1 56 The Flowering Plants of Western India. 



leaves crowded, narrow, the lower coarsely toothed, flowers 

 small yellow, in flat-topped panicles, bracts linear, pointed. 



Leaves sometimes pinnatifid (H.). The Ghauts, Matheran. "The 

 commonest composite at Mahableshwar." Cooke. 



C. adenocarpa, rough and hairy, much branched, leaves ppathulate, 

 stem-clasping, flowers small yellow in corymbs, achenes with yellow 

 glands. Highest Ghauts (D.). 



Erigeron. Flowers rayed, onter bracts green, narrow, pappus often 

 double. E. asteroides, hairy plant, leaves ^tern-clasping, ovate or 

 oblong, flowers solitary, rather large, disk yellow, rays lilac. Mdndi, 

 Sousdli. Poona. Konkan ((?.) Not in D. 



Note. The daisy (bellis} and Aster are the best known flowers of 

 this tribe ; but, except Erigeron, the genera given above have flowers 

 not rayed. 



(4) INULOIDE^:. 



9. BLUMEA. 



" The species of this genus may be called the groundsels of India. 

 . . . There is no more unsatisfactory genus . . . the divisions here 

 proposed are most unsatisfactory, and I fear that the scientific 

 diagnosis is not much better. . . . The foliage is sportive to an ex- 

 traordinary degree, as is the pubescence; gland-hairs are common to 

 most species, but the amount varies with the dryness of the locality' 



This will explain the difficulty of identifying the species ; and I 

 may add that there is so little beauty or usefulness in the genus, as 

 far as I know it, that if it disappeaied from the face of the earth 

 altogether, instead of increasing and multiplying as it does, there 

 would be very little to regret. 



Mr. Jaikrisbna Indraji, who gave me a good deal of information 

 about this gen as, says that the strong-smelling species are called 

 generally bhdmurda, chaucJiar mori, and Kdkharunda. 



Note. The flowers are yellow, unless otherwise stated. 



*1. B. amplectens. Branches spreading, leaves oblong, 

 coarsely toothed, flowers stalked, solitary, or in pairs, bracts very 

 slender. 



Common on roadsides (Z>.). H. has a variety near the sea, bushy, 

 smooth and glandular. 



*B. Ufoliata is like this, but the leaves serrate, and tips of the 

 bracts not hair-pointed (H.). Common about Surat (Z>.). 



2. B. glomerata. All grey and hairy, leaves obovate or 

 lyrate, serrate, flowers in clusters all along the branches, some- 

 times in interrupted spikes. 



