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6. Blumea virens, DC. in Wight, Contrih. (1834) p. 14. Erect, 

 slender, 1-4 ft. high, much branched, glabrous ; stem grooved, glabrous. 

 Lower leaves sometimes reaching ^-o^ in. long, petioled, obovate, or 

 often lyrate or runcinate, irregularly or sinuate-toothed, the upper 

 leaves much smaller, elliptic-obloiig, serrate, all glabrous or nearly so. 

 Heads | in. in diam., glabrous, on capillary glabrous peduncles, in open 

 much-branched panicles with small leaves on the ascending branches ; 

 flowers yellow. Corolla-lobes of ^ flowers glabrous or glandular. 

 Invol. -bracts slender, almost glabrous, the outer very much smaller than 

 the inner, linear-lanceolate, acute, spreading, the inner bracts linear, 

 subacute, pubescent at the tips. Anthers all fertile. Eeceptacle 

 glabrous. Pappus shorter than the inner bracts. Achenes about -^ in. 

 long, oblong, hairy, ribbed. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 264 ; 0. B. Clarke, Comp. 

 Ind. p. 79 {partly) ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. y. 11 (1898) p. 648. 

 — Flowers : Dec-Jan. 



KcNKAN : Law\, Woodrow. S. M. Colfntry: Belgaum, Bitchie, ^%^\ Kanara : 

 Tho7)ison ! — Distrib. India (Assam, Eirma, W. Peninsula). 



7. Blumea membranacea, DC. Prodr. y. 5 (1836) p. 440. 

 Annual ; stems 2-4 ft. high, stout, striate, more or less glandular- 

 pubescent. Leaves thinly membranous, the lower petioled, sometimes 

 reaching 5^ by 1| in. (including the somewhat obscure petiole), obovate, 

 or often lyrate or runcinate, acute or obtuse, coarsely and deeply 

 serrate, finely pubescent on both sides, base running down like a wing 

 into the petiole. Heads numerous, small, about | in. in diam., on 

 slender glandular-hairy peduncles, in much-branched open panicles. 

 Invol.-bracts glandular-pubescent, the outer much the shorter, lanceo- 

 late, spreading, the inner liuear, acute. Pappus white. Achenes 

 ribbed. 



Scarcely separable from B. virens, of which it seems to be a pubescent 

 and glandular form. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 265 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 22 ; 

 AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648.— Flowers : May. 

 A'erh". Mharhir. 



TvoNKAN : Woodrow. Deccan : Khandala, Cooke !, Woodrow ! ; Poona, Woodrow I 

 S. M. Country; Dharwar, Woodrow I — Distrib. Throughout India; Ceylon, Malay 

 I^land^. 



Vae. muralis, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 265. Grlandular-hairy. 

 Leaves very tender, elliptic, ovate or lanceolate, the lower often lyrate 

 or pinnatifid, toothed or serrulate, very membranous. Invol.-bracts 

 rigid, pink-colored. B. muralis (sp.), DC. Prodr. v. 5, p. 440; Dalz. & 

 Gibs. p. 125. 



Common on old walls, Dahell c^~ Gibson. Konkan : Stocks !, Law ! ; Bassein Fort, 

 DaLell ^- Gibson. Kanara : Kala naddi, Fiichip, 395 ! 



«. Blumea oxyodonta, DC. in Wight, Cnntrih. (1834) p. 15. 

 Herbaceous, prostrate or decumbent, branched from the base ; branches 

 slender, leafy, 3-10 in. long, simple or dichotomously forked, pubescent 

 or glabrous, the young ones ol'ten sericeo-canescent. Leaves mem- 

 branous, spinous-toothed, those near the base of the stem reaching 

 sometimes 4-5 by 11-21 in., obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, petioled, 

 upper stem-leaves much smaller, g-li '^y 5~i ^"-^ subsessile, obovate or 

 elliptic, pubescent on both sides, the young ones often sericeo-villous. 



