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_ 1088. Conyza viscrputa Wall.; F. B. I. iii. 258. 
ehar; N. Bengal; Chittagong. 
A much-branched, viscidly hairy herb. 
1039. Conyza stricta Willd.; F. B. I. iii. 259.  C. pinnatifida 
F. I. iii. 480. 
ehar ; Chota Nagpur. 
A fastigiately branched, pubescent herb. 
450. Thespis DC. 
A branching, glabrous, annual herb; leaves alternate, toothed. 
Flower-heads minute, heterogamous, disciform, yellow, sessile, in 
globose clusters on the branches of dichotomous cymes; outer 
florets many-seriate, female, fertile, often apetalous ; inner florets 
hermaphrodite, few, sterile; involucre hemispheric ; bracts sub- 
E 2seriate, wide, obtuse, herbaceous with scarious margins; recep- 
_tacle flat or slightly convex, naked. Calyz-limb subpaleaceous. 
Petals of female florets 0, or connate in very short, tubular 
as; of hermaphrodite florets 4, connate in regular, shortly 
tubular corollas, with narrowly campanulate, shortly 4-fid limb. 
Stamens syngenesious ; anthers obtuse, entire or slightly emargi- 
nate. Style of hermaphrodite florets with short, flattened, sub- 
_ ‘ute arms, papillose on the back. Cypsela of female florets 
_ ‘Small, hardly costate, of hermaphrodite abortive ; pappus-hairs 
about 10, 1-seriate, short, dilated. 
1040. Tuesprs prvartcata DC.; F. B. I. iti. 259. 
E. Bengal; Tippera. 
A robust weed with spreading branches. 
451. Blumea DC. 
1 ual or perennial, glandular-pubescent or woolly herbs; 
ore alternate, usually toothed or lobed. Flower-heads hetero- 
reese, disciform, purple, rosy or yellow, corymbose, panicled or 
‘fascicled, rarely racemed; outer florets female, many-seriate ; 
Mer florets hermaphrodite, few, all fertile ; involucre ovoid or 
e bristly. Petals of female florets connate in 
erter than their styles, with minutely 9-8-toothed apex; of 
 ‘emaphrodite florets 5, connate in regular, slender, tubular 
: “orollas, with slightly enlarged 5-toothed limb. Stamens synge- 
‘esious ; anthers sagittate at the base, with small, slender tails. 
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