Sliimea."] LXXVIIT. COMPOSIT/E. (J. D. Hooker.) 263 



more or less toothed glabrous, heads in. in dense axillary globose clusters 

 round the branches at 'the leaf axils and terminal, invol. bracts linear acute 

 white woolly, recept. and unripe achenes puberulous. 



PEGTT ; Prorae. M'Clellandl, TENASSERIM and MERGT:I, Griffith, Heifer. 

 The clusters of heads resemble those of Altenanthera nodiflora. 



10. E, lacera, DC. Prodr. v. 486; hairy villous or glandular, rarely 

 glabrescent, stem ^ivet simple or branched very leafy, leaves petioled obovate 

 toothed or serrato rarely lobulate, heads in. in short axillary cymes and, 

 collected into terminal spieiform panicles rarely corymbose, invol. bracts narrow 

 acuminate hairy, recept. glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of nearly glabrous, 

 achenes sub- 4-gouous not ribbed glabrate. Clarke Comp. 2nd. 76. B. Musra, 

 DC. 1. c. 435; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 23. B. leptoclada, Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 

 125, not of DC. B. villosa, Schidtz-Bip. in PL Hohenack. n. 2a. Conyza 

 lacera, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 428 ; Wall. Cat. 3082. 0. thyrsinora, villosa' and 

 Musra, Ham. ; Wall. Cat. sub 3082, 3083, 3095. C. lactucEe folia, DC. I. c. 435 ; 

 Watt. Cat. 3088 in part ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 180, t. 59, f. 1. 



Throughout the plains of INDI4, from the N.W. ascending to 2000 ft. in the 

 Himalaya, to Travancore and Singapore, and in CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay Islds., 

 China, Tropical Africa. 



It is 'very difficult to separate this in the Herbarium from B. Wightiana (which 

 see), it is even more variable ; when living, the yellow flowers at once distinguish it. 

 The smell and glabrous receptacle should distinguish it from laciniata, but the latter 

 character is very difficult to see in the last-named plant. Smells strongly of 

 turpentine (Roxburgh). 



VAR. glandidosa; whole plant more or less glandular. B. ,glandulosa, DC. in 

 Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. 4,38. B. Heyneana, DC. I. c. 15 and 441. B. trigona, 

 DC. I.e. 437. Conyza Heyneana, Wall. Cat. 3089. ?B. napifolia, DC. I. c. 440. 

 Conyza napifolia, Wall. Cat. 3075 (heads small). This passes into C. membranacea, 

 var. major. 



VAR. cinerascens ; hoary or clothed with soft white pubescence, leaves obovate 

 often simple petioled and toothed as in B. lacera, corymbs often effuse, receptacle pube- 

 rulous. B. cinerascens, DC. Prodr. v. 438. B. runcinata, Wall. Cat. 3087 B. Hot 

 valleys of the Himalaya from Nipal to Bhotan. 



11. B. hieracifolia, DC. in Wight Cmtrib. 15; Prodr. v. 442; tomen- 

 tose villous or copiously woolly or silky, stem usually robust and simple some- 

 times scape-like, lower leaves elliptic or oblong petioled serrate or toothed upper 

 sessile often entire, heads ^-f in. diani. more or less fascicled or spiked forming 

 elongate panicles rarely corymbose, invol. bracts lanceolate acuminate, receptacle 

 glabrous, corolla yellow lobes of $ glabrate, achenes hairy. Wight. Ic. 1. 1099 ; 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 82 ; Kurz in Jown. As. 8oc. 1877, ii. 188. Erigeron 

 hieracifolia, Don Prodr. 172. Conyza hieracifolia, Spreng. Syst. iii. 524. 



Throughout the hi^ly parts of INDIA, from the outer Himalaya in Kumaon east- 

 wards and southwards to the NILGHERRY Mrs. and MARTABAN. DISTRIB. Java. 



The robust habit of the larger form, and scapigerous habit of the smaller, are 

 amongst the best characters of this most variable plant. A form (Conyza natans, 

 Herb. Ham.) floats on tanks in Bengal. See also 23. B. crinita and Zb.flexuosa. 



VAR. 1. typica; simple or sparingly branched, 'often scapigerous, leaves oblong 

 crenulate or with small teeth silkily villous beneath, heads in a dense terminal cluster 

 or spike. 



VAR. 2. macrostachya ; tall, robust, paniculately branched above, leaves with 

 spreading hairs beneath, heads in large clusters at the ends of the branches. Var. 

 evolutior, Clarke I. c. B. macrostachya and B. cernua, DC. I.e. 442 and 436. Conyza 

 macrostachya and nutans, Wall. Cat. 3053, 3080. 



VAB. 3. Hamiltoni; small, often clothed with close buff or white cottony tomentum, 



