ea.] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE, (J. D. Hooker.) 267 



posed in elongated spikes racemes or contracted panicles. Herbs with long 

 simple or sparingly branched grooved erect or flexuous stems ; leaves 1-3 in., 

 sessile or shortly petioled, glabrous beneath or silky or tomentose, sparingly 

 toothed ; pappus white. Some forms of B. hieracifolia belong here, perhaps 

 also B. chinensis. 



22. B . malabarica, Hook. f. ; pubescent, branches slender elongate 

 flexuous, leaves subsessile membranous linear-oblong acute distantly serrate 

 slightly hairy beneath, heads in. diam. pubescent in small axillary sessile or 

 peduncled clusters, recept. broad pubescent, achenes strongly ribbed nearly 

 glabrous. 



CANARA and MALABAR, Ritchie ; Bababoodan Hills, Law. 



This appears a very distinct species, the leaves are membranous, and have a 

 distinct short slender petiole, quite unlike that formed by the narrowed bases of the 

 leaves ; it is possibly a scandent species. 



23. B. crinita, Am. Pugill. 30; DC. Prodr. vii. 283; pubescent hirsute 

 or villous, stem elongate slender or stout flexuous, leaves scabrid rigid sessile 

 obovate-oblong acute sharply finely or coarsely toothed scabrid above glabrate 

 or tomentose beneath, heads ^- in. diam. woolly or villous sessile in small 

 sessile or long peduncled clusters usually forming an elongate sparse panicle, 

 receptacle and corolla lobes of glabrous, achenes ribbed glabrous, pappus 

 white. Clarke Comp. Ind. 84. 



CEYLON ; central province, Adam's Peak and Neuera Ellia, Walker, &c. 



The long brown often flexuous stems, and hard uniform toothed sessile leaves, 

 usually rounded at the base, and the glabroxis achenes distinguish this from B. hiera- 

 cifolia, to which it is closely allied. 



24. B. Clarkei, Hook. f. ; stem simple elongate flexuous pubescent or 

 tomentose, leaves shortly petioled 2-3 in. obovate or oblanceolate accuminate 

 toothed pubescent or villous beneath, heads ^- in. diam. sessile and axillary or 

 peduncled in axillary clusters forming very narrow elongate panicles, invol. 

 bracts slender, receptacle broad pubescent, corolla yellow, lobes of $ glandular, 

 achenes obscurely silky, pappus white. B. hieracifolia, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. fy T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-3000 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. CACHAR, Keenan. MEBOUI, 

 Griffith. 



This has quite simple stems, and is intermediate in habit between the larger forms 

 of hieracifolia and malabarica. It agrees in many points with De Candolle's B. 

 elongata (Prodr. v. 445), founded ou Wallich's Conyza elongata, Cat. 3078, of which 

 there is no specimen in Wallich's Herbarium, but the receptacle of that plant is 

 described as glabrous, and it is a native of Penang. 



25. B. flexuosa, Clarke Comp. Ind. 86; tall, robust, stem much branched 

 leafy clothed with soft spreading hairs, leaves 3-5 in. petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate and pungent clothed beneath with long soft silky or spreading hairs 

 or glabrate acutely irregularly toothed, heads f in. in large panicled clusters 

 rarely separately peduncled and cymose, invol. bracts broad pubescent, receptacle 

 nearly pitted, corolla yellow, lobes of $ hairy, pappus white. B. hieracifolia, 

 var. Thwaites Enum. 163. 



NILGHERRY MTS. ; Sisparah, Wight. CEYLON ; Neuera Ellia, Gardner. 



I separate this from the larger forms of B. hieracifolia with great reluctance, 

 especially as Thwaites united the Ceylon specimens with that plant. Both forms 

 have heads sometimes all pedicelled, and forming a loose open cyme, as in the follow- 

 ing section. The receptacle is indistinctly pubescent. 



VAR. zeylanica; leaves from glabrate to densely silkily villous beneath, heads 

 smaller. 



VAR. pcninsularis ; leaves softly loosely hairy beneath. 



