1877.] Knowledge of the Burmese Flora. 183 



Sphse ran thus, L. 



Conspectus of Species. 



Suhg. 1. Vohjcephalos, Forsk. Outer bracts of the flower-heads longer than the 

 flower-heads themselves, scarious and long-awned. 

 Glabrous, the branches only slightly winged; heads more oval, sessile, the empty bracts 



glabrous, , S. amarantoides. 



Glandular-puberulous, the branches leafy- and serrate-winged ; heads shortly peduncled, 



the empty bracts appressed bristly and ciliate, S. Fegimisis. 



Suhg. 2. Eu-SphcerantJms. Bracts shorter than the flower-heads and almost en- 

 tirely hidden by them. Branches leafy- winged. 

 Pubescent or hirsute ; heads globose | — | in. thick, the involucre-bracts tapering into a 



subulate ciliate point, • S. hirtus. 



Glabrous ; heads half the size, the involucre-bracts scarious, often jagged at the ends, 



. . S. Indicus, 



1. S. PEGrE:N"Sis, Clark. Comp. Ind. 97. 



Hab. Frequent on fallow fields and in waste lands of Prome ; jDro- 

 bably also Ava. — FL March. 



I have not seen the Ava specimens of SpJi. amarantoides referred to 

 by DeCandoUe, bat suspect they belong to the above species. 



2. S. HiETUS, Willd. sp. pi. III. 2395 ; Wight Icon. t. 1094 ; Clark. 

 Comp. Ind. 97. (S. mollis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 546 ; DC. Prod. V. 369). 



Hab. Common in fallow fields, in cultivated or deserted toungyas, 

 along river-banks and similar places, all over Burma, from Chittagong down 

 to Tenasserim. — Fl. November to April ; Fr. April, May. 



3. S. Indicus, L. Fl. Zeyl. 312 ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. III. 446. {8. micro- 

 cephalus, Willd. sp. pi. III. 2395 ; DC. Prod. V. 369 ; Bth. Fl. Austr. IV. 

 522; Clark. Comp. Ind. 97). 



Hab. Prome district ; Upper Tenasserim, Moulmein. — Fl. Sept. — 

 Apr. ; Fr. C. and HS. 



Epaltes, Cass. 



1. E. DIYAEICATA, Cass. Bull, philom. 1818. 139 ; DC. Prod. V. 461 ; 

 Clark. Comp. Ind. 96. {Etlmlia divaricata, L. Mant. 110 ; Burm. Fl. Ind. 

 176. t. 58. f. 1 ; {JE. linearifolia, DC. 1. c. ; E. pygmaea, DC. 1. c). 



Hab. Prome hills (Wall ).— Fl. Sept., Octob. 



Blumea, DC. 



Conspectus of Species. 

 * Cauline leaves not decurrent on the branches. Florets golden to pale yellow^ 

 (except in the white or hlue-flowered B. Wightiana). (Apterse, DC.) 

 X Flower-heads on long peduncles arising singly from the axils of the 

 leaves, or rarely appearing compound fi-om the reduction of the 

 leaves. 



