10. Blumea.] 78. COMPOSIT.E. 



clustered on a simple stem. The leaves are membranous, sliarply toothed and 

 sub-lyrate green. 



Para snath ! Cp. B. atropurpufea. 



Var, muralis, J.B.H. Glandular hairy. Leaves elliptic-ovate or lanceolate 

 toothed or serrulate, very membranous, invol. bracts riofid coloured purple like 

 those of a Vemonia. 



Palamau, Gamble Herb. The colouring is, however, not apparent in this specimen. 



11. B. flava, DC. Syn. Lagg-era flava, Benth. ; Moharenti, Or. 



An erect herb 1-3 ft. high Avith ainplexicaul irregularly toothed 

 bright green glabrous, rarely scaberulous leaves, lower attaining 6" 

 by 25", oblong with rounded auricles, iijaper sessile, hastate. Heads 

 small bright yelloAv arranged in cyniose leafless clusters on the 

 branches, with campanulate shining green glabrous involucres. 



Very common on clay soils in poor open forest in Chota Nag-pur ! Champaran ! 

 Angul to Sambalpur ! Fl. Nov. -Jan. 



Leaves often sharply dentate and denticulate. Heads often unisexual, very 

 numerous, 17-"2o" long. 13racts hei'baceous, oblong, inner 1-uerved with hyaline 

 tips or caudate. Receptacle tlat, glabrous. Anthers sagittate, not tailed. Pedicels 

 very slender. Cypsele very minute, glabrous. Pappus white. 



11. PLUCHEA, Cass. 



Tomentose or glutinous or glandular shrubs with alt. leaves an<i 

 heads small in terminal leafless corymbs or large and subsolitary, 

 heterogamous, disciform, white, yellow or lilac. Outer fls. filiform, 

 fern. Inner few, herm. in form, barren, tubular, 5-fid. invol. bracts 

 ovate, usually broad, dry, rigid. Anther Imses sagittate, tailed. 

 Cypsele 4-5-angled, small. Pappus hairs slender free or of the inner 

 fls. connate. 



1. P. indica, Less. 



A low shrub, glabrous or nearly so except the pubescent corymbs. Leaves often 

 gland-dotted, 1-2" long, obovate or oblanceolate sub-serrate, narrowed into the 

 .short petiole. Heads "2.5" diam. with only 3 herm. fls. Invol. bracts manj'- seriate, 

 outer with broad rounded tips, "2" long. 



This shrub of the Sunderljans is only described as it may be found in the delta of 

 the Mahanadi, which contains so many other Sunderbans plants and has been but 

 vei-y imperfectly botanised. 



Fl. Jan. -March. 



12. EPALTES, Cass. 



Herbs with usually decurrent alternate leaves and small hetero- 

 gamous disciform heads with numerous outer female filiform 2-3- 

 toothed fls. and usually sterile centre 3-o-fid. fls. Involucre bract.g^ 

 many-seriate dry rigid. Anther bases sagittate Avith small tails. 

 Cypsele 5-10-ribbed Avith no pappus in the female fl., usually abortive 

 in the centre fls. Avith or Avithout 2-3 caducous pappus hairs. 



1. E. divaricata, Cass. 



A glabrous annual herb Avith divaricate Avinged branches and 

 linear, linear-oblong or lanceolate leaves 1-3" long, narroAved at the 

 base. Heads globose ■25" diam. jDurplish, on Avinged jDeduncles. 

 Invol. bracts sub-spinose at the tips, inner longer than the floAvers. 

 Cypsele •02-03" long obox^ate-oblong. 



Watery places, rice-fields, etc. Chilka Lake, Alcock ! Fl. Oct. -Feb. 



Much dichotomously branched. Leaves sometimes linear-oblanceolate and dis- 



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