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10. B. ang-ustifolia, Thzu. Enum. 164 (i860). [Plate LVI.] 

 Clarke, Comp. Ind. 81. C. P. 691. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 264. 



A small perennial herb with a slender vertical or ascending 

 rootstock, stem 4-10 in., erect, slender, quite glabrous ; 1. 

 mostly radical ii-2| in., linear, very gradually tapering at 

 base into long petiole, acute, faintly crenate-serrate towards 

 apex, glabrous ; heads few, scarcely \ in., nodding, on slender 

 stalks which are glabrous or slightly cottony, about 3-6 in a 

 small terminal cyme, receptacle muriculate, inv.-bracts acute, 

 puberulous; achene oblong-ovoid, without ribs, slightly hairy, 

 pappus white. 



Damp places among rocks, 1000-3000 ft. ; apparently very rare. 

 Ambagamuvva (Gardner) ; Hantane ; a mile below Peradeniya by the 

 Mahaweli river. Fl. Jan. -March ; yellow. 



Endemic. 



A small, smooth, slender plant, very unlike the other species. 



■ \^B. bahamifera, DC. {Conyza balsamifera, L.) is recorded for Ceylon 

 by Moon (Cat. 58), whose locality is Kandy, and by Thwaites (Enum. 

 422), who so named specimens collected at Trincomalie by Glenie in 

 1862, which are C. P. 3665. (See Laggera aiirita, Benth.) The true 

 B. balsaniifera is native to Assam, Burma, and Malaya; it was, however, 

 called '■Coftyza arbor Zeylonensisi! &c., by Plukenet, and on that account 

 got included in Burm. Thes. 74.] 



12. Ii AGGER A, ScJmlt2-Bip. 



Annual or perennial herbs, scarcely differing from Bluinea 

 save in the anth. -bases which are sagittate but not tailed, and 

 in having a more branched habit. — Sp. 10; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Stem 4-winged i. L. alata. 



Stem cylindrical 2. L. aurita. 



I. Ii. alata, Sch.-Bip. ex Oliver Traits. Lin7i, Soc. xxix. 94 (1873). 

 Bliimea alata^ DC, Thw. Enum. 163. C. P. 551. 

 Fl. B. Ind. iii. 271. Wight, Ic. t. iioi {Blumea). 



A perennial herb, stem 2-4 ft., erect, stout, stiff, widely 

 4-winged throughout, finely woolly, with numerous short 

 branches; 1. ii-3 in., sessile with the base decurrent to form 

 the wings on the stem, narrowly oblong, obtuse, finely denti- 

 culate, roughly pubescent above, cottony -woolly beneath ; 

 heads numerous, about | in., solitary, nodding or drooping on 

 rather long woolly bracteate stalks, axillary and terminal on 

 the short leafy branches, involucre ovate-ovoid, bracts linear, 

 numerous, acuminate, very acute, the outer ones shorter lax, 

 somewhat spreading or recurved, slightly pubescent or woolly, 



