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stem or branches, all woolly with long white silky hairs. Corollas 

 yellow ; lobes hairy. Invol. -bracts linear, acute, deiisely clothed with 

 long white silky hairs, the outer bracts smaller. Achenes obs'jurely 

 angled, silky. The buds at the crown of the root form globose woolly 

 bodies often clustered together. AVoodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. x. 11 

 (1898) p. 648. Bluraea lanuginosa, Law, MS. in Herb. Kew. Plucliea 

 Malcohnii, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 95. — Flowers : Nov.-Feb. 



KoNKAN : Lambert ! ; hills of the North and South Konkan, Lav: I ; Matheran, 

 C'ooke\ Deccan: Khanclala, Cookel; Mahableshwar, Cooke \ S. M. Country: 

 Yellnr on the Fort walls, Rttchie, 400 ! 



This would seem to have been the plant sent for identification to Sir G. Watt by 

 Dr. Dymock, and noted by the former in Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 4.'>8, under 

 B. eriantha. — Distrib. Apparently endemic in the Bombay Presidency. 



12. Blumea malabarica, Hool\ f. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p. 267. More or 

 less pubescent, 3 ft. high (Ritchie) ; stem and branches terete, grooved. 

 Leaves membranous, fragrant when bruised, subsessile, 12-52 by g-1 in., 

 lanceolate-oblong, acute, distantly serrate, more or less pubescent on 

 both surfaces though often nearly glabrous above, base acute ; petioles 

 short, distinct, not merely formed of the narrowed bases of the leaves. 

 Heads pubescent, g in. in diara., in small axillary sessile or peduncled 

 clusters. Eeceptacle broad, pubescent. Invol.-bracts linear, acute, 

 pubescent, the outer much shorter than the inner. Achenes -^rjj-Yt ^"• 

 long, ribbed, with a few scattered hairs, chiefly towards the apex. 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648.— Flowers : Feb, 



Zlff^^-c// without locality in Hei'b. Kew. ! Koxkan: Stocks'. Kanara : Law \, Stocks'. ; 

 Sirsi, Woodrow ; Uskeli, Ritchie, 1817! — Distrib. India (W. Peninsula). 



13. Blumea spectabilis, DC. Prodr. v. 5 (1836) p. 445. Shrubby, 

 4-6 ft. high; stem stout, glabrous or puberulous. Leaves 6-10 by 

 ] |-2g in., lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, shallowly serrate, glabrons 

 on both sides, much tapered at the base into a long winged petiole 

 which is often furnished with 2-3 small divaricate appendages. Heads 

 5-| in. in diam., on pubescent peduncles, very numerous, forming a 

 large elongated pyramidal lax panicle \^ith narrow leafy bracts beneath 

 tlie branches; flowers yellow. Corolla-lobes of ^ flowers glandular. 

 Invol.-bracts slender, pubescent, the outer rows short and slightly 

 spreading. Pappus at first tawnv. ultimately red. Achenes silky, 

 scarcely ribbed. Fl. B. I. v. 3, p."' 269; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 22. 

 Blumea myriocephala, Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 648 

 {not of DC). B. Wallichii, C. B. Clarke, Comp. Ind. p. 87. B. longi- 

 folia, DC. Prodr. v. 5, p. 446 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 125.— Flowers : Feb. 



Konkan: Stocksl, BaheW. Kanara: Pardana, Ritchie, 1818!; Divimana, 

 Woodrow ; Ghats of N. Kanara, Talbot, 250 I — Distkib. India (W. Peninsula) ; 

 Ceylon. 



Blumea laciniafn, DC. Prodr. v. 5 (1836) p. 4"6, which diflPers from B. larera chieflr 

 in having a pubescent receptacle, is given in Fl. B I. v. 3, p. 264, as occurring (though 

 rarely) in tiie Konkan. I cannot find any authentic specimens of the plant from that 

 region. D;ilzell hiis 2 specimens in his Herbarium which was presented to Kew, but 

 no locality has been assigned to them. Dalzell does not include the plant in his 

 'Bombav Flora,' nor has Woodrow got it in his list. 



