Shimea.'] LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 269 



** Pappus red. Receptacle more or less vittous or pubescent (except in B. 

 spectabilis, var. longifolia). 



30. B. Hookeri, Clarke mss. ; erect, puberulous, leaves 8-18 in. mem- 

 branous oblong-lanceolate pinnatifid acuminate narrowed into a winged petiole 

 lobes upcurved acuminate denticulate or lacerate, heads very many in. diam. 

 peduncled in a very large branched pubescent panicle, invol. bracts narrow rigid 

 puberulous, corolla lobes hispid, recept. narrow pubescent, achenes unripe. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 1-4000 ft., J. D. H. KHASIA MTS., Simons. 

 Stem stout, green, herbaceous. Leaves sometimes 7 in. broad, very membranous 

 and glabrous, quite unlike those of any other species. 



31. B. myriocephala, DC. Prodr. v. 445; shrubby, branches very 

 stout glabrous or puberulous, leaves 6-10 in. glabrous oblanceolate acuminate 

 narrowed into an often appendaged petiole serrulate many-nerved coriaceous, 

 heads %- in subsessile or clustered on the ascending branches of a narrowly 

 pyramidal elongate tomentose erect panicle, invol. bracts tomentose squarrosely 

 recurved in age, recept. villous or glabrate, ty corolla-lobes glabrous or glan- 

 dular, achenes 10-ribbed hairy. B. sessilifolia, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 189. Conyza squarrosa, Wall. Cat. 3025. 0. lanceolaria, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 432. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA, alt. 2000 ft., J. D. H. SILHET, de Silva. ASSAM and'-BiBMA, 

 Griffith. CHITTAGONG, Clarke. 



Stem as thick as the forefinger. The very numerous nerves and recurved (when 

 dry) margins of the leaves and their small regular teeth, are unlike any other species 

 of this shrubby section, except the following. The name Conyza lanceolaria,, Roxb. 

 is attached to a Calcutta Bot. Garden very narrow-leaved form of this plant in 

 Griffith's Herbarium. 



32. B. spectabilis, DC. Prodr. v. 445; shrubby, branches very stout 

 glabrous below pubescent above, leaves 4- J in. glabrous oblanceolate or elliptic 

 acuminate subserrate narrowed into a long winged often appendaged petiole, 

 heads in. peduncled free or clustered along the branches of a broad bracteate 

 pyramidal panicle, invol. bracts slender pubescent, $ corolla-lobes glandular, 

 achenes (unripe) silky, pappus red. B. rnyrioeephala, Thwaites Enum. 163, 

 excl. syn. Oonyza longifolia, Herb. Heyne in Watt. Cat. 3026. 



MYSORE, Heyne. TRAVANCORE, Wight, &c. CEYLON, central province, alt. 4000 ft. 



VAR. longifolia ; heads smaller \ in. diam. sessile on the branches of a narrow 

 panicle. B. longifolia, DC. Prodr. v. 446 ; Dalz. $ Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 125. Tullawaree 

 and Purdana, in Canara, Stocks, Ritchie. Perhaps a different species, the heads not 

 half the size of the type, densely crowded on the branches of a much more contracted 

 panicle, and the receptacle is quite glabrous, but the leaves are identical and very 

 characteristic. 



33. B. densiflora, DC. Prodr. v. 446 ; stem stout, panicle and leaves 

 beneath densely tomento'se or clothed with thick white felted wool, leaves 8-18 

 in. broadly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate narrowed into a long winged sometimes 

 appendaged petiole puberulous above serrate-toothed or pinnatifid, heads \ in. 

 diam. sessile in rounded clusters on a large branched panicle, invol. bracts 

 narrow rather rigid, recept. narrow glabrous, corolla-lobes of Q hairy, achenes 

 10-ribbed pubescent, pappus red. Clarke Comp. Ind. 88. B. excisa and grandis, 

 DC. I.e. 446,447. B. Milnei, Seem. FL Vitil&l, t. 27. Oonyza densiflora, 

 excisa and grandis, Wall. Cat. 2997, 3011, 3051. 0. falcigera, Wall. Cat. 2048; 

 ex DC. I. c. 0. dasycoma, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 56. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Sikkim. ASSAM ; Mishmi and Naga hills, Griffith. KHASIA 

 MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft. Tavoy, Wallich. DISTRIB. Malay and Fiji Islands. 



