10. Blumea.] 78. COMPOSITE. 



2. Florets not purple. Heads small or ms, : — 



a. Heads clustered at tVie ends of the panicle-hranclies. 

 C'ypsele an.y-led, rarely also faintl.y ribbed :— 

 Height 1-2 tt. Lower leaves often lobulate or cut. 



Upper leaves simply toothed 7. laeera. 



I. Heads not clustered (except when j-ouu"-) but 

 pedicels usually divaricate. Cj'psele distinctly 

 ribbed, silky :— 

 Heig'ht 2-3 ft. All leaves more or less deeply lobed 



or gashed. Heads small, receptact, pubescent . 8. Jaciniata. 

 Height 2-3 ft. Leaves variously- cut, Hds, ^S-'S", 

 recept. pubescent ....... 9. Jaequemontii, 



Height 2-6 ft. Leaves very membranous, often 

 glabrous, upper simply toothed. Heads small, 

 under '25", recept. glabrous. Bracts mostly spinu- 



lose-tipped 10. vire»». 



As in virei)^ but bracts tij^ped with hairs . . . Var. 

 C. Heads in very open panicles on slender pedicels, florets 



lemon-yellow or golden. Anthers ecaudate . . . 11. flara. 



1. B. amplectens, DC. 



A herb with several stems from the root, villous above, sparsely 

 hairy and usually reddish below. Leaves oblong or oblanceolate, 

 lower attaining 8"5", upper .j-l'S" amplexicaul, young- hairy, old 

 hispidulous, entire or remotely toothed. Heads yellow, m.s., •25--3" 

 diam., solitary at the ends of long bracteate peduncles 1-1*5" long* 

 (but young- often subcorymbose before the shoots lengthen). Invol.- 

 bracts almost filiform, outer hairy and with capillary tips. Recep- 

 tacle rather convex. Lobes of herm. fl. hairy. Cypsele minute, 

 sparsely hairy witli a crown of minute pales and few deciduous hairs. 



Khandpara State, near the Mahanadi ! Fl. March. 



The heads are sometimes entirely female with a ring of empty eca\idate anthers 

 round the style of the central flowers. 



2. B. oxyodonta, DC. 



A small species with many decumbent branches 4-10" long spread- 

 ing from the root, with oblong, elliptic or mostly obovate leaves -5-1", 

 rarely the lower ones attaining 3" and petioled, those on the branches 

 sessile, thinly hairy to tomentose, nerves excurrent as spinulose 

 teeth. Heads subsolitary or clustered or panicled about "2" long, on 

 short or long often tomentose and glandular pedicels. Tnvol. bracts 

 linear with scarious margins, nearly glabrous or pubescent or tomen- 

 tose. Cypsele nearly glabrous 8-10-ribbed. 



Common in open pasture lands. Bettiah, Clarke ! Throughout Chota Nagpur 

 ascending to Parasnath ! Prol)ably throughout the province. Fl., Fr. Jan. -June. 



3. B. Hamiltoni, DC. Syn. B. hieracifolia, var. Hamilton!, F.B.I. 

 An erect softly lanuginous herb 1-2 ft. high with one or several 



stems from a rosette of radical leaves scarcely branched, bearing- 

 distant clusters of lemon-yellow flowers in the axils of bractiform 

 leaves and densely fascicled at the top of the stem. 



Damp pastures and open wet ground. Neterhat .3000 ft. ! Fl. May- June. 



A pretty species easily recognised from its white woolly stems. L. oblanceolate 

 lower 1-3" cottony beneath, regularly dentate with snaall teeth, base tapering, 

 petiole 0. upper leaves gradually .smaller. Heads ovoid -25" by -15", shortly pedi- 

 celled, rarely -5" in fruit. Bracts linear villous. Cypsele brown slenderly 5-ridged 

 and thinlj- pubescent. 



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