10. Blumea.] 78. COMPOSITE. 



glandular or minutely ciliolate. Aclienes pale brown 07 mm. minutely 

 pubescent, not or very indistinctly angled. 



Rather common hut cliieflj^ on the higher hills. Ranchi, Singbhum ami 

 Palamau, 2000 ft., common at Neterhat, 3000 ft. ! Mauhhum, Campbell ! Parasnath ! 

 Santal Parganas, -£'«/•» ! Kalahandi. Cooper \ 



The less hairy and more open-panicled forms in the absence of corolla sometimes 

 resemble smalfforms of B. memhranacea ; they may be distinguished by the linear 

 acuminate involucre bracts -nith softly hairy tips (whereas those of B. membranacea, 

 at least in one form, are more rigid and spinous-tipped), and by the cypseles. 



7. B. lacera, DC. Syn. B. lactucj^folia, DC. ? 



A coarse or rather slender very variable Aveed, often grey in the 

 more silky forms, with a strong camphor or turpentine odour, sub- 

 tomentose or puljescent or very sericeous, or stems below sparsely 

 pilose. Leaves obovate-oblong, sharply, sometimes doubly, toothed, 

 gashed or serrate and lower often lyrate or lobulate, lower or all 

 narrowed into a petiole, always more or less hairy, often densely 

 sericeous beneath. Flower heads yellow in oblong or corymbose, 

 close or open, pubescent or sub-tomentose corymbs at the ends of all 

 the upjDcr branches. Invol. bracts linear or acuminate with scarious 

 margins, more or less hairy, often glandular. Recept. glabrous. 

 Cypsele grey-brown sub-angled, rarely faintly lined, minutely pubes- 

 cent and glabrescent. 



A common weed, growing on roadsides, waste-places, banks of rivers, etc. In 

 all the districts. FL, Fr. chiefly h.s. 



Var. a. L. ell.-obovate attenuate at base, toothed or serrate, densely white silky 

 beneath, about 2-3" long on the stem, uppermost sessile smaller. Heads small 

 •2" long. 



Common. 



Var. /3. Burmanni, F.B.I.? Coarser, lower leaves lyrate-pinnatilid 4 by 2'5''. 

 Heads large "3" long by •2--25" broad (in fresh plant). L. hairy beneath slightly 

 pubescent or sub glabrous above. Corolla "l?" long with sessile glands. 



Purneah ! This may be B. lactuccefolia, DC. If it is it should be kept distinct 

 under that name. 



Var. A. glandulosa, DC. Copiously pilose-glandular in addition to the other 

 indumentum. 



It is rather a form than a variety, such gland hairs being ahvaj^s more or less 

 present. 



Var. S. erianthoides. Leaves 3" scarcely lobulate or entire with the margins 

 closely spinulose with small teeth of diffei'ent sizes, silvery sericeous beneath. 

 Upper part of plant sometimes almost dichotomous from the development of 

 strong axillary branches. 



ChotaNagpur! Fl. Feb. 



This plant exactly matches with one from Bombay named at Kew B. erianfha, 

 DC, but if we discard the procumbent habit of B. erlantha (and the Bombay plant 

 appears to have been erect) there is nothing left to separate it from B. lacera ! 



S. B. laciniata, BC. 



A coarse strongly foetid or aromatic (not camphoraceous) very erect 

 green annual herb 2-4 ft. high with striate leafy stems with thin 

 spreading hairs and stalked glands but often sub-tomentose upwards. 

 Leaves 2-5 -4-5" (or the lowest sometimes nearly 6", usually dry Avhen 

 the plant flowers), irregularly pinnatifid or sharply lobed or cut with 

 the margins often undulate and sinuate, spinulose-toothed, those 

 on the panicle sometimes small simple lobed or toothed, all pubescent 

 hairy and glandular. Heads yelloAv long-pedicelled ovoid ^o" long 

 in large oblong or spreading panicles 4-10" broad of very numerous 

 branches from the leaf axils. Invol. bi'acts linear with green mid-rib 



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