204 S. Kurz — Contrihtttions fotvards a [No. 2, 



Var. a. VEEA, Clark. Comp. Ind. 236 (incl. var. /?. nivea, Clark. 1. c), 

 flower-heads long-peduncled, laxly racemose, larger, the involucre-bracts 

 nearly entire at the tips; upper leaves entire or the end-lobe deltoid and large. 



Var. (3. POLTCEPHALA, Clark. Comp. Ind. 236, flower-heads smaller, 

 shorter peduncled, and more crowded, laxly racemose and panicled, the 

 involucre-bracts blunt and erose-toothed ; upper leaves or their end-lobe 

 sagittate. 



Hab. Yar. a. Martaban on the Nattoung hill (Kev. F. Mason) ; var. j8. 

 frequent in open and grassy places in the drier hill-, especially the pine- 

 forests on the highest ridges of the Martaban hills, at 6000 — 7100 ft. eleva- 

 tion. — Fr. March. 



2. S. PEGUENSis, Clark. Comp. Ind. 235. 



Hab. Karen hills (O'Eiley). 



Dicoma, Cass. 



1. D. TOMEN-TOSA, Cass. Bull. phil. 1818.; Diet. XIII. 195 and 

 XLVII. 503 ; DC. Prod. VII. 36 ; Clark. Comp. Ind. 36.— (Z). lanuginosa, 

 DC. Prod. VII. 36 ; Wight Icon. t. 1140). 



Hab. Ava, limestone-hills about Segain (Wall.). — Fl. Fr. Nov. 



N. B. Sochstetteria Scliimperi, Clark. Comp. Ind. 246, non DC. 

 = Pegolettia Senegalensis, Cass. I cannot see in what Sochstetteria and 

 iPegolettia do differ, and still less can I understand how they can be placed 

 almost at the opposite ends of the order, considering that two of the Pegolet- 

 tias have the corolla even more bilabiate than are those of Hoclistetteria 

 Schimjperi, as figured by A. Pyr. De Candolle. 



Leucomeris, Don. 

 Conspectus of Species. 

 Flower-heads on short slender peduncles or almost sessile, in peduncled corymbs from 

 the axils of the upper-leaves and terminal ; leaves almost coriaceous, white-tomen- 



tose beneath, X. spectahilis. 



Flower-heads solitary, in dense terminal umbel-like corymbs, the involucral bracts 

 gradually shorter and passing into the thick short densely imbricate-bracted 



peduncle ; leaves membranous, glabrous, X. decora 



1. L. DECOEA, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 317 ; Clark. 

 Comp. Ind. 245. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the eng- and dry forests of the Prome Dis- 

 trict.— Fl. March ; Fr. May. 



Ainsliaea, DC. 



Conspectus of Species. 

 X Leaves narrowed at the base and dectirrent wing-like on the petiole. 

 Sparingly pilose, the flowering stems more or less sessile-leaved ; leaves membranous 

 obscurely crenate-toothed ; flower-heads sessile or peduncled, in lax spikes or 

 diff"use narrow panicles, ^, pUropoda, 



