27*2 LXXVIII. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Plucliea. 



ovate, usually broad, dry, rigid ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bates sagittate, 

 cells tailed. Style-arms of filiform, entire or 2-fid. Achenes small, 4-5- 

 angled : pappus hairs slender, 1-seriate, rigid, free or many and connate in the 

 sterile achenes. DISTRIB. About 30 species, tropical and subtropical. 



1. P. indica, Less. ; DC. Prodr. v. 451 ; shrubby, glabrous or nearly so, 

 leaves obovate or oblanceolate subserrate narrowed into the short petiole, heads 

 in compound terminal corymbs, outer invol. bracts broad tips rounded. Wight 

 III. t. 131 (colour off,, ivrong}; Clarke Comp. Ind. 93. P. foliolosa, DC. 

 Prodr. v. 451. Oonyza corymbosa, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 426 ; Wall. Cat. 3009. 

 C. indica, Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. ii. 58. Baccharis indica, Linn. 



Salt marshes, &c., from the SUNDERBUNDS to MALACCA and PENANG. DISTRIB. 

 Malay Islds., China. 



A low shrub. Leaves 1-2 in., obtuse acute or apiculate, often gland-dotted. 

 Corymbs pubescent ; heads in. diam. ; flowers of disk 3 ; of ray $ , numerous. 

 Achenes minute, ribbed, nearly glabrous; pappus scanty, white, spreading. 



2. P. ovalis, DC. Prodr. v. 450; shrubby, pubescent, branches winged, 

 leaves sessile oblong or obovate-oblong coarsely toothed, heads in compound 

 terminal corymbs, outer invol. bracts acute. Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 328. 

 Baccharis ovalis, Pers. Synops. ii. 424. 



PUNJAB ; in the Salt Kange, Aitchison. DISTRIB. N.- Africa. 



A large shrub. Branches with broad green toothed and sinuate wings like Laqgera 

 pterodonta. Leaves 2-2^ by f 1 in., tips rounded. Corymbs scaberulous ; heads in. 

 diam. Achenes (young) glabrous. The wing may be an inconstant character. The 

 specimens are poor, and it may prove a form of P. tomentosa. 



3. P. tomentosa, DC. in Wight Contrib. 16; Prodr. v.457; shrubby or 

 tomentose, pubescent, branches not winged, leaves sessile broadly obovate base 

 auricled coarsely toothed, heads in compound terminal corymbs, outer invol. 

 bracts acute. Clarke Comp. Ind. 94. Oonyza tomentosa, Wall. Cat. 3031. 



UPPER BENGAL, on the Granges from Futtihpore to Cawnpore. CENTRAL INDIA, 

 SCIND and the DECCAN to TRAVANCORE. 



A more or less glandular shrub, 5 ft. high (Dalzell). Leaves 1^2 in., often as 

 broad, acute or obtuse. Corymbs and heads as in P. ovalis. Pappus reddish. 



4. P. Wallichiana, DC. Prodr. v. 451; shrubby, glandular-pubescent 

 and scabrid, branches not winged, leaves sessile obovate-oblong faintly toothed, 

 heads in compound corymbs, outer invol. bracts tomentose subacute. Dalz. fy 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 126 ; Clarke Comp. Ind. 94. Conyza sessilifolia, Wall. Cat. 

 3029. 0. Candolleana, Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 217. 



The PUNJAB, Falconer, Stewart. SCIND, Stocks. G-UZERAT (" only one specimen 

 seen in the whole country, perhaps not indigenous," Dalzell). DISTRIB. Beluchistan. 



A tall shrub. Leaves 1-2 in., variable in breadth, rigid, nerves raised on both 

 surfaces. Heads very similar to those of tomentosa. Wallich gives Srinuggur in 

 Kamrup, as the habitat, but I suspect the specimen is one of Hamilton's and probably 

 western. 



5. P. lanceolata, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. 329 ; shrubby, hoary-pubes- 

 cent, leaves sessile very coriaceous oblong or oblanceolate pungent quite entire 

 strongly nerved, heads in compound corymbs, invol. bracts short rounded 

 obtuse. Berthelotia lanceolata, DC. Prodr. v. 376 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 21 ; 

 Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 218. Conyza lanceolata, Wall. Cat. 2991. 



UPPER BENGAL, at Cawnpore, OUDH, and westward to the PUNJAB and SCIND. 

 DISTRIB.- Aifghanistan, Beluchistan, N. Africa. 



Branches rather slender. Leaves 1-2 in., pale when dry, with strong very oblique 



