IS LXXI. COMPOSIT.i:. 



aristate, sub-2-seriate, subequal, pubescent on the back. Pappus 

 1-seriate, at length reddish (C B. Clarice). Achenes ovoid-oblong, 

 compressed, -^-V in. long, with a few microscopical hairs or soa)etimes 

 microscopically papillose. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 258 ; AVoodr. in Journ. 

 Eomb. jS^at. v. 11 (189S) p. 648. Coiujza absinthifoUa, DC. in Wight, 

 Contrib. (1834) p. 16; Grab. Cat. p. 97; Dab. & Gibs. p. 124; 

 C. B. Clarke, Conip. Ind. p. 64. Conyza adenocarpa, Dalz. in Dalz. & 

 Gibs. Bo. PI. p. 125.— Flowers : Oct.-Xov. 



Konkan: Lawl, Stoc/iSl, Lamhei-il Df.ccan : Sinhagad hill, Gangaraml; Maha- 

 bleshwar, Cooke I; Wada, below Mahableshwar, Kanitkarl S. M. Country: near 

 Belgaum, Laiv ex Graham ; Belgaum hills, Ritchie, 404 ! 



I am unable by any distinctive characters to separate Conj/za. adenocarpa, Dalz., 

 from the above. There is only 1 .sheet of this plant in Herb. Kew., the specimens on 

 which were apparently collected by Dalzell himselC. It does not appear to have been 

 found by any other collector, and Woodrow does not include it in his list of Bombay 

 plants. I cannot find that the achenes are covered with waxy glands, as described by 

 Dalzell & Gibson. 



13. BLUMEA, DC. 



Annual or perennial, glandular, pubescent or woolly herbs. Leaves 

 alternate, usually toothed or lobed, sessile or petiolate, rarely decurrent. 

 Heads of moderate size, solitary, panicled or fascicled, rarely racemose, 

 heterogamous, disciform, purple, rosy or yellow. Outer flowers 

 CO - seriate, $ , fertile ; disk-flowei's ^ , few, fertile (rarely sterile). In- 

 volucre ovoid or campauulate; bracts oo - seriate, imbricate, narrow, acute, 

 herbaceous or soft, the outer gradually smaller. Eeceptacle flat, naked. 

 Corollas oE $ flowers filiform, minutely 2-3-toothed, those of the 

 ^ flowers regular, tubular, slender, with a slightly enlarged 5-toothed 

 limb. Anther-bases sagittate ; tails usually slender. Style-arms of the 

 '^ flowers flattened or almost filiform, somewhat acute, papillose on the 

 back, rarely connate so as to form one undivided style. Pappus 

 slender, 1-seriate, usually caducous. Achenes small, subterete or angled, 

 often ribbed, glabrous or pilose. — Distkic. Tropical and subtropical 

 Asia, Africa, and Austr^dia ; species about 60. 



Herbs. Leaves not reaching 6 in. long. 



Heads few, solitary, pedunc-led at the ends of the branches. 

 Invol.-bracts tipped with a long white bristle; pappus 



pink 1. B. amplectens. 



Invol.-bracts not tipped with a long bristle ; pappus 



wliite 2. B. hifoliafa. 



Heads many, villous, small, in spiciform cymes or panicles. 



Corollas purple 3. B. Wighfiana. 



Corollas yellow. 



Eeceptacle pubescent ; achenes ribbed 4. B. glomerafn. 



Receptacle glabrous ; achenes not ribbed (the plants 



smell strongly of turpentine) 5. B.lacera. 



Heads many, small, in peduucled open cor)mbs. Tall 

 slender herbs. 



Quite glabrous n. B. vircjis. 



Pubescent 7. B. mcmhranacca. 



Heads few, J-i in. in diara., in axillary and terminal 

 corymbs, often clustered. 

 Prostrate herb with branches radiating from the root... 8. B, oxoydontn. 



Erect herb ; heads \-\ in., in peduncled cymes 9. B. eriantha. 



Erect herb ; heads J in., a.xillary, sessile, solitary or 



clustered 10. B. Belangeriana. 



