596 BENGAL PLANTS. { Blumea. 
=“ of hermaphrodite florets with flattened or almost filiform 
obtuse or acute, papillose on the back. Cypsela small, 
SS iterete or sneee ribbed or not; pappus 1-seriate, slender, 
often caducous 
*Herbs :—[p. 597] 
Heads solitary and peduncled on the ends of the branches, or few 
e abro 
Lobes of the hermaphrodite corollas hairy ; gee all solitary :— 
Pappus reddish; leaves dentate, all alternate ............ amplectens. 
Pappus white ; rate serrate, the two apie leaves on the 
branchlets oppos ....bifo 
Lobes of the ee ne corollas glabrous; flowers solitary 
brou 
peduneled, or few corymbose; pappus white; leaves all alternate, 
oothed oxyodont 
Heads numerous ; pappus white 
tHeads more or less sieiaedia to es dense, oblong spikes or con- 
tracted panicles at the top of the stem :—{p. 597] 
Corolla purplish; stem erect, subsimple, very leafy; leaves 
obovate, irregularly toothed or serrate; receptacle glabrous ; 
achenes sparsely rg 4-5-angled, not ribbed ; pubescence silky, 
sometimes glandular, never silvery Wightian 
Corolla yellow :— 
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Leaves Flongate, oblanceolate, « or linear-acuminate, minutely 
toot 
lobes of hermaphrodite corolla hairy ; achenes sil pease 
Leaves broadly obovate, sriged or pea Stains toothed ; 
pubescence never silve ile 
Heads with purplish ele to the involucre, in small, sesst! 
upper oblong in ieiaed : ; receptacle pubescent ; lo 
rr dar corolla hairy; achenes distinctly gsr 
glabrous or hai iry ac geet a om 
Heads with greyish bracts to the involucre, caected vee! ple 
terminal panicles, rarely corymbose at the apex of the leak 
or sometimes (in B. lacera) sparingly branched gigs! a 
leaves not lyrate-pinnatifid ; receptacle glabrous ; - angled 
erage Peon glabrous or nearly so; achenes ® 
but not distin : pescent 
tems an branched, always very leafy; PU 
often glandular, rarely glabrescent; lower leaves 
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