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(or more), linear-lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous or almost glabrous, 

 1-nerved, longer than the copious white pappus ; corolla-lobes hairy ; 

 receptacle and cypselas silky, white. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 268. 

 Conyza chinensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 862 ; Blume Bijdr. 898. B. longispina, 

 Zoll. et Morr. Syst. Verz. 121. G. serici-vestita, Wall. Cat. 2996b. 

 Eaccharis nitida, Wall. Cat. 3043. 



Penang: Ciirtis 2824; Wallich 2996, 3043. Singapore: Bidlei/ 

 2744. Perak : Scortechini 1471. 



Var. rijmria, King & Gamble. Young leaves and stems somewhat 

 hairy ; main-nerves of leaves 3 to 4 pairs, depressed on the upper 

 surface. Blumea riparia, DC. Prod. V. 444 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 85. 

 Conyza riparia, Blume Bijdr. 899. 



Perak : King's Collector 1214 ; Scortechini. — Distrib. Java, 

 Borneo. 



2. Blumea balsamifera, DC. Prod. V. 466. A shrub, 6 to 12 feet 

 high ; young branches nearly as thick as a goose-quill, tomentose, 

 striate. Leaves thickly membranous or sub-coriaceous, elliptic-lanceo- 

 late, coarsely and unequally serrate dentate or sub-entire, acute or 

 sub-acute, narrowed at the base ; upper surface dark olivaceous-green, 

 minutely tomentose or strigose, the lower surface with dense silky 

 cinereous-yellowish tomentum ; main-nerves 7 to 10 pairs, curved, 

 ascending, faint on both surfaces, but especially on the lower ; length 

 2 to 3 in. ; breadth -75 to 1*5 in. ; petioles -2 to -75 in. long, the longer ones 

 often with lateral auricles ; in the lower part of the branches the leaves 

 often much larger. Heads sub-cylindric, sessile, or on short pedicels, 

 arranged in large, lax, and spreading or dense, often leafy, corymbose 

 or panicled, axillary and terminal tawny-tomentose cymes. Involucral 

 bracts linear, acuminate, densely tomentose ; hermaphrodite florets very 

 numerous in the centre, narrowly tubular ; receptacle naked. Cypselas 

 10-ribbed, silky ; pappus copious, red. Clarke Comp. Ind. 89 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. Burm. II. 82 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 270 ; Prain Bengal 

 Plants, 598. Conyza balsamifera, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II. 1208 ; Wall. 

 Cat. 2998 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 427. C. vestita, Wall. Cat. 2998. C. 

 appendiculata Blume Bijdr. 895 {not of Lam.). 



Malacca: Griffith (K.D.) 3143; Hervey. Penang: Walker 160; 

 Scott ; Curtis 29. Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector 6343 ; Wray 

 1741. Singapore : G. Thomson ; Hullett 372 ; Bidley 2742. Johore : 

 King. — Distrib. British India, Malay Archipelago. 



Var. angustifolia, King & Gamble. Leaves narrowly oblong, acute 

 at both ends, less than -5 in. broad. 



Singapore : Ridley 2742. 



3. Blumea glomerata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 15. An erect 



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