Laggera.'} LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 



Throughout NORTHERN INDIA ; from the HIMALAYA in Kumaon eastwards, ascend- 

 ing to 6000 ft. in SIXKIM and BHOTAN ; southwards to BEHAR and the GOLCONDAH 

 HILLS, Beddome in the west, and to CHITTAGONG, PEGU, TAVOY and PENANG in the 

 -east. 



Stem 6 in. to 3 ft., simple or corymbosely branched above, grooved. Leaves 1-3 

 in., sometimes scaberulous, membranous. Heads on capillary peduncles ; recept. 

 glabrous ; corolla yellow, lobes of g glabrous ; anthers sagittate. Achenes most 

 minute, glabrous. Pappus white. , 



2. Xi. alata, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. n. 1340 ; robust, much 

 "branched, pubescent or tomentose, stem with entire wings, leaves oblong toothed 

 sessile decurrent, heads in. diam. racemed on short axillary winged branches 

 drooping in fruit, fl. purplish. Clarke Comp. 2nd. 91. L. divaricata, Oliv. Fl. 

 Trap. Afr. iii. 525. Blumea alata, DC. Prodr. v. 448; Dalz. $ Gibs.^Bomb. 

 FL 125; Wight Ic. t. 1101. B. vernonioidea, DC. I c. 447. Conyza alata, 

 Roxb. Hort. Bang. 61 ; FL Ind. iii. 430. C. nutans, Blume Bijd. 896. 0. 

 cernua, Watt. Cat. 3012. Erigeron alatum, Don Prodr. 171. Veriionia Wight- 

 iana, Wall. Cat. 2923 (not of Arnott). 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Simla eastwards to SIKKIM, and south- 

 wards in hilly districts ascending to 6000 ft. in the NILGHERRY MTS., and to 7000 ft. 

 in CEYLON. Not found south of the Khasia Mts. and Birma in the east. DISTRIB. 

 Java, China, Philippine Islds., Trop. Africa. 



A stout, leafy herb. Leaves 14 in., sometimes almost entire. Inwl. bracts many, 

 outer short herbaceous often recurved, inner long straight. Achenes hairy ; pappus 

 white. 



3. Xi. pterodonta, Benth. in Gen. PL ii. 290 ; much branched, glabrous 

 or puberulous, stem with deeply toothed lobed or interrupted wings, leaves 

 sessile oblanceolate toothed or pinnatifid at the base, heads in. diam. on 

 (usually) slender peduncles at the ends of the branches, fl. purple. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind. 92. Blumea pterodoiita, DC. in Wight Contrib. 16 ; Prodr. v. 448 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1100. Conyza cernua, Wall. Cat. 3012 B. Serratula polygona, 

 A. Rich. FL Abyss, i. 437, t. 62. 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA; from Simla, alt. 4000 ft. eastwards. ASSAM, BIRMA, 

 NILGHERRY and PULNEY MTS. DISTRIB. Trop. Africa. 



A more slender and glabrous plant than L. alata, well distinguished by the re- 

 markable wings of the stem, which are sometimes represented by a series of mem- 

 branous vertical laminae - ^ in. broad. Invol. bracts glabrous, rigid. 



4. Zi. aurita, Schultz-Bip. in Herb. Hohenack. ; rather slender, viscidly 

 hirsute pubescent or villous, stem not winged, leaves small sessile or petioled 

 oblanceolate toothed lobed cut or ^-pinnatifid, heads ^-^ in. diam. in small 

 lateral or terminal corymbs, flowers pink. Clarke Comp. Ind. 92. Blumea 

 aurita, DC. Prodr. v. 449. B. guineensis, DC. I. c. Conyza aurita, Linn.f. ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 428 ; Wall. Cat. 3069 ? and 3086 ; Boiss. FL Orient, iii. 216. 



Plains of India from the PUNJAB and SCIND, eastwards and southwards to CHITTA- 

 GONG, BIRMA and TRAVANCORE. DISTRIB. Tropical Africa. 



A well-marked species. The leaves are decurrent, but very shortly only. Invol. 

 bracts slender, soft, villous. The whole plant has an odour of turpentine. 



28. PLUCHEA, Cass. 



Shrubs rarely herbs, tomentose or glutinous. Leaves alternate. Heads 

 small, in terminal leafless corymbs or large and subsolitary, heterogamous, dis- 

 ciforna, white, yellow or lilac ; outer fl. $ , GO -seriate, fertile, filiform ; disk-fl. 

 ^ ; few, sterile, tubular, limb 5-fid. Involucre ovoid or canipanulate ; bracts 



