22 Lxxi. coMPOSiT-i:. 



Heads ^ in. in diaui., solitary or corvmbose, on slender peduncles ; 

 flowers j^ellow. Corolla-lobes of ^ flowers glabrous. Invol.-bracts 

 linear, acute, more or less densely pubescent. Eeceptacle glabrous. 

 Acbenes slightly hairy. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 266 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. 

 p. 85; AVoodr.'in Jouru. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648.— Flowers : 

 Jan. -Mar. 



Mr. C. B. Clarke (I. c.) says that all the tailless anther-cells he has 

 examined were destitute of pollen, and that Kurz suspected the species 

 oxyodonta to be a hybrid or a polygamous form of some other species. 



Konkan: Law I, Bitchie, 399!; near Eatnagiri, KanitJcar\; Vingorla, Kanitkarl 

 Deccan : Lanoli, Woodrow. S. M. Cou:»try : Eamgliat, Biichie, 401 ! Kanaka : 

 Thomson \ — Disteib. Throughout India ; China, Philippines. 



9. Blumea eriantha, T)G. in Wight, Contrih. (1834) p. 1.5. 

 Herbaceous ; stem erect, terete, slender, 12-18 in. high, more or less 

 pubescent, dichotoraously branched. Lea\-es 1-3 by g-lg in., irregularly 

 apiculately toothed, the teeth sometimes alternately long and short 

 especially in the upper leaves, the lower leaves petioled, obovate, sub- 

 obtuse, the upper sessile or nearly so, elliptic-oblong, acute, all pubescent 

 or sometimes silky-villous. Heads 5-3 in. in diam., on the long slender 

 silky-hairy peduncles of dichotomous cymes. Corolla-lobes of ^ flowers 

 hairy. Eeceptacle glabrous. Invol.-bracts linear, clothed with long 

 silky hairs. Achenes minute, angled, with a few hairs on the angles, 

 n. B. I. V. 3, p. 266 ; AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648 ; 

 Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 458. — Flowers : Dec.-Feb. Yebn. 

 Nimurdi. 



Konkan: Law\ ; Panvel. Kanitkarl ; Uran Island, Kanitkarl Deccan: Khandala, 

 Cooke ! ; between Nasik and Igatpuri, Eclgeworth ! ; Lanoli, Cooke ! ; Poona, Woodrow \ 

 S. M. Country: Belgaum, Ritchie, 400 ! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula, Banda). 



10. Blumea Belangeriana, T)C. Prod. v. 5 (1836) p. 444. 

 Herbaceous ; stem erect, terete, much branched from and sparingly 

 hispid at the base, softly villous at the apex, the stem and branches 

 usually red-brown. Lower leaves 2-3 by 1-1| in., obovate, attenuated 

 into a short petiole, the upper leaves subsessile, elliptic-oblong, all 

 closely dentate, sparsely hairy above, densely sericeo-villous beneath. 

 Heads ^ in. in diam., axillary, sessile, solitary or clustered. Corolla- 

 lobes of 5 flowei's hairy. Eeceptacle glabrous. Invol.-bracts linear, 

 woolly. Achenes terete, nearly glabrous. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 266. — 

 Flowers : Dec-Mar. 



Konkan : Stocks \, Lau- ! ; S. Konkan and Ghals, Biichie, 398 ! ; Matheran, Cooke ! ; 

 Vingorla, Kanitkarl Kanara : Laiul; Sirsi (N. Kanara), Hohcnhacker, ''iTi \ — 

 Distrib. Apparently endemic in the Konkans and Malabar. 



11. Blumea Malcolmii, Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 3 (1881) p. 266. 

 A rather stout plant, densely clothed with soft white silky wool; stem 

 leafy, usually ascending, but sometimes decumbent and branched from 

 the root as in B. oxyodonta. Leaves 1-5 by t-2| in., sessile, rather 

 thick, obovate, obtuse, acutely and closely irregularly toothed (the margins 

 of the larger leaves sometimes crenate, the crenatures closely set with 

 small spinous teeth), densely clothed with white silky wool, base 

 tapering. Heads ^-| in. in diam., in leafy ]niuicles at the ends of tlie 



