146 MESSRS BAKER, MOORE, RENDLE, RIDLEY, AND WERNHAM 



Receptaculum £uberulam. Flosculi breviter exserti d 9 pro capitulo 

 circa 16. Styli £11. d 2 rami aliquanto complanati obtusiusculi. 

 Ache aia nondum matura cylindrica puberula. Pappi setae leves 

 dilute strajnineae. 



Annam. 



Leaves with a blade 6-8 cm. long, at most 3-4 cm. broad, 

 running out below in a pubescent petiole 2-3 cm. lcng ; lobes 

 1.5-2 cm. long, but often shorter ; younger leaves usually 1.5-2 cm. x 

 5-8 mm. Panicles 7-8x6-7 cm. Peduncles (of individual heads) 

 more or less 5 mm. long, occasionally reaching 1.5 or even almost 2 cm. 

 Bracts linear, more or less 2 mm. in length. Heads in flower 6x6 mm. 

 Involucre with outer leaves more or less 2 mm. long, and inner 5 mm. 

 Corolla of 9 florets 4 mm. long, their exserted style-arms nearly 

 2 mm. long. Corolla of d 9 florets 5 mm. long, its teeth triangular and 

 pilose-ciliate. Androecium half -exserted. Style-arms 1.75 mm. long. 

 Achenes barely 1 mm., setae of pappus 4-4.5 mm. long. 



The chief distinctive mark of this species from among its 

 allies is found in the pinnatifid leaves. 



151. Laggera alata Sch. Bip. 

 • Dran, 3,000-4,000 ft. 



Distrib. India, China, Malaya, Tropical Africa. 

 152. Pluchea indica Less. 



Dran, 3,000-4,000 ft. 



Distrib. India, Malaya, China. 



153. Wedelia albicaulis S. Moore, sp. no v. 



Caules sat tenues caespitosi e rhizomate valido oriundi 

 pauciramosi subdistanter foliosi scabridi. Folia brevipetiolata lanceo- 

 lata vel lineari-lanceolata acuminata apice mucronulata basi rotundata 

 trinervia margine denticulata pagina utravis scabrida. Capitula 

 terminalia (raro itaque axillaria) pedunculis scabridis quam folia 

 brevioribus insidentia. Involucri anguste campanulati scabridi phylla 

 subbiseriata ovato-oblonga vel ovafca obtusiuscula omnia rigida 

 diluteque straminea. Reeeptaculi paleas lineari-lanceolata triloba? 

 ciliatse lobo intermedio elongato acuminato. Lignlai 5 exserta? apice 

 2-3-dentatoe. Disci flosculi 14 omnes etsi d 9 verisimiliter steriles. 



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