276 LXXVIII. COMPOSITES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Blepharispermum* 



BIKMA and the EASTEBN PENINSULA, from PEGU southwards. DISTEIB. Philippine 

 Islds. New Caledonia. Australia. 



Kobust, 1-2 ft. high; branches erect. Leaves 1-1% in., white beneath. Heads 

 in., sessile, horizontal; invol. bracts shining; disk-fl. solitary. Achenes sparingly 

 hairy. 



33. BLEPKARISPERIVIUiyi, Wight. 



Glabrous shrubs. Leaves alternate. Heads small, compressed, in solitary 

 or crowded globose clusters which are sessile on an oblong or cylindric terminal 

 receptacle, heterogamous, discoid ; outer fl. $ , few, fertile, very slender, 3-4- 

 toothed ; disk-fl. 2-8, $ , fertile or not, tubular, 5-fid. Invol bracts 1-2, like 

 the pales, but shorter : receptacle minute or cylindric, with broad rigid pales 

 enclosing the flowers. Anther-bases sagittate, auricles subcaudate. Style-arms 

 of $ linear, stout, obtuse. Achenes obcompressed, black, outer on both faces 

 with a ciliate rib, margins ciliate ; pappus pales or bristles very unequal, or 

 with 2-3 stronger ones at the angles, or in the sterile achenes. DISTKIB. 

 2 Tropical Indian and an African species. 



1. B. petiolare, DC. in Wight Cmtrib. 12 ; Prodr. v. 268 ; leaves 



C)led ovate membranous acuminate, clusters of heads long-peduncled corym- 

 . Clarke Comp. Ind. 98 ; Arnott in Mag. Zool. $ Sot. ii. 421 ; Wight Ic. 

 t. 1092 ; Deless. Ic. Sel. iv. t. 19, f. 1. 



TRAVANCORE ; at Courtallam, Wight. 



A glabrous shrub, branches slender. Leaves 3-7 in., acuminate ; petiole ^-f in. 

 Clusters of heads %-\ in. diam. ; basal bracts broad ; heads 4-fld. ; ? fl. 2, pappus of 

 a few bristles ; achenes compressed, margins ciliate ; fl. 2 ; pappus ; achenes 

 small, empty. 



2. B. subsessile, DC. in Wight Contrib. 12 ; Prodr. v. 368 ; leaves 

 subsessile ovate or elliptic obtuse coriaceous finely reticulate, heads solitary 

 shortly peduncled. Clarke Comp. Ind. 98 ; Wight Ic. t. 1093 ; Deless. Ic. SeL 

 iv. t. 19, f. 2. Leucoblepharis subsessilis, Am. in Mag. Zool. # Sot. ii. 422 ; 

 Dalz. % Gibs. Somb. Fl. 123; Wall. Cat. 7524 (DC.). 



The CONCAN, CANARA and MYSORE ; on the Ghats. 



A glabrous undershrub, with a woody rootstock. Leaves 1^-5 by f-2^ in., shining 

 on both surfaces, narrowed into the petiole. Clusters of heads globose, 1-1^ in. 

 diam., with leafy bracts at the base, 5-10-fld. ; fl. ? 2, pappus of a few hairs, 

 achenes compressed almost villous with long hairs ; fl. $ 3-8, pappus like the $ and 

 achenes smaller. 



34. ATHROISIVXA, DC. 



A viscid glabrous or pubescent annual. Leaves alternate, petioled, pinnatifid. 

 Heads small, in globose or ovoid terminal peduncled clusters which are sessile 

 on a common cylindrical receptacle, heterogamous, disciform ; outer fl. $ , very 

 few, filiform, 2-3-toothed, fertile ; disk-fl. , fertile, tubular, limb campanulate 

 shortly 4-fid. Invol. bracts 1-2, like the pales, but shorter ; receptacle cylindric, 

 with broad dry pales enclosing the flowers. Anther-bases sagittate ; auricles 

 connate, acute. Style-arms of short, flattened, very obtuse. Achenes black, 

 inner face flat, outer convex, margin ciliate ; pappus a short stellately spreading 

 fimbriate corona. 



A. laciniatum, DC. Prodr. v. 369; Clarke Comp. Ind. 98. Sphaer- 

 anthus laciniatus, Wall. Cat. 3184 (DC.). 



BENGAL, from the Hoogly at Kajmahal, eastwards to ASSAM, and southwards to 

 BIKMA and TENASSERIM. DISTRIB. Java. 



