Blainvillea.'] Conipositce. 3 *j 



E. alba, Hassk. Plant. Jav. Rar. 528 (1848). Kikirindi, S. 

 ZLarlppan, T. 



E. prostrata, L., Moon Cat. 58. E. erec/a, L., Thw. Enum. 164. 

 C. P. 1754- 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 304. Lam. III. Gen. t. 687 {E. erectd). Rumph. Herb. 

 Amboin. vi. t. 18. 



Annual, stem erect or prostrate, often rooting at nodes, 

 with many diffuse reddish branches, strigose with adpressed 

 hair; 1. sessile, \\-2\ in., lanceolate-oblong, tapering to base, 

 acute or subacute, faintly serrate, strigose with scanty ad- 

 pressed hair on both sides; heads solitary or two together, 

 on stiff unequal peduncles, very flat, inv.-bracts about 8, ovate- 

 lanceolate, acute, herbaceous, ray-fl. spreading, scarcely as 

 long as bracts, linear, not toothed, disk-fl. often with 4-lobed 

 cor. ; achene with 2 winged and 2 blunt angles, sides covered 

 with warty excrescences, no pappus but top sometimes with a 

 minute spine. 



Wet places throughout the island ; very common. Fl. April, Nov., 

 &c.; white. 



In all warm countries. 



The Ceylon form is usually erect {E. erecia, L.), but the prostrate 

 state {E. prostata, L.) is common on the coast and elsewhere; they do 

 not otherwise differ. Employed as an alterative medicine by the natives. 



23. BX.AZNVZZiZ.Z:A, Cass. 



Annual, 1. alt. or sub-opp. ; heads small, in dichotomous 

 cymes, involucre ovoid, bracts large, broad, concave, passing 

 into the bractlets on the small concave receptacle, fl. few, 

 very small, ray-fl. in one row ligulate, female, disk-fl. bisexual, 

 tubular ; anth.-bases obtuse, style-arms flattened, acute ; 

 achenes enfolded by the bractlets, oblong, compressed, 

 truncate, crowned by a few unequal acute scales. — Sp. 16 ; 

 I in FL B. Ind. 



B. latifolia, DC. in Wight., Contrib. 17 (1834). 



Verbesitia dichot07na, Willd., Moon Cat. 58. Thw. Enum. 164. C. P. 



1753- 



Fl. B. Ind. iii. 305. Pluk. Amalth. t. 282, f. 6. 



Annual, erect, 1-2 ft., rigid, much branched, branches 

 ascending, scabrous ; 1. ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2-3 in., 

 acute at base, tapering to acute apex, shallowly crenate, 

 somewhat 3-nerved at base, harshly hairy on both sides, 

 petiole h in., hispid ; heads very shortly stalked, in erect, 

 dichotomous, terminal cymes, inv.-bracts subacute, much 

 imbricate, pubescent, bractlets on receptacle as long as fl., 



