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phylla) ; Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. III. 261. B. trichophora, ^mrvifolia, 

 ^ndi pliyllostachya, DC. I.e. 436, 437, 438. Conyza lactuccefolia, 

 paniculaia, hifoliata, and Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 3088 {in part), 3090Aj 

 8091, 3093. Ericjeron inolle, Don Prod. 172. 



Penang and Singapore : By roadsides, not common. — Distbib. 

 British India and Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, tropical Australia and 

 Africa. 



5. Blumba lacera, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14. An erect herb, 

 2 to 3 feet high ; stems at the base nearly as thick as a goose- 

 quill, adpressed-pubescent. Leaves thickly membranous, oblanceolate 

 obtuse or sub-acute, much narrowed to the petiole, the edges unequally 

 and remotely dentate ; both surfaces olivaceous when dry, the lower 

 somewhat the paler and with thin, pale pubescence ; the upper glabrous, 

 sub-scabrid ; length 1-5 to 2 in. ; breadth -5 to 1 in. ; petiole -3 to '5 in. 

 long. Heads S in. across, sub-sessile or sessile, in small rounded crowded 

 cymes, on slender ebracteate axillary peduncles, 1 to 2*5 in. long, sub- 

 tended by small leaf -like bracts, and occupying the upper half of the 

 stem. Involucral bracts linear-oblong, tomentose, about as long as the 

 pappus ; receptacle naked. Heads -4 in. across, sessile or nearly so, in 

 a lax, shortly-branched, leafy, cymose, pubescent panicle, 12 to 18 in. 

 long. Involucral bracts nearly uniform, linear, acuminate, 1-nerved, 

 puberulous, as long as the pappus. Receptacle slightly convex, naked. 

 Cypselas narrowly oblong, glabrous, not ribbed ; pappus in a single 

 row, white. DC. Prod. V. 436; Clarke Comp. Ind. 76; Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. III. 263. B. Musra, DC. I.e. 435 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. IV. 

 t. 23. B. villosa, Schultz-Bip. in PI. Hohenack. n. 2a. Conyza lacera, 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 428 ; Wall. Cat. 3082. C. thyrsiflora, villosa, and 

 J/wsra, Ham.; Wall. Cat. sub 3082, 3083, 3095. C. lactucifolia, DC. I.e. 

 435; Wall. Cat. 3088 {in part) ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 180, t. 59, f. 1. 



Perak : (Scoj-fec/iwii 141, 1430. Singapore: Gantley; Hullett 227. 

 — DiSTRiB. British India, Ceylon, Malay Archipelago, China, tropical 

 Africa. 



6. Blumea membranacba, DC. Prod. V. 440. A rigid erect herb, 

 1 to 2 feet high ; stem at the base half as thick as a goose-quill, 

 minutely pubescent from base to apex, terete, striate. Leaves thinly 

 membranous, oblanceolate, much tapered to the base, sub-sessile, the 

 apex acute, the edges coarsely and often irregularly dentate, sometimes 

 lobulate ; both surfaces pale olivaceous-brown when dry, the lower 

 paler, sparsely strigose ; main-nerves 7 to 9 pairs, spreading, faint on 

 both surfaces ; length 2 to 3*5 in. ; breadth -8 to 1-5 in. ; the leaves of 

 the upper part of the stem smaller and bract-like. Heads -25 in. in 

 diam., sessile or sub-sessile, in spikes several inches long, from the 



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