262 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Blumea. 



below the middle, cauline smaller petioled, heads \-^ in. diam. solitary or 2-3- 

 nate in the distant upper leaf-axils and forming a crowded oblong short terminal 

 or cylindric contracted panicle, invol. bracts very slender glabrescent, receptacle 

 glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of Q glabrpus, achenes nearly glabrous angled, 

 pappus | in. white. Oonyza subcapitata, Wall. Cat. 3056. 



CENf RAL and EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Nipal, Wallicli ; Sikkim, alt. 1-5000 ft., 

 J. D .H. 



I refcainthis species contrary to Mr. Clarke's opinion (who referred it to B. lacera), 

 with diffidence, my Sikkim specimens precisely accord with Wallich's Nipal ones, and 

 I find non of the forms of lacera at all like it. 



6. B. barbata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14: Prodr. v. 434: stem erect 

 subsimple with very long hairs, leaves obovate. or oblanceolate coarsely toothed 

 6r serrate silky beneath, heads in. peduncled in short looe axillary and ter- 

 minal cymes forming an elongate inflorescence, invol. bracts narrowly linear 

 acuminate hairy, recept. glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of glandular, achenes- 

 most minute 5-6-ribbed striate hairy above, pappus white. Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc: 1877, ii. 188, excl. var. ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 73. Conyza barbata, WalL 

 Cat. 3099. 



TRAVANCORE; Pulney Mts., Wight. CEYLON, Central Province, alt. 3-5000 ft., 

 Thwaites. 



Stem 4-10 in., stout or slender. Leaves 1-2| in. often narrowed into a petiole^ 

 membranous, hairy and subglandular above. Heads on slender peduncles. 



7. B. sericans, Hook. f. ; tall, robust, stem simple erect, and leaves 

 beneath densely silvery villous, leaves 2-3 in. lower petioled upper elongate- 

 oblanceolate or linear acuminate minutely toothed/heads in. sessile in crowded 

 axillary and terminal clusters, recept. glabrous, corolla yellow lobes of hairy, 

 achenes silky, pappus white. B. barbata, var. /3 sericans, Kurz in Journ. As* 

 Soc. 1877, ii. 188. 



CHITTAGONG; on hills, alt. 500-1500 ft., Clarke. BIRMA and MARTABAN, Falconer? 

 Kurz. 



This is quite unlike any other species in its long leaves, silvery silky pubescence 

 and inflorescence. 



8. B. g-lomerata, DC. in Wight Contrib. 15 ; Prodr. I. c. 443 ; pubescent 

 or villous, stem erect usually slender, lower leaves petioled obovate serrate or 

 lyrate-pinnatifid upper oblong incised, heads purple ^ in. diam. in small sessile 

 axillary clusters all along the branches, invol. bracts subulate-lanceolate villous, 

 corolla yellow, lobes of ^ and recept. pubescent, achenes 8-10-ribbed glabrous 

 or hairy. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 125. B. fasciculata, DC. Prodr. v. 442; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 81. B. fistulosa, Kurz in Joum. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 187. B. 

 holosericea, racemosa, spinellosa, gracilis, purpurea and leptoclada, DC. I. c. 442, 

 443. B. holosericea and leptoclada, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 125, 126. Oonyza 

 fistulosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 429. 0. racemosa, sericea, glomerata, gracilis, 

 purpurea and holosericea, Wall. Cat. 3002, 3021, 3055, 3064, 3076, 3103. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Kumaon to Sikkim ascending to 5000 ft, and through- 

 out the plains to ASSAM, BIRMA, TENASSERIM and the DECCAN (not in Ceylon). 

 DISTRIB. China, Java, Philippine Islds. 



Very distinct in its normal state from the slender erect branches with rounded 

 axillary clusters of purple sessile heads, which become spiciform. Conyza sericea, 

 Wall., has leaves very silky, especially beneath, and C. holosericea resembles it, but 

 differs from the typical inflorescence of the species in the clusters of flowers being 

 borne on axillary peduncles. See also B. membranacea, var. gracilis. 



9. B. nodiflora, Hook.f. ; stem branched from the base, branches 2-4 

 in. long very slender dichotomously forked, leaves | 1 in. subsessile obovate 



