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2. ADENOCARPA, Dalz. Stem rather woody below, much-branch- 

 ed from the base, pubescent and scabrous all over ; leaves linear or 

 spathulate, stem-clasping, auricled at the base, and entire or distantly 

 toothed, mucronulate; corymb terminal dichotomous, 8-flowered; 

 flowers small, yellow; hermaph florets 10 to 12; achenia glabrous, 

 covered with yellow resinous-looking glands. Hab. Hursur fort, near 

 Jooneer, Hurrychunder, &c. ; involucre scales lanceolate-acute, 

 scabrous with membranous margins, rough and hairy. 



8. BLUMEA, DC. 



1 . AMPLECTENS, DC. in Wight. Contr. p 1 3. Stem herbaceous, 

 as round, hairy, branched ; young leaves villous, older ones almost 

 glabrous, cauline leaves ovate, somewhat stem-clasping, acutely 

 toothed, lower ones cut at the base ; peduncles few, subterminal, a 

 little longer than the leaf, with spreading hairs ; heads of flowers 

 solitary. Common on the roadsides. Syn. Conyza amplexicaulis, 

 Lam. Diet, ii, p 85. 



2. BIFOLIATA, DC. loc. cit. under Conyza. Stem herbaceous, 

 ascending, round-branched, slightly hairy ; leaves acutely toothed, 

 lower ones ovate, attenuated at the base, upper ones sessile, oblong ; 

 pedicels elongated, slender, terminated by a solitary head of flowers. 

 Common about Surat. 



3. MURALIS, DC. Prod. 5, p 440. Glabrous below, glandular 

 and hairy at the apex ; stem herbaceous, erect, simple round ; leaves 

 lyrate, pinnately lobed, narrowed into the petiole, lobes coarsely 

 toothed, panicle elongated, lax; flowers yellow, shorter than the 

 involucre. Common on old walls, a tall species, the leaves very 

 tender. Bassein Fort. 



4. GLOMERATA, DC. in Wight Contr. p 15. All over hir- 

 sutely villous, of an ashy hue ; stem erect, round-branched, branches 

 disposed in a leafy panicle, having sessile clustered heads of flowers 

 in interrupted spikes. The Concans. 



5. HOLOSERICEA, DC. Prod. 5, p 442. All clothed with long 

 silky hairs ; stem round, erect, scarcely branched ; leaves oblong, 

 attenuated at the base, acute, deeply and acutely serrated, covered 

 with silky, close-pressed hairs; panicle elongated, interrupted, lower 

 branches longer than the leaves, racemose at apex. The Concans. 



6. LONGIFOLIA, DC. Prod. 5, p 446. Stem tall, herbaceous, 

 erect, simple below ; leaves 9 inches to a foot long, oblong serrated, 

 acute at both ends; panicle elongated, many-headed; involucre scales 

 linear, glabrous. At Tullawaree, on the Ghauts ; 6 to 8 feet high. 



7. ALATA, DC. Prod. 5, p 446. Stem herbaceous, erect- 

 branched along with the leaves, covered sparingly with a rufous 

 pubescence; leaves linear or elliptic-oblong, toothed, running down 



