258 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Conyza. 



2. C. japonic a, Less.; DC. Prodr. v. 383; erect, villous or woolly, rarely 

 glabrate, leaves sessile obovate spathulate oblong or lanceolate serrate or crenate, 

 heads ^ in. diam. globose, invol. bracts lanceolate with scarious edges, achenes 

 . T \ in. nearly glabrous, pappus in. reddish. C. veronicaefolia, Wall. Cat. 3005 ; 

 DC. I. c. 382; Clarke Comp. Ind. 62. 0. stricta, Wall. Cat. 3044; C. multi- 

 caulis, DC. 1. c. 383. ?C. petiolaris, DC. I. c. ; Wall. Cat. 3282 (no specimen 

 in Herb. Wall.}. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Simla eastwards, and the KHASIA MTS., ascending to 

 5000 ft. PEGU and MARTABAN, ascending to 7000 ft., Kurz. DISTRIB. Affghanistan, 

 China and Japan. 



Annual, 6-12 in., rarely more; stem often simple with well developed radical 

 leaves. The Sikkim specimens are more slender and glabrous than any others. 



3. G. aegyptiaca, Ait. ; DC. Prodr. v. 382; erect, hirsute, leaves lanceo- 

 late or obovate-lanceolate unequally pinnatifidly lobed, lobes ascending, heads 

 ^ in. diam. crowded, invol. bracts lanceolate edges scarious, achenes ~ in. 

 sparingly hairy, pappus | in. reddish. Conyza hirsuta and asteroides, Wall. Cat. 

 3007 B. partly and 3052 B. partly. ? A. Jerdoni, Clarke I. c. 62. 



TROPICAL WESTERN HIMALAYA ; Garwhal, Falconer ; Kumaon, Thomson. DISTKIB. 

 Africa, China, Japan, Australia. 



The more deeply cut leaves and larger- heads, distinguish this from C.japonica. 

 There arc no materials for determining C. Jerdoni, which Mr. Clarke thinks is 

 (egyptiaca. 



4. C. viscidula, Wall. Cat. 3006 ; pubescent and glandular, stem tall 

 corymbosely branched, leaves lanceolate narrowed at both ends entire or serrate, 

 heads in. peduncled in loose corymbs, invol. bracts lanceolate edges scarious, 

 achenes i in. obovoid glabrous, pappus -^ in. reddish. DC. Prodr. v. 383 ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 63. 0. disticha, striata and travancorensis, Wall. Cat. 

 3024, 3065, 3067 : DC. I c. 383, 384. C. serrulata, Wall. Cat. sub. 3024 B. 

 (J. Wallichii, DC. 1. c. 384. C. polycephala, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. 

 06. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Simla eastwards, ascending 4000 ft., and southwards 

 to TRAVANCORE, CEYLON, and BIRMA. DISTR. Philippine Islds., Java, New Caledonia, 

 Australia. 



Much the tallest and most branched of the Indian species, with very uniform 

 leaves 2-4 in. long, and usually loosely cymose heads. 



5. C. ang-ustifolia, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 61; Fl. Ind. iii. 429; woody 

 below, scaberulous, branches slender, leaves sessile long narrowly linear serrate, 

 heads |-j in. in slender open peduncled cymes, invol. bracts lanceolate margins 

 broad scarious, achenes minute sparsely silky, pappus ^ in. reddish very caducous 

 as a whole. DC. Prodr. v. 383; Clarke Comp. Ind. 63; Ham. in Wall. Cat. 

 3071. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2-4000 ft., J. D. H., &c. 



"Roxburgh, who describes this from Calcutta Garden specimens, says it is annual 

 4-8 ft. high, with a simple erect stem ; he did not know its native country, and pro- 

 bably procured it from Hamilton, whose specimens in Wallich's herbarium are called 

 angustifolia. The Sikkim specimens are much smaller, 2-3 ft. Hamilton no doubt 

 procured it from the foot of the Sikkim hills. A specimen of a very similar plant is 

 in Griffith's Affghan Herbarium (n. 918), but it is too young for determination. 



6. C. stricta, Willd. ; DC. Prodr. v. 389; hoary or scaberulously pubes- 

 cent, excessively corymbosely branched and leafy, leaves from narrowly linear 

 to spathulate-obovate entire or toothed rarely pinnatifid, heads in. diam. ex- 

 tremely numerous peduncled corymbose, invol. bracts narrowly lanceolate, 



