4. Conyza. ] 85. COMPOSITE. £ 5. Laguiba. 



pitted and fimbriate. Anther bases, obtuse and entire (some 

 Conyza), or sagittate with auricles, tailed (most Blumea) or 

 not (most Laggera). Fr. very small ; pappus slender 1- 

 seriate, often caducous. 



There are 13 species in Chota Nagpur, mostly weeds of 

 waste ground. 



1. C. viscidula, Wall. 



A stout herb 5-6 ft. high with very numerous obliquelj 

 spreading lateral pubescent or tomentose branches with 

 lateral and terminal leafy panicles of pinkish flo wet's. Stems 

 with a close curled pubescence, cauline leaves lanceolate or 

 ell. acuminate attaining 8" by 2£ v shallowly crenate, the 

 sinuses mucronate, narrowed below into the very short half- 

 amplexicaul petiole, puberulous beneath and on the nerves 

 above. L. on the flowering branches lanceolate entire. 



Grassy glades, Porahat and Hazaribagh. Fls., Fr. Jany.'Feby. 



Heads £' oblong, with slender pedicels £" long, in loose corymbs. 

 Invol. campannlate with about 20 3*seriate bristle-pointed 1-nerved 

 green narrowly scarions linear bracts £" hairy and glandular. Recept* 

 depressed, Anther-cells apiculate not tailed. Achenes compressed, 

 puberulous. 



2. C. stricta, Willd. 



A stout herb excessively fastigiately branched and leafy 



with heads only £" in extremely numerous peduncled corymbs. 



Pitorea and Jaspur, Wood. 



Invol. bracts narrowly lanceolate without scarions margin. Pappus ft* 

 reddish. 



3. L. flava, Benth. 



A herb 1-3 ft. erect with lower leaves atnplexicaui 

 auricled attaining 6 V by 2| 7 irregularly toothed and denti- 

 culate. Heads very numerous bright yellow £«J* long 

 with green shining involucre. 



Very common on clay soils in poor open forest Fls. Nov.-Jany. 



A very distinct species, glabrous. Heads campanulate in numerow 

 eymous clusters on leafless branches, often 1-sexual. • 



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