264 LXXVIIJ. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Blumea. 



branches solitary or several from the base, leaves chiefly radical often almost entirely 

 villously silky beneath, heads in spiked fascicles. B. Hamiltoni, DC. I. c. 439. 

 Grnaphalium Hamiltoni, Wall. Cat. 2938. Habit often that of Antennaria hyperborea. 

 See B. crinita, Arn., and Belangeriana, DC., which may be southern forms of this. 



12. B. ang-ustifolia, Thwaites JEnum. 165 ; glabrous or puberulous, 

 stem erect slender subsiniple, leaves 1-3 in. all linear-oblong or lanceolate 

 subobtuse narrowed at the base quite entire or obscurely toothed, heads few all 

 peduncled crowded or corymbose, peduncles tomentose or glabrous, invol. bracts 

 linear-lanceolate pubescent or sparingly villous, recept. glabrous, achenes nearly 

 glabrous. Clarke Comp. Ind. 81. 



CEYLON; central province, alt. 1-3000 ft.. Moon, Thwaites. 



Stem 1 ft., procumbent, branched and rooting below. I have seen but few 

 specimens. 



,SEOT. III. Heads many, small, -| in. diam., peduncled in open corymbs 

 or p;imc-lr-s v/tth often divaricate branches, rarely clustered. Tall, erect, green 

 herbs ; stem simple ielow, paniculately or corymbosely branched above, glabrous 

 or glandular, rarely villous densely woolly or silky ; leaves, the lower especially, 

 gashed or lacinate ; pappus white. 



13. B. laciniata, DC. Prodr. v. 436; erect, usually stout, pubescent or 

 laxly tomentose, stem branched, leaves usually large membranous runcinate 

 lyrate or subpiunatifid and toothed, heads in. diam. usually in broad open 

 corymbs, invol. .bracts lanceolate acuminate villous, recept. pubescent, corolla 

 yellow, lobes of $ hairy, achenes ribbed silky. Clarke Comp. Ind. 78 ; Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 187. B. runcinata and sonchifolia, DC. I. c. 438. 

 Oonyza sonchifolia and runcinata, Wall. Cat. 3085, 3087 A. C. laciniata, 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 427 ; Wall. Cat. 3100, 3084 B. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Kumaon eastwards, ascending to 4000 ft, in Sikkim. 

 ASSAM, CACHAB and the KHASIA MTS., BEHAB and BENGAL ; rare in the CONCAN, 

 SOUTHERN INDIA and the MALAY PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Malay Islds., China, Philip- 

 pines. 



Usually a taller plant than B. lacera, from which it is difficult to distinguish 

 specimens with leaves more entire than usual, but it is usually more glabrous, and 

 should have a pubescent receptacle ; this latter character is, however, very variable, 

 evanescent in age, and at all times requires a high power to detect. Roxburgh says 

 that this differs from B. lacera in having all the leaves laciniate, to which I suppose 

 may be added its being scentless. The four following species are possibly all re- 

 ducible to laciniata. 



14. B. virens, DC. in Wight Contrib. 14; Prodr. v. 439; quite glabrous, 

 tall, slender, much branched, bright green, leaves membranous irregularly or 

 sinuate-toothed lower petioled obovate lyrate or runcinate upper oblong small 

 very numerous, heads \ in. glabrous on capillary peduncles all in large open 

 much branched panicles with small leaves on the ascending branches, invol. 

 bracts slender ciliolate, recept. very narrow glabrous, corolla yellow, lobes of <J 

 glandular, achenes 8-10-ribbed with spreading hairs. Clarke Comp. Ind. 79 in 

 part. B. lapsanoides, DC. 1. c. 440. Conyza virens, Wall.Cat. 3037 A. B. C. 



UPPER ASSAM, Griffith; BIBMA, Wallich; the CONCAN, CANABA, and NILGHERBY 

 MTS., Wight, &c. 



The perfectly glabrous habit distinguishes this from all other species ; it some- 

 times grows 4 ft. high with a stem as thick as the finger, but is generally smaller. 

 The stem is grooved and green with a few more or less conspicuous yellow slender 

 ribs. 



VAB. minor ; 6-12 in., stem simple slender, leaves long-petioled elliptic ovate or 

 lanceolate toothed or serrulate very membranous. Travancore at Courtallam, Wight. 

 Closely resembles B. membranacea, but the glabrous panicle distinguishes it. 



