6. Laqoeea. ] 85. COMPOSITE. [7.ViC0A. 



4. L. aurita, ScK Bip. 



A coarse strong-scented grey-green villous and glandular 

 weed 2-2| ft. high, often much branched f:om the large tap- 

 root/ Stems densely clothed with deeply lobed or pinn>itilid 

 leaves and their decurrent basal lobes. Fls. pale-purple in 

 ovoid heads |-J* long. 



Waste ground, common. Fls. Jany, -March. 



L. H-2|'\ sharply lobed and toothed. The anthers are often shortly 

 tailed and the tails of the adjacent anthers connate '. 



5. L. alata, Sch. Bip. 



A stout leafy herb 2-4 ft. much branched pubescent or 

 tomentose. Fls. purplish, heads drooping in fruit, racemed 

 on short winged branches. 



Fls. Nov.-Jany. 



Easily recognized by the continuous wings of the stem. 



6. B. lacera, D- C. Gada pachwani, 8, 



A herb 1-3 ft. with strong camphorous smell,* softly hairy 

 or villous and more or less glandular hairy. L. obovate or 

 upper oblong, dentate and spinulose-toothed or (var. gian- 

 dulosa) very acutely serrate. Heads yellow, \" long and 

 broad clustered in narrow panicles ; invol. campanulate. 



Waste ground, common. Fls. Jany -March. 



L. on robust plants often 8", on others only 2* often pinnatifid at 

 base, sessile or petioled, silky-pubescent beneath. Gland-hairs very 

 short. Here also the heads are frequently functionally female, the disc 

 .fla. have staminodes ocly, low down in the tube 



Vicoa auriculata, Cass, is a usually much branched annual with 

 •lender rigid stems, sessile lanceolate or oblong lanceolate leaves 1-3* 

 and yellow head" of flowers £-f diam. on slender peduncles. 



Very common in open jungles and much resembling a " ragwort.". 

 Fls. Nov.-March. 



L. with broad rounded auricled base. Anthers tailed. Tappus hairs 

 ■lender. 



• Camphor is prepared from some species of Blumea. 

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