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herb, about 18 to 24 in. high ; stem at the base nearly as thick as 

 a goose-quill, sparsely sub-glandular-pubescent, the hairs spreading. 

 Leaves membranous, olivaceous, sparsely strigose on both surfaces, the 

 hairs on the upper surface with bulbous bases ; the lower sessile, 

 lyrately lobed, the lobes dentate, the apex acute ; the upper leaves 

 much smaller, lanceolate, dentate. Heads from "2 to '25 in. in diam., 

 in small sessile clusters of 2 or 3, all in the axils of small leaf-like 

 bracts along the long slender branches, forming a pseudo-spike. Invo- 

 lucral bracts narrowly linear, pubescent, 1-nerved ; receptacle glabrous. 

 Outer florets with very slender corollas. Cypselas faintly 8-10-ribbed, 

 glabrous; pappus in a single row, white, shining. DC. Prod. V. 

 443 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 262. B. fasciculata, DC. I.e. 442 ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 81. B. fistulosa, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 1877, II. 187. B. holosericea, racemosa, spinellosa, gracilis, purpurea, 

 and leptoclacla, DC. I.e. 442, 443. Conyza fistulosa, Roxb. M. Ind. III. 

 429. Conyza racemosa, sericea, glomerata, gracilis, 2)urpurca and 

 holosericea, Wall. Cat. 3002, 3021, 3055, 3064, 3076, 3103. 



Penang : Deschamps. — Distrib. British India, Malay Archipelago, 

 China. 



4. Blumea Wightiana, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14. An erect, 

 little-branched herb, 1 to 3 feet high, covered everywhere with 

 silky white, scanty or copious, soft, sub-adpressed hairs ; stem terete, 

 about as thick as a goose-quill at the base, striate, brown, and nearly 

 glabrous (from the fall of the hairs) when old. Leaves diminishing in 

 size from below upwards, thickly membranous, obovate-oblong or 

 elliptic-obovate, the apex acute or sub-acute, gradually narrowed from 

 about the middle to the short petiole ; the edges with a few irregular 

 coarse teeth, sometimes slightly lobed ; both surfaces olivaceous-brown 

 when dry, and clothed, but especially the lower, with adpressed, short 

 white pubescence ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, faint 

 on both surfaces ; length 1-25 to 3 in. ; breadth -5 to 1-25 in. ; petioles 

 from •] to "25 in. long or even more, sometimes auricled about the 

 middle. Heads paniculate, about -3 or -4 in. across, axillary, solitary or 

 in pairs (reduced cymes), or 4 to 6 in very short rounded axillary cymes 

 on peduncles of varying length, but always short, the upper few inches 

 of the stem crowded by a dense mass of cymes, hivolucral bracts in 

 several rows, diminishing in size outwards, the inner linear, somewhat 

 longer than the pappus, all pubescent and 1-nerved ; receptacle naked. 

 Outer florets very numerous, their corollas very slender. Lmer florets 

 about 4, much wider than the outer. Cyjoselas small, puberulous ; 

 pappus in a single row, white. DC. Prod. V. 435 ; Clarke Comp. 

 lud. 74 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, II. 156 (excl. syn. hymeno- 

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