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



SECT. VI. Heads very numerous, large or small, forming narrow or broad 

 terminal branched corymbs or panicles. Shrubs or small trees (except B. 

 chinensis and obovata, sometimes climbing) ; leaves very large, 8-18 in. long ; 

 pappus white or red. 



* Pappus white. 



26. B. chinensis, DC. Prodr. v. 444 ; scandent, quite glabrous, leaves 

 shortly petioled elliptic-lanceolate acuminate glandularly subserrate coriaceous, 

 heads in. clustered on the short distant branches of a long terminal pubescent 

 panicle, invol. bracts puberulous outer short obtuse, recept. densely hirsute, ^ 

 corolla-lobes hairy, achenes strongly 10-ribbed hairy. B. riparia, DC, I.e. ; 



Clarke Comp. Ind. 85. Oonyza chinensis, Linn. ; Blume Bijd. 898. C. riparia, 

 Blume, I.e. 899. C. longispina, Zoll. fy Morr. Syst. Verg. 121. C. serici-vestita, 



Wall. Cat. 2996 B. Baccharis nitida, Wall Cat. 3043. 



EASTERN HIMALAYA ; Sikkim and Bhotan, alt. 2-4000 ft. ASSAM, and KHASIA MTS., 

 J. D. H. $ T. T. PENANG, Wallich, &c. DISTRIB. Java, S. China. 



Branches terete, grooved, flexuous. Leaves green ; petiole slender, ^-5- in. Invo- 

 lucre quite unlike any other species ; the outer - bracts very short, coriaceous and 

 obtuse; inner long and thin. Pappus white. 



27. B. obovata, DC. Prodr. v. 446; herbaceous, stem and panicle 

 softly 'densely villous, leaves narrowed into a shofct petiole obovate-lanceolate 

 acute or acuminate faintly or coarsely toothed membranous glabrous above 

 tomentose beneath, heads very few f in. diam. on simple or branched peduncles 

 at the end of a very long- almost naked branch, invol. bracts villous very many 

 .slender and shining, recept. with a veiy few hairs, g corolla lobes glandular, 

 achenes unripe. Conyza obovata, Wall. Cat. 3022. 



NIPAL, Wallich. 



Known only from Wallich's specimens. Its herbaceous character would bring it 

 under the first division of the genus, but the large head habit and foliage are that of 

 this ; pappus quite white. 



28. B. sikkimensis, Hook.f. ; branches stout glabrous, leaves 8-12 in. 

 elliptic-lanceolate narrowed into a petiole acuminate obtusely subserrate glabrous 

 membranous, heads f in. on slender peduncles loosely clustered at the ends of 

 the slender branches of a large pubescent panicle, invol. bracts puberulous very 

 narrow re volute in age, recept. broad glabrous, Q corolla lobes pubescent, achenes 

 ribbed silky, pappus dirty white. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; alt. 5000 ft., J. D. H. 



Probably climbing, branches grooved as in B. chinensis. 



29. B. procera, DC. Prodr. v. 445; villous above or tomentose, branches 

 long stout, leaves 5-8 in. sessile obovate-oblong or -lanceolate acuminate 

 coarsely irregularly toothed glabrous or hirsute beneath base cordate, heads ^ in. 

 in dense (rarely loose) compound clusters on the woplly branches of an elongate 

 panicle, invol. bracts silky outer short acute coriaceous, recept. narrow glabrous, 

 lobes of corolla very hairy, achenes ribbed shortly silky, pappus very white. 

 Clarke Comp. Ind. 86. B. semivestita, DC. 1. c. Conyza procera and serni- 

 vestita, Wall Cat. 3050, 2996 A. C. repanda, Roxl. Fl Ind. iii. 431. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; from Nipal eastwards, ascending in Sikkim and the KHASIA 

 MTS. to 5000 ft. ASSAM, PEGU, TENASSEHIM, MARTABAN, BIRMA. 



The cordate narrowed base of the large leaves is a good character of this species, 

 which grows to 6 ft. high. I have not quoted Kurz, who (As. Soc. Journ. 1877, H. 

 189) considers procera to be a var. of macrophylla. Clarke believes that Kurz's 

 macrophylla has red pappus, and that his procera is Blume's confusa. 



