8. CoKYZA.] 78. C0MP081TJE. 



Higher elevations only. On the grassy plateaux of Chota Nagpiir, 3(X)0 ft. ! Fl., 

 Fr. May- June. 



Involucre bracts hispid-hairy in centre, scai-ious at the margins, longest ^2■^" . 

 Outer flowers very many filiform, style far exsert and undivided. Disc fls. com- 

 paratively few '2" long with })ubescent tube and yellow lanceolate lobes. Anthers 

 appendaged. Style branches short below the very narrowly conical or lanceolate 

 papillose tip. Hypanthium silky. Pappus rather scanty, hairs scabrid. 



5. C. japonica, L^ss. 



Perhcips only a variety of the last, smaller, 8-12" high, more rig-idly 

 hairy and leaves not lobed but with sharp deep serratures. Heads 

 smaller ultimately loosely corymbosely panicled. Cypsele minute, 

 thinly shortly silky, pappus as long as corolla. 



Same localities as the preceding. Neterhat, 3000 ft. ! FL, Fr. May-June. 



Lower leaves 15" oblanceolate sub-petioled, cauline oblong 1-15" with amplexi- 

 caul or cordate base. Heads "2" long oblong or ovoid, at firtt in clusters at the top 

 of the stem. Invol. bracts linear '15" hairy with membranous margins. Disc. fls. 

 •15". Anthers produced beyond the cells as in the last. Style arms lance-shaped 

 flattened. 



9. LAGGERA, Sch.-Bip. 



(Here limited to BUimea, Sect. Caulopterae of De Candolle.) 



Usually coarse herbs with leaves frequently sessile or decurrent on 

 the stem. Heads large or m.s. with the outer involucral bracts 

 squarrose at the tip and florets purple. Anther bases raucronate or 

 sagittate without slender tails (though short tails are sometimes 

 present). Other characters' of Blumea. 



Leaf bases decurrent as long continuous wings on the internodes . 1. alafa 



Internodes with deeply lobed or toothed wings nearly glabrous . 2. pterodonta. 

 Internofles not winged, leaves not decurrent or very slightly so, 



villous . 3. aurifa. 



1. L. alata, SchuUz-Bip. Charsira dai'e, <S'. 



A stout much-branched leafy pubescent or tomentose herb 2-6 ft. 

 high easily recognised by the continuous entire wings on the stems 

 and branches. Leaves oblong or oblong-oblanceolate sessile with the 

 decurrent bases forming the wings, 1-4" long -with small mucronate 

 teeth. Heads -So" long and nearly as broad with purple florets and 

 outer involucre bracts -with spreading and recurved tips, usually 2-3 

 subracemose on the numerous axillary branchlets, drooping in fruit. 

 Cypsele silky •03-*04" long with persistent white pappus. 



Grassy places at the higher elevations. Neterhat, common! Farasnath ' Fl., 

 Fr., Nov.- Jan. 



2 L. pterodonta, Benth. 



A stout much-branched leafy glabrous or puberulous herb 3-5 ft. 

 high easily recognised by the deeply toothed, lobed or interrupted 

 wings on the stems and branches, and the sessile oblanceolate leaves 

 wliich are toothed and visually pinnatifid at the base. Heads as large 

 as in the last often on slender peduncles, and with glabrous rigid 

 involucre bracts. 



Ranchi, under trees usually near houses ! Manbhum. CnmpMl ! Fl., Fr. 

 r.s. and c.s. 



The loljes of the wings are usually linear-oblong, very unequal, rounded or acute 

 at tip and sometimes "7" long. 



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