266 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Blumea* 



SECT. IV. Heads few, rarely many, small, \-% in., usually peduncled and 

 forming loose axillary and terminal corymbs but often clustered. Prostrate or 

 decumbent rarely ascending or erect herbs, woolly villous or silky, branches 

 usually dichotomously forked ; leaves acutely irregularly toothed, the teeth 

 often subspinescent ; pappus white. 



18. B. oxyodonta, DC. in Wight Contrib. 15; Prodr. v. 444; prostrate, 

 pubescent villous or tomentose, branches spreading from the root leafy slender 

 dichotomously forked or simple, leaves spinulose- toothed lower ^-3 in. petioled 

 obovate membranous, upper obovate or oblong sessile, heads \ in. diam. on 

 slender peduncles solitary or few corymbose, invol. woolly or glabrate, recept.. 

 glabrous, corolla yellow lobes of Q glabrous, achenes sparingly silky. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 85. Conyza tenera, Watt. Cat. 3023. 



WESTERN TROPICAL HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Nipal, and southwards to 

 CANARA, BEHAR, BENGAL, PEGU and BIRMA. DISTRIB. China, Philippine Islds. 



Smaller than most species and easily recognised by its decumbent habit. Clarke 

 observes that in all the specimens he has examined those anther-cells which are tailess 

 are empty of pollen, and Kurz suspects it is a hybrid, or a polygamous form of some 

 other species. 



19. B. eriantha, DC. in Wight Contrib. 15; Prodr. v. 444; pubescent 

 or tomentose or clothed with scattered long hairs, rarely silkily villous, stems 1 

 ft. slender dichotomously branched from the base, leaves 1-3 in. acutely irregu- 

 larly toothed lower petioled obovate obtuse, upper sessile obovate or oblong 

 acute, heads small \-^ in. mostly on the long slender peduncles of dichotomous 

 cymes rarely fascicled, peduncles and invol. clothed with long silky hairs, 

 recept. glabrous, achenes very minute, angles obtuse sparingly silky. 



The CONCAN, Law. BANDA, Edgeworth. 



Usually very slender, with divaricate dichotomous branches, and heads with long 

 slender peduncles; but some specimens are nearly as robust as B. Malcolmii, and 

 almost as silvery-villous ; the heads are, however, not half the size, and the achenes 

 are smaller, and it is perhaps a var. of oxyodonta. 



20. B. BXalcolmii, Hook.f. ; densely clothed with soft white silky wool, 

 stems leafy ascending stout forked rarely decumbent from the root, leaves 1-4 

 in. sessile leathery obovate very obtuse acutely closely jaggedly toothed, heads 

 | f in. diam. fascicled towards the ends of the branches or remote and pe- 

 duncled villous with long white silky hairs, recept. glabrous, achenes obscurely 

 angled silky. Pluchea lanuginosa, Clarke, Comp. Ind. 95. 



The CONCAN ; hills above 2000 ft., Law ; Belgaum and Velloor on the Fort walls 

 (heads smaller), Ritchie. 



The stout habit, dense silvery woolly clothing, and sparse often peduncled heads 

 of this species are its most prominent characters. The buds at the crown of the 

 root form globose woolly bodies, often clustered together ; the jagging of the leaf- 

 margin is very close and irregular. I have not seen specimens of the Pluchea lanu 

 ginosa, described by Clarke, who tells me that this is the same plant. 



21. B. Belang-eriana, DC. Prodr. v. 444; silkily woolly especially the 

 leaves beneath, branches dichotomously forked strict leafy, lower leaves 2-3 in. 

 petioled obovate finely toothed, upper sessile oblong coarsely toothed, heads ^ in. 

 diam. sessile axillary solitary or clustered, invol. bracts woolly, recept. glabrous, 

 corolla lobes of $ hispid, achenes (unripe) glabrous. B. Metziana, Schultz- 

 Bip. PL Hohenack. n. 777. 



The CONCAN, CANARA and MALABAR, Law, Ritchie, &c. 



Usvmliy much branched, tlio branches a foot long, stiff, and often red-brown. 



SECT. Y. Heads large, .}- in. diam., usually clustered and axillary, or Jis- 



