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oblong, acute; achenes sub-glabrous, dark brown; pappus 
reddish. 
Very common by roadsides and in waste places in the low country 
in both wet and dry regions. Fl. Oct.—Nov.; white. 
A native of Tropical America; now found throughout the Tropics. 
8. ERIGERON Linn. 
Pappus white: 
Heads under i in.; leaves cuneate at base, 
irregularly serrate . : : ; ; : 
Heads over i in.; leaves auricled at base, 
closely serrate ‘ : ; ‘ a os 
Pappus rufous; leaves linear, cuneate at base . 3. 
1. E, SUMATRENSIS Retz. Obs. V, p. 28 (17809). 
Annual 2-3 ft.; stem much branched in the upper part, 
hairy, green, furrowed; 1. lanceolate, cuneate at base, irre- 
gularly serrate or entire, densely silky-hairy on both sur- 
faces; heads under + in., numerous, shortly peduncled; in- 
volucral bracts linear, pubescent, with membranous mar- 
gins, not viscous; ray-fls. very narrowly filiform, scarcely 
exceeding the bracts; pappus brownish-white. 
Common in waste places. Fl. Sep., Nov., Apr.; rays pale blue, 
disk pale yellow. _ 
Native of Sumatra. 
For E. linifolius Willd. read: 
3. E. crispus Pourr. in Mém. Acad. Toul. Ill, p..318. (¥788). E- 
linifolius Willd. Sp. Pl. III, p. 1955 (1804); Hk. f. in FI.- Brit. Ind. 
III, p. 254 (1882). Coryza ambiqua DC. FI. Fr. Suppl. p. 468 (1815). 
Tessenia linifolia Bub. Fl. Pyr. p. 266 (1897). Conyzella linifolia 
Greene Fl. Francisc. p. 386 (1891). Conyza angustifolia Thw. ex 
Pie -f. ler (1882), ©.P. 3928 non Hani: 
Annual, 1-2 ft., stem much branched, pubescent or tomen- 
tose, 1. linear, usually entire more rarely linear-lanceolate 
and serrate, densely silky-hairy on both surfaces; heads 2 in., 
on long peduncles; involucral bracts linear, pubescent; ray- 
fls. multiseriate, narrowly filiform; achenes small, narrowly 
oblong, compressed, glabrous; pappus rufous. 
Upper montane zone, local. Hakgala. Fl. Jan., Mar., Sept. 
Native of the Mediterranean region. 
1. KE. sumatrensis. 
. ASTEROIDES. 
. crispus. 
Si ty 
Page 19.—For Blumea amplectens DC. read: 
1. B. obliqua (Linn.). Erigeron obliquum Linn. Mant. p. 573 
(1767). Blumea amplectens DC. in Wight Contrib. p. 13 (1834); 
Petch in Ann. Perad. VI, p. 72 (1916). _Nara-karamba, T. 
Achene purple-brown, not ridged, covered with white ad- 
pressed hairs and with a crown of minute hairs at the apex 
(Petch). 
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