L Veenonia.] 85. COMPOSITE. [4. Conyz*. 



4. V. diverg^ns, Bentlu Bara pathol, 8. 



Stout perennial 4-8 ft., leaves petioled serrate 2-5 by 

 1-4*. Heads \". Fr. glabrous 10-ribbed. Pappus reddish- 

 brown or dirty-white. 



Common on Parasnath (=» V. saligna of Anders. ?) 



5. V. cinerea, Less. Babu tuturi, Barangom, S. 



An erect pubescent herb 1-8| ft. with toothed ovate or 

 lanceolate leaves 1-2|" decurrent on the petiole and terminal 

 sab-corymbose panicles of small heads j" long of light pnrnle 

 flowers, 



Very common everywhere. Fls. most of the year exc. the hot season. 



Inv ol. narrowly cainpanulate. Outer invol. bracts very narrow, softly 

 awned, much shorter than the linear 3-nerved inner. Anthers shortly 

 tailed or sagittate apicnlate. Fr. &' with adpressed pubescence. 



The leaves are eaten. 



Ageratum conyzoides, L., is a very common hairy animal with 

 petioled ovate orenate leaves and small lilac heads in dense terminal 

 corymbs. The upper leaves are sometimes alternate. 



Fl. Oct.-Jan. and also at other times. 



Cnicus arvensis, Hoffm. This is a common European thistle often 

 found in the fields of the cooler parts of-ChotaNagpur, hardly ever in 

 Singbhum. It is dioecious. 



Echinopa echinatus, B.C. with one flowered heads collected 

 together in dense prickly balls like single heads, ia found about Hazari* 

 bagh, etc. Balls 1-2!' diam, 



4. Convza, Less. 5. Laggera, Sch. Bip. 6. Blumea, 



D.C. 



Annnal or perennial, usually glandular* pubescent or woolly 

 herbs with entire toothed, or lobed, sometimes rigid and 

 decurrent leaves. Heads corymbose, panicled or. fascicled, 

 raj^ly racemed, heterpgamqus* Outer fl. female, filiform, 

 2-3-often minutely -toothed. Diss fls. hermaphrodite usually 

 yellow, tubular, 5-toothed, Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; 

 bracts usually many-seriate, narrow,, outer smaller. Becep- 

 tacle usually flat and naked, rarely (in some Conyza) convex, 



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