78. COMPOSITE. [8. Conyza. 



Horliap forest, etc. ! Neterliat ! Singbhum Hills ! Parasnatli ! FL, Fr, Oct.- 

 Dec. 



A very distinct plant, somewhat harshly pubescent all over. Receptacle flat, 

 naked. Anther tips produced as very narrow appendages. 



2. C. viscidula, Wall. 



A tall straight herb 5-6 ft. hig-h with stem very striate as thick as 

 the linger below and with very nvinierous obliquely spreading 

 branches bearing lateral and terminal panicles of pinkish flowers. 

 Leaves lanceolate, lower attaining 8" by 2 5", smaller upwards, entire 

 or shallowly crenate with the sinuses niucronate, those on the flower- 

 ing branches mostly entire. Heads •25" oblong, with pink-tipped 

 bracts and often pink outer florets. Achenes very minute, '02" long, 

 pale with nerviform margin. 



Moist grassy glades. Singbhum, not common ! Hazaribagh, on Parasnath ! 

 Neterhat (Ranchi and Palaniau . elev, 3000 ft. ! Jaigri, Palamau, 3000 ft., Gamble ! 

 Fl., Fr. Dec.-Feb., also April. 



Stems and branches minutely pubescent. Leaves puberulous beneath and on 

 the nerves above, narrowed at base into a short sub-amplexicaul laetiole. 

 Flowering branches more pubescent, repeatedly branched, ultimate l"o-2" long 

 bearing a loose corj-mb of slender-ijedicelled heads. Involucre campanulate with 

 about 20 linear 3-seriate bracts "17" long, bristle-pointed with a green centre and 

 narrow scarious margins, hairy and glandular outside. Herm. -corolla with linear- 

 oblong lobes. Anther cells apiculate. Stigmatic arms long papillose. 



2. C. ambigua, DC. Syn. Erigeron linifolius, Willd. (CZa?7cc, Compos.) 

 A grey or glaucous-green herb, l-2'5 ft. high with visually several 

 erect stems from the root. Stems appressed hairy and also villous, 

 densely clothed with' sessile linear, entire or remotely serrate leaves 

 1 •5-2-5" long by about -2" broad, subtomentose and villous beneath, 

 densely hairy above. Branches of racemose panicle each Avith 1-5 

 heads •15-'2" long and broad in narrow racemiform i^anicles. Bracts 

 many linear with hairy centre and scarious margins, very acute. 

 Outer flowers very numerous pale 15", filiform with 2-3 very minute 

 acute teeth. Disc floAvers slender pale-yellow. Anthers narrow some- 

 what appendiculate. Cypsele pale-brown '05" compressed Avith nervi- 

 form margins sparsely silky. Pappus dirty white as long as the 

 corolla. 



Sunny places, highest hills of Chota Nagpur, over 2500 ft. ! Fl., Fr. April-May. 



Whether this is really Willdenough's ^'Erigeroti lii/ifolius" I am not sure, but it is 

 certainlj^ Clarke's and probably the plant alluded to on p. 2.54, F.B.I.. and 

 repeatedly called by that name in Hei-haria. I doubt its l)emg merely an escape in 

 India. I have found it also in the mountains of Jaunsar, and it has no appearance 

 of being an escape in our province. Ca.ses of perfect naturalisation such as Tridax 

 pi-ocumbeus are hardly parallel, as the.se plants are as much at home in the 

 plains as in the hills and there are no obstacles to their wide spread. 



4. C. SBgyptiaca, Ait. 



An erect strict herb 1-2 ft. high Avith sometimes several stems 

 from the same rootstock, villously hairy and also Avith very short 

 underlying gland hairs. Leaves erect narroAv sessile Avith linear lobes 

 or deeply gashed, 15-2" long. Heads in terminal small panicled 

 corymbs, broadly-oblong or ovoid, about "2" long and broad, yellow 

 but soon becoming Avhite, sub-globose and ^4" diani, Avith a very soft 

 pappus. Cypsele pale, under ^05", compressed oblong-obovoid thinly 

 pubescent. 



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