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axils of small leaf-like bracts, arranged in a nari'ow pseudo-panicle 

 occupying the upper half of the stem. Involucral bracts linear, acumi- 

 nate, pubescent, 1-nerved, as long as the inner pappus. Corollas very- 

 narrow ; receptacle naked. Cypselas small, glabrous ; pappus white, in 

 two rows, the outer very short. Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 265. B. 

 hymenophylla, DC. I.e. 440. Conyza memhranacea and hymenophylla^ 

 Wall. Cat. 3019, 3038. C. virens, Wall. Cat. 3037d. C. diffusa, Eoxb.. 

 Fl. Ind. III. 429. 



Penang : Curtis 2759; Deschamps. — Disteib. British India, Malay 

 Archipelago. 



9. Laggeka, Schultz.-Bip. 



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

 rent. Heads panicled or axillary, heterogamous, disciform. Outer 

 floioers 2 , in several rows, fertile, filiform, the mouth minutely toothed. 

 Disk-floivers § , in several rows, fertile, tvibular, 5-fid. Involucre cam- 

 panulate ; bracts many-rowed, narrow, often rigid, the outer shorter ;. 

 receptacle flat, naked. Anthers 2-lobed or sagittate at the base ; the 

 auricles obtuse or acute, often unequal, not tailed or connate with the 

 adjoining anthers. Style-arms of the hermaphrodite flowers and the 

 pappus as in Blumea. — Disteib. 9 or 10 species, in tropical Africa 

 and British India. 



Laggeea flava, Benth. in Gen. PI. II. 290. A glabrous or 

 puberulous herb, 6 to 30 in. high; stems striate, simple or corymbosely 

 branched. Leaves membranous, shining, glabrous ; the radical some- 

 times on short petioles ; the cauline sessile ; the lower cauline oblong, 

 acute, cordate and sub-amplexicaul at the base ; the upper cauline 

 smaller and narrower than the lower, lanceolate ; all sharply and un- 

 equally toothed ; main-nerves about 8 pairs, distinct, like the wide 

 reticulations. Heads few, -25 in. in diam., on slender peduncles; 

 receptacle glabrous; corollas yellow; anthers sagittate. Cypselas 

 minute, glabrous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 90; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind, 

 III. 270. Blumea flava, DC. Prod. V. 439. Erigeron falcatum,. 

 Don Prod. 172 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., 1877, II. 191 {excL 

 syn.). Conyza fasciculata. Wall. Cat. 3017. 



Penang : Wallich. — Disteib. British India. 



This has not been collected within our area since Wallich's time. 



10. Pluchea, Cass. 



Shrubs or herbs, tomentose or glutinous. Leaves alternate, dentate 

 or rarely entire, sometimes pinnatifid. Heads usually small, in ter- 

 minal corymbose cymes, or large and sub-solitary, heterogamous, disci- 

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