Inula] LXII. COMPOSITE 401 



corymbs densely silky or woolly, 1. sessile or nearly so, oblong-lanceolate, toothed. 

 heads numerous in terminal corymbs J in. diam., invol. bracts all linear, rigid, ha ire 

 ligulate fl. very small, few or wanting, achenes silky, pappus dirty white, hairs 

 thickened at the end. 2. I. eupatorioides, DC. Subhimalayan tract, Sikkim, Bhutan, 

 often in Sal forest Khasi hills. Branches and underside of 1. pubescent, 1. rigid, 

 lanceolate, blade 4-7, pet. stout J in., ligules narrow. 3. L cuspidata, C. B. Clarke ; 

 Collett, Simla Flora, 258, fig. 78. XorthAYest Himalaya 4-7.000 ft. Nearly glabrous, 

 1. elliptic-lanceolate, blade 3-5, pet. h in. long. Ligulate fl. numerous, ligule short, 

 broad. 



Microglossa volubilis, DC. Khasi and Xaga hills. Burma. Upper and Lower, up 

 to 3,o' « ' ft. Malay Penins. and Archip. China. A large evergreen, straggling or 

 climbing shrub, branches grooved, branchlets and 1. slightly pubescent, 1. ovate-lanceo- 

 late, obscurely toothed, blade 2-3, pet. slender J in. long. Heads yellow, clustered on 

 the branches of a rounded corymb, invol. bracts lanceolate, imbricate, ligule of 

 marginal fl. minute, anther-base obtuse, achenes minute. 4-angular. pappus red much 

 longer than the achenes. 



4. BLUMEA, DC; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 260. 



Annual or perennial, a few shrubs, glandular-pubescent or woolly. Invol. 

 bracts imbricate, many-seriate, the outer smaller. Marginal fl. ? , numerous, 

 filiform, minutely dentate at the apex. Disk fl. bisexual, corolla tubular, limb 

 with 5 short teeth, anther-base sagittate, tails small, slender. Species 60, 

 Asia, Africa. Australia. 



1. B. chinensis, DC. Nepal. Sikkim 2-4,000 ft. Bhutan. Khasi hills. Maniptir. 

 Upper Burma, dry hill forest 5,000 ft., east of Bhamo. China. A shrub, scrambling 

 or scandent, glabrous, only inflorescence pubescent. L coriaceous, shining, lanceolate, 

 slightly serrate. Heads yellowish, clustered on the distant brnnrhesof a long terminal 

 panicle, receptacle densely clothed with long thin multicellular hairs. 



2. B. balsamifera, DC.; Kurz F. Fl. Li. 82 [Conyza balsamifera, Linn.). Pin-mathein, 

 Burm. Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft. Assam. Khasi hills. Chittagong. Burma, 

 Upper and Lower. China. Formosa. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. A large 



short-lived very aromatic shrub with herbai us branches, sometimes n small tree. 



coming up gregariously on deserted Taungyas, branches, 1. and inflorescence densely 

 clothed with silky tomentum, 1. lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate, blade 4-10, petiole 

 i-l in. long, with several lanceolate lobes resembling pinnae. Heads yellow, J-J in. 

 ili.'im.. densely clustered on the branches of a large terminal leafy panicle, pappus red. 

 yields camphor, which is an art icleof trade in { Ihina. 3. B. aromatica, I H '. Subhimal. 

 tract and outer hills, from Kumnon eastwards. Khasi hills. Tenasserim. China. 

 Attains 6-10 ft. Glabrous or with thin cottony, sometimes glandular hairs, 1. mem- 

 branous, narrowed into a short petiole rarely bearing lateral lobes. 



5. PLUCHEA, Cass.; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii. 271. 



Shrubs, tomentose or glutinous, 1. alternate. Heads campanulate, hetero- 

 gamous. disciform, outer fl. $ fertile filiform, disc. fl. few, sterile tubular, 

 limit B-fid, invol. bracts imbricate, dry, rigid, the outer smaller. Anther-base 

 Bagittate. Achenes 4- or 5-angled, pappus hairs 1- seriate, slender, rigid. 

 Species 30, warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



A. L. broad, obovate or elliptic. 



1. P. indica. Lam.; Wighl 111. t. 181. Peach and tidal forests on the coasl from 



J to the Mal.n I' Andaman-. Also inland in Btream beds, Upper 



Burma. Malay Archip. China. Nearly glabrous, L obovate obtuse more or less 



dentate, i ■_> in., narrowed into a short slender petiole. 2. P. tomentosa, DC, Sind. 



Gangetic plain from Dehra Dim to Lower Bengal. Western Peninsula. Attains 



lo ft., branohlets and I. pubescent or tomentose, I, sessile, ellipti • broadly obovate, 



obtuse, coarsely toothed, base auricled, pappus reddish. 



B. I., narrow, lanceolate or oblanceolate. 



:i. P. wallichiana, DC. sind, Baluchistan, Gujarat, Punjab. Glandular-pubescent 

 and scabrid, I. rigid, l 2 in. lone, oblanceolate or oblong, - — tie, faintly toot he. I. I. p. 

 lanceoiata, < iliv. Sind. Punjab, Gangetic plain as far as Cawnpore. Afghanistan, 



n n 



