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narrow, usually uumerous, slightly unequal. Eeceptacle flat or scarcely 

 convex, naked or rarely foveolate. Corollas of the $ flowers violet- 

 purple or white, the exterior narrowly ligulate, the interior sometimes 

 tubular, filiform, scarcely dentate ; corollas of ^ flowers yellow, 

 regular, tubular, the limb slightly enlarged, with 5 (rarely 4) short 

 teeth. Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms of ^ flowers more or less 

 flattened, the tips lanceolate. Pappus 1-seriate, of many long hairs, or 

 sometimes 2-seriate, the outer row of a few short hairs or bristles. 

 Achenes compressed, often narrow, the margins usually nerviform, the 

 faces without nerves or with 1-2 nerves. — Disteib. Chiefly in the 

 temperate regions of the world ; species about lOU. 



1. Erigeron asteroides, Roxh. Fl Lid. v. 3 (1832) p. 432. A 

 coarse auniial 1-2 ft. high ; stem much-branched, clothed with spreading 

 hairs. Leaves sessile (or the radical shortly petiolate), 1-2 in. long, 

 oblong or obovate-oblong, those of the stem auriculate, ^-amplexicaul, 

 obtuse, all toothed or lobulate, hairy on both sides. Heads |— ^ in. in 

 diam., few, on long peduncles. Invol.-bracts 1-2-seriate, subequal, very 

 narrow, much shorter than the pappus, bristle-pointed and with scarious 

 margins. Ray of 1-2 rows of ligulate bluish-violet spreading flowers, 

 longer than the invol.-bracts, then several rows of filiform $ flowers 

 appearing white in the fresh plant (C. B. Clarice); disk composed of 

 yellow ^ perfect flowers with tailless anthers. Pappus pinkish-white. 

 Achenes much flattened, ellipsoid or slightly obovoid, 3^ in. long, 

 glabrous or nearly so, yellowish. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 254 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 3, p. 16 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 647 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 256. Erigeroyi Mspidam, DC. in Wight, 

 Contrib. (1834) p. 9 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 54.— Plowers : Sept.- 

 Nov. Veen, Sonasali ; Maredi. 



KoNKAN : Stocks \ Deccan : Nasik, Balzelll; Ahmednagar, Cooke], Wood row I 

 S. M. Country : Belgaum, Ritchie, 394 ! — Distrib. Throughout India ; Ceylon. 



12. CONYZA, Less. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or cut. 

 Heads corymbose or panicled (rarely solitary), heterogamous, discoid. 

 Outer flowers $ , fertile, 2-co - seriate, filiform (rarely ligulate), yellow ; 

 disk-flowers ^ , all or most of them fertile, yellow, tubular, the limb 

 5-toothed. Involucre campanulate ; bracts 2-ao - seriate, imbricate, 

 lanceolate or linear, sometimes very narrow, the outer smaller. Ee- 

 ceptacle flat or somewhat convex, naked, or pitted and fimbriate. 

 Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of ^ flowers flattened, usually 

 narrow, with lanceolate tips. Pappus 1- (rarely 2-) seriate. Achenes 

 small, compressed. — Disteib. Tropical and subtropical regions ; species 50. 



1. Conyza stricta, Willd. Sp. PL v. 3 (1800) p. 1922. Herbaceous, 

 1-2|- ft. high ; stem erect, leafy, pubescent, often simple in the lower 

 part, corymbosely branched near the apex, sometimes, though less 

 commonly, branched from the base. Leaves numerous, subsessile, 

 various, obovate, cuneate, spathulate or linear, irregularly toothed, 

 hairy. Heads small, g in. in diam., very numerous, in dense terminal 

 corymbs ; flowers yellow ; peduncles hairy, bracts below the heads and 

 at the forks linear, acute, aristate. Invol.-bracts narrowly lanceolate, 



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