594 BENGAL PLANTS. [Erigeron. 
. Stamens syngenesious; anthers with entire, almost obtuse 
bases. Style of hermaphrodite florets with more or less flattened 
arms, with triangular or oblong, apical, acute or obtuse append- 
se Cypsela compressed, usually narrow, margins often nervi- 
; pappus a single or double row of bristles, the outer, when 
piace of fewer and pene sete. 
1036. — asTeRorpes Roxb. ; F. I. ii. 482; F. Bf 
i. 254; E, D. B. 276, 
es most of the provinces. 
A coarse annual, 1-2 feet high. 
449, Conyza Less. 
Herbs; leaves asa toothed, or less often pinnately divided. 
Flower-heads heterogamous, disciform, corymbose or panicled, 
rarely solitary ; even flowers female, pale, 2-many- -seriate, inner 
hermaphrodite, yellow, all or mostly fertile; involucre campanu- 
late; bracts 2-many-seriate, narrow, the outermost smallest ; 
receptacle flat or convex, naked or pitted and fimbriate. Ca lya- 
limb bristly. Petals of female florets connate in filiform corollas, 
shorter than the styles, with 2-3-toothed limb, or occasionally the 
very outmost cleft on one side above and shortly pe 
maphrodite florets with flattened arms, apical appendag ea lan 
‘late, short or long. Cypsela minute, compressed ; igs en ie 
1-seriate, rarely 2-seriate, with the outer set shorter ie 
Pappus white; stems little branched; bracts of the caer slender, 
linear ; leaves obovate-spathulate o sephlneweniete the seis uae 
or acutely lobed or cut; achenes ee -eggodedgovees Git emipinnatifida. 
Pappus reddish; stems much branched ; acne of the cack rathet 
firm, lanceolate :— ‘ 
Leaves lanceolate, narrowed to both ends, the margins cape 
serrate; bracts of the involucre with scarious margins 5 -seiduld. 
glabrous 32 4 
Leaves from narrow-linear to spathulate-obovate, entire, ae 
rarely pinnatifid ; bracts of the involucre herbaceous; achenes 
Sane stricta 
ane 
 wapenns reer et 
o 
scvebpees terest? 
1037. Conyza sEMIPINNATIFIDA Wall.; F, B. 1, iii, 257. 
ngal; Sundribuns. 
A pee -stemmed annual herb, 
