Conyza. — Grangea. 967 
N. d. N.f. N. v. Common in waste places, often in deep sandy 
places. — O. Dakhel. 
Local name: dimsis (Schweinfurth) ; nashshash-ed-dubban (G. Roth); 
Kodda. ; 
Extends through Tropical Africa and eastward through India to China 
and Australia. Very variable in depth and breadth of the leat-lobes. 
1328. (3.) Conyza Dioscoridis Desf. Tabl., ed. II (1815) p. 114. 
— Boiss. Flor. Or. III, p. 217. — Aschers.-Schweinf. Ilustr. Flor. d@’Eg., 
p. DC. no. 531. — Sickenberg. Contrib. Flor. d’Eg., p. 245. — Pluchea 
Dioscorides DC. Prodrom. V., p.450. — Baccharis Dioscorides L. Amoen. 
IV, p. 289. — Baccharis aegyptiaca Forsk. Flor. aeg.-arab., p. 213. 
Conyza baccharioides Schultz Bip. in Herb. Abyss., sect. I no. 146. — 
Blumea baccharioides Sch. Bip. in Herb. Schimp. Abyss., sect. II no. 1018. 
— Conyza modatensis Sch. Bip. in Schweinf. Beitr. Flor. Aeth., p. 144. 
— Shrub of 1,80 m or more in height. Branches terete, striate, 
more or less puberulous or pubescent towards the extremities, rarely 
glabrous. Leaves oval-oblong, narrowly elliptical or linear-lanceolate, 
acute or subacute, narrowed towards the sessile or shortly petiolate 
often auriculate-cordate base, serrate, denticulate, or subentire, 
puberulous or glabrous, 2—5 ecm long, 5 mm to 2 cm wide, mem- 
branous. Flower-heads campanulate or ovoid, 2-—3 lines wide, 
pedicelled or usually sessile, few together in stalked clusters, collected 
in ample much-branched corymbose or globose terminal panicles. 
Involucral bracts many-seriate; inner linear or linear-lanceolate, 
acute or apiculate, sometimes fimbriate-dentate, glabrous or nearly 
so, caducous; outer shorter, ovate, puberulous or pubescent, acute or 
obtuse, and apiculate, persistent. Receptacle narrow, naked. Achenes 
glabrous or nearly so, 4—7-ribbed, angles paler. Pappus of 1 series, 
sordid. — Flow. February to April. 
M. ma. M. p. N.d. N.f. N. v. O. D. i. D. asept. Rarely culti- 
vated in gardens, often subspontaneous. 
Local name: harnif. 
Occeurs also in Tropical Africa, Natal, Arabia and Palestine. 
547. (7.) Grangea Adans. 
Capitula heterogamous, disciform; outer flowers 1—co-seriate 
female, disk-fl. co bisexual. IJnvolucre at first hemispherical, scales 
pauciseriate nearly equal, inner with membranous margins. Receptacle 
convex or conical naked. Corolla of the female flower narrow- 
tubular, mouth toothed 2—4-fid; of the bisexual flower campanu- 
late, 4—5-fid narrowed into slender tube. Anther-base obtuse. 
Style-branches with short deltoid appendix. Achenes subterete or 
