ConyzaJ] LXXVIIT. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 259 



achenes about ^ in. puberulous, pappus ^ in. reddish. C. absinthifolia, DC. in 

 Wight Contrib. 16; Prodr. L c. 383; Clarke Comp. Ind. 64; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 124. C. pinnatifida, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 61; Fl Ind. iv. 430. 

 Erigeron trisulcum and pinnatifidum, Doii Prodr. 171, 172. Blumea trisulca, 

 DC. I. c. 440. Baccharis trifurcata, Trev. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. xiii. 201, t. 13. 



SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kashmir eastwards, ascending to 5000 ft. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 2-6000 ft. BEHAR and the WESTERN GHATS to TRAVANCORE, PEGU and 

 BIRMA. DISTRIB. Eastern Africa. 



The excessively fastigiately branched and leafy habit of this species, and its 

 minute heads, distinguish it from all others. 



7. C. adenocarpa, Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 125; pubescent and scabrous, 

 stem rather woody below, leaves linear or oblong ^-amplexicaul entire or 

 distantly toothed, heads in. diam. in terminal few-fld. corymbs, invol. bracts 

 lanceolate acute, achenes i in. glandular and puberulous, pappus ^ in. reddish. 



The WESTERN DECCAN and the CONCAN, Dalzell ; highest hills east of Bombay, 

 Eitchie. 



Apparently shrubby below, branches 6-10 in. high. Leaves 1-2 in., usually 

 rounded at the apex, broad and 2-lobed at the base. Heads like those of C. stricta. 



8. C. rufa, Wall. Cat. 3079; tomentose or villous, branched from the 

 base, branches spreading or prostrate, leaves sessile obovate or oblong-obovate 

 or linear-oblong coarsely toothed, heads subglobose | in. diam., invol. bracts 

 broad ovate acute green with membranous margins, achenes ^ in. pubescent 

 with curled hairs, pappus in. reddish shining very caducous as a whole. DC. 

 Prodr. v. 384 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 65. C. marginata, Edgeiv. in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xx. 67. C. hirsuta, Wall. Cat. 3007 B. partly. 



Annual, corymbosely branched, branches 4-8 in. long. Leaves 1-2 in. The 

 broad invol. bracts with defined membranous margins distinguish this from all other 

 Indian species. 



EXCLUDED SPECIES. \ 



C. SERRULATA, Wall, of Clarke Comp. Ind. 64, is not the plant of Wallich, and is 

 altogether doubtful. 



C. PATULA, Ait. Hort. Kew iii. 184; Miller Icon. t. 247; referred to as Cyanopis 

 pubescens, in DC. Prodr. v. 69, is probably a Vernonia. See Eupatorium glabrum, 

 Wall. Cat. 3283, ex Herb. Heyne (Decaneuron glabrum, DC. I. c. 67), of which there 

 is no specimen in Wallich's Herbarium. 



25. THESPIS, DC. 



A branched glabrous annual. Leaves alternate, toothed. Heads minute, 

 globose, sessile in globose . clusters on the branches of dichotomous cymes, 

 heterogamous, disciform, yellow ; outer fl. $ , many-seriate, often without 

 corolla, fertile ; disk.-fl. ^ , few, regular, sterile, tube very short, limb narrowly 

 campanulate 4-fid. Involucre hemispheric; bracts broad, obtuse, herbaceous, 

 sub-2-seriate ; receptacle flat or convex, naked. Anther-bases obtuse, entire or 

 2-fid. % Style-arms short, flattened, subacute. Achenes of $ small, hardly 

 ribbed ; pappus-hairs about 10, short, dilated. 



1. T. divaricata, DC. Prodr. v. 375 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 20 ; T. erecta, 

 DC. I. c. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 65. Cotula sinapifolia, Roxb. in Wall. Cat. 

 3237, G. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nipal and Sikkim, Wallich, &c. EASTERN BENGAL, ASSAM, 

 SILHET, CACHAR, BIRMA and TENASSERIM. 



A variable weed from 3 in. to 2 ft. high, robust with spreading branches. Leaves 

 sessile or narrowed into a petiole ^-1^ in., obovate, toothed. Heads in. diam. 



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