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Herbs, erect with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 



Petals Ununited. 



Flowers, Minute, in Heads. 



Flowers all Tubular. 



Conyza viscidula, 



CoMPOSITiE. 



F. B. I. iii. 258. 

 Himalaya 1-7,000 ft. 

 Mashobra (CoUett). 



Blumea amplectens, 



Composite. 



F. B. I. iii. 260. 



The Plains. 



Rawalpindi (Douie). 



Rohtak. 



Grurgaon. 



Blumea Wightiana, 



Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 261. 

 The Plains to 4,000 ft. 

 Valleys below Simla 

 (OoUett). 



Blumea iacera, 



Kakronda, jungli muli. 

 Composite. 

 F. B. I. iii. 263. 

 The Plains to 2,000 

 ft. 



Blumea hieraclfolia, 



Composure. 

 F. B. I. iii. 263. 

 The Plains to 2,000 

 ft. 



oblong, or ovate oblong, often entire ; flowers all 

 tubular, yellow in globose; heads ^ in diam. arrang- 

 ed in terminal flat-topped clusters, bracts of heads 

 narrowly lanceolate, short-pointed with transparent 

 edges; pappus | in.; reddish; corollas 5-toothed; 

 anther-bases blunt, entire, style-arms flattened ; 

 achenes /^ in., nearly smooth, margined. 



medium size to large, sticky with glands, much 

 branched above ; leaves 2-4 in., lanceolate, narrowed 

 at both ends, nearly sessile, sticky on both sides, 

 sharply toothed, sometimes entire ; heads in loose 

 clusters, bracts of heads long-pointed, pappus ^- 

 \ in., for other characters see the last species. 



small, annual, bushy, softly hairy; leaves |^-1^ in. 

 long, oblong or ovate with a broad tip, blunt or 

 short-pointed, half-stem clasping ; flowers minute, 

 yellow in solitary long-stalked; heads J-^ in. diam., 

 bracts of heads very slender, inner hair-pointed, 

 base of head (receptacle) flat, naked; calyx hair, 

 (pappus) scanty, reddish; corollas tubular filiforms 

 2-3 toothed inner slender, 5-toothed: anther bases, 

 forked, tails small, slender; style arms short: ache- 

 nes oblong. A common weed. 



small to medium size, silky or woolly, often 

 sticky with glandular hairs; leaves 1^-2 by f-1 in.; 

 lower ovate, stalked or nearly sessile, upper smaller, 

 linear or lanceolate, sessile ; flowers minute, purple 

 or a few yellow, in numerous heads, \ in. diam., 

 forming stalked terminal or axillary clusters; bracts 

 of heads few, short, inner many, narrow long-point- 

 ed, slightly longer than the flowers; achenes minute, 

 angled, slightly hairy ; for other characters see the 

 last species. 



very like the last species, but smell of turpentine, 

 flowers yellow, achenes smooth, not hairy. The 

 root is used as a febrifuge and an astringent in 

 Indian medicine. 



like the last species, but often unbranched or 

 with a stout stem; heads |^-| in. diam. in tuft-like 

 or spike-like long branching racemes. 



