32 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



8. Blumea, DC. 

 Herbs, annual or perennial, glandular-pubescent or woolly. Leaves 

 alternate, rarely entire, usually lobed or toothed. Heads in pani- 

 culate cymes, rarely in racemes, heterogamous, disciform, yellow or 

 purplish. Bay-florets in several series, 2 , fertile, filiform, 2- or 3- 

 toothed. Dish-florets <^ , few, fertile, with slender tube and 5-toothed 

 limb. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; its bracts in several rows, 

 narrow, acute, herbaceous, the outer smaller ; receptacle flat, naked. 

 Anthers with sagittate bases produced into small slender tails. Style- 

 arms of the hermaphrodite flower flattened or filiform, rarely connate 

 with the nearest anthers. Gypselas small, sub-terete or angular, with or 

 without ridges ; pappus hairs in a single row, slender, often caducous. 

 — DisTRiB. About 60 species, in tropical and sub-tropical Asia, Africa, 

 and Australia. 



Scandent ; pappus white .. .. _ .. ..1. B. chinensis. 



Large shrub ; pappus red . . . . . . . . 2. B. halsamifera. 



Erect herbs ; pappus white : — 



Heads in small sessile clusters of 2 or 3 in the axils of small 



bracts on an elongated pseudo-spike . . . . . . 3. B. glomerata. 



Heads few (1 to 6), in short, axillary, condensed, pedunculate 



cymes ; leaves oblanceolate or obovate, dentate but not lobed ; 



flowers purple . . . . . . . . . . 4. J5. Wightiana. 



Heads sessile or sub-sessile, in lax, shortly-branched, leafy 



cymose panicles ; leaves oblanceolate, dentate but not lobed ; 



flowers yellow , . . . . . . . . . 5. B. lacera. 



Heads sessile or sub-sessile, in axillary spikes several inches 



long, arranged in a pseudo-panicle ; leaves oblanceolate, den- 

 tate and sometimes lobulate ; flowers yellow . . . . 6. B. memhranacea. 



1. Blumea chinensis, DC. Prod. V. 444. Scandent ; young 

 branches half as thick as a goose-quill, glabrous, much striate and 

 dark brown when dry. Leaves membranous, elliptic or oblong-elliptic^ 

 acuminate or acute, narrowed to the rounded base, the edges with 

 remote, narrow, small sharp teeth, or sub-entire ; both surfaces glabrous, 

 the upper dark-brown and shining, the lower paler and tinged oliva- 

 ceous ; main-nerves 4 or 5 pairs, curved, ascending, thin but distinct 

 on the lower surface, faint on the upper ; length 2-25 to 3-25 in. ; 

 breadth -85 to 1-4 in. ; petiole -2 to '3 in. Heads -35 in. across, sessile, 

 in small pedunculate axillary cymes, 3 in. long, diminishing upwards to 

 •75 in. in length ; the peduncles and their branches everywhere pubes- 

 cent, sometimes a small cyme with 2 to 4 heads in the same axil as a 

 longer one. Involucral bracts of the outer two series short, ovate-lan- 

 ceolate, blunt, densely pubescent, those of the inner two twice as long 



