed, glabrous. 



Upper montane zone ; common. .Adam's Peak ; Nuwara Eliya, &;c., 

 abundant. V\. Oct., &c. ; purple or pale yellow, scales purplish. 

 Also in the Nilgiris. 



