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14. LAGGERA, Sdi.-Bip. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, often rigid and de- 

 finn-ent. Heads paniculate, or subsessile in the uppermost axils, 

 lieterogamous, disciform, the outer flowers 5 , fertile, oo - seriate, those 

 of the disk ^ , fertile ; corollas of the $ flowers filiform, shorter than 

 their styles, minutely toothed, those of the ^ flowers regular, tubular, 

 the limb slightly enlarged, shortly 5-fid. Involucre campanulate ; bracts 

 00 - seriate, imbricate, narrow, often rigid, the outer the shorter. 

 Receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases shortly 2-lobed or sagittate, not 

 tailed. Style-arms of ^ flowers linear-subulate, papillose. Pappus-hairs 

 slender, 1-seriate, free, or very shortly connate at the base. Achenes 

 small, glabrous, or sparingly pilose. — DisiuiB. Tropical Africa and 

 India ; species 2. 



Stem winged 1. L. alafa. 



Stem not winged 2. L. aurita. 



1. Laggera alata, SchuUz-Bip. ex Oliver, in Trans. Linn. Soc. v. 29 

 (1875) p. 94. Herbaceous; stem erect, branched, winged, clothed with 

 fuscous or rufous (often glandular) pubescence. Leaves sessile, de- 

 current so as to form the quite entire wings on the stem, 1-4 by 

 ^-1^ in., narrowly oblong, obtuse or subacute, toothed or rarely entire, 

 ])ubescent or subvillous on both sides. Heads 1 or few, g-§ in. in diam. ; 

 ])eduncles axillary, solitary, often drooping, bracteate ; flowers purple. 

 Involucre campanulate ; bracts many-seriate, the outer lanceolate, acute, 

 much shorter than the inner, pubescent outside, the innermost scarious, 

 subglabrous, linear, acuminate. Anthers ecaudate. Pappus white. 

 Achenes cylindric, slightly ribbed, appressedly pilose. PI. B. I. v. 3, 

 p. 271 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. lud. p. 91 ; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 23. 

 Blumea cdata, DC. Prodr. v. 5, p. 448 ; Grab. Cat. p. 97 ; Dalz, & Gibs, 

 p. 125 ; Wight, Icon. t. 1101.— Flowers : Nov.-Jan. 



KoNKAN : Law !, Balzell ! ; on the Ghats, Balzell cf- Gibson. S. M. Country : 

 Belgaiim (east hills), Eitchie, 1820! Kanaka: K'lla naddi, Rifchie, 1820!— Distrib. 

 India (Tropical Himalayas, hills of the W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Java, China, 

 Philippines, Tropical Africa. 



2. Laggera aurita, Sclmltz-Bip. in ScJiweinf, Beitr. Flor. AefJiiop, 

 (1807) p. 151. A perennial herb 1-3 ft. high ; stem erect, slender, 

 cylindric, with many ascending branches, viscous-hairy, not winged. 

 Leaves numerous, sessile or petiolate, membranous, shortly decurrent, 

 obovate or oblanceolate, toothed, lobed or |-piiinatifld, the lower 2-4 in. 

 long, the upper much smaller often bract-like on the branches, all 

 viscous-hairy on both sides. Heads peduncled, ^-^ in. in diam., in 

 corymbose or diffuse terminal panicles ; flowers ])ink. Invol. -bracts 

 linear, very acute, the outer very short, silky-hairy, herbaceous, the 

 inner much longer, scarious. Pappus white. Achenes thinly hairy, 

 obscurely ribbed. PI. B. I. v. 3, p. 271 ; C. B. Clarke, Comp. In'd. 

 p. 92 ; Trim. PI. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 24 ; W^att, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 584. 

 Bhnnea aurita, DC. Prod. v. 5, p. 449 ; Grab. Cat. p. 97; Aitch. Pb. & 

 !Sii)d PI. p. 74. — Plowers: Dec.-Peb. 



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