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LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 261 



2. B. bifoliata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. v. 434; often pro- 

 strate with ascending branches, pubescent villous or glabrate, branched from 

 the base, leaves 1-3 in. sessile obovate or oblong serrate obtuse or acute 2 upper- 

 most on the branches sub-opposite, heads \-^ in. solitary on the branchlets 

 peduncled, inner in vol. bracts acuminate, receptacle glabrous, corolla yellow, 

 lobes of $ hairy, achenes narrowly oblong with 4-5 hairy angles, pappus white. 

 Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 145 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 186 ; Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 72. B. amplectens, Thwaites Enum. 163 in part (O.P. 3523). B. 

 oligocephala, DC. in Wight Contrib. 13 ; Prodr. v. 434. B. anagallidifolia, IK'. 

 Prodr. v. 434. Oonyza bifoliata, Willd. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 431. 0. foliolosa, 

 anagallidifolia and amplexicaulis, Wall. Cat. 3092, 3098, 3104. 



BENGAL, the WESTERN PENINSULA, BIRMA, the MALAY PENINSULA and CEYLOX. 



Best distinguished from B. amplectens by the serrate (not dentate) leaves, the two 

 upper of which on each Lranch are usually opposite, and by the tips of the invol. 

 bracts not being hair-pointed. B. anagallidifolia is a very small leaved state. 



SECT. II. Heads many, villous, small, - in. diam. (- in B. hieracifolid) , 

 more or ]'>< clustered and forming dense oblong spikes or contracted panicles at 

 the top of the stem, exceptionally arranged in loose open corymbs. Erect or 

 ascending stout or slender herbs, usually very villous silky or woolly, often 

 glandular, rarely 2 ft. high. Leaves toothed or serrate, seldom deeply gashed. 

 Pappus white. (Corymbs often loose in B. barbata, and sometimes in all the 

 others. Branches prostrate in B. nodiftora. See B. Belangeriana in Sect. IV.) 



3. B. Wig-htiana, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14 ; Prodr. v. 435 ; villous 

 silky hairy or woolly, sometimes glandular, stem erect subsimple very leafy, 

 leaves petioled obovate irregularly toothed or serrate, heads % in. collected into 

 terminal spiciforni dense (rarely open) cymes or panicles, invol. bracts narrow 

 acuminate, receptacle glabrous, corolla purple, lobes of Q glandular, achenes 

 terete or 4-5-angled not ribbed sparsely hairy. Clarke Comp. Ind. 74; Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 186 (excl. syn. hymenophylla). B. trichophora, 

 parvifolia and phyllostachya, DC. Prodr. 436, 437, 438. Oonyza lactucaefolia, 

 paniculata, bifoliata and Wightiana, Wall. Cat. 3088, in part, 3090 A., 3091, 

 3093. Erigeron molle, Don Prodr. 172. 



Throughout the plains of INDIA from the outer Himalaya and the Punjab east- 

 wards and southwards; and in CEYLON, BIRMA and the MALAYAN PENINSULA. 

 DISTRIB. Malay Islds., China, Australia, Tropical Africa. 



Similar to B. lacera, but easily distinguished by the small heads, purplii-fh flowers, 

 and hairy achenes. A very glabrous variety with large membranous/long-petioled 

 leaves, 4 by 1^ in. from Kangoon may be tine "B. hymenophylla, D.," quoted by 

 Kurz as a synonym of Wightiana, but which is not DC.'s plant of that name. 



4. B. neilg'herrensis, Hook.f. ; densely softly villous and silky, stem 

 simple stout erect or ascending, leaves 3-4 in. obovate or oblong-obovate sessile 

 or narrowed into a petiole regularly sharply gland-toothed, heads in. diam. 

 very numerous in axillary clusters forming an oblong or rounded terminal spike 

 or panicle, invol. bracts almost filiform softly silky, recept. glabrous, corolla 

 purple, lobes of $ glabrous, achenes glabrous angled, pappus in. white. 



NILGHERRY and PULXEY HILLS, Wight, Gardner. 



This is a mountain plant, near Wightiana in its purple flowers, but has a denser 

 inflorescence, larger head, glabrous achenes, and very regularly toothed leaves. As in 

 all Blumeas, the villosity or hairiness is a very inconstant character; this plant is 

 sometimes as silky as B. Belangeriana. 



5. B. subcapitata, DC. Prodr. v. 439; pubescent, sparsely villous 

 upwards, stem slender simple, leaves denticulate radical long-petioled mem- 

 branous obovate or eloi'gate-obovate entire or serrately or subpinnatifidly lobed 



