82 COMPOSITH. [ Mieroglossa. 
shrubs, with entire leaves. Flower-heads small, corymbose, or 
corymbosely paniculate ; florets blue or lilac. 
1. M. volubilis, DC.—An evergreen, large, scandent shrub, 
the branchlets more or less pubescent; leaves ovate to _ovate- 
lanceolate, acute at the base, acuminate, 14 to 2 in. long or longer, 
membranous, entire, on both sides (above roughishly) puberulous ; 
flower-heads small, sessile or shortly peduncled, cymose and form- 
ing more or less divaricate puberulous or almost glabrous corymbs 
at the end of the branchlets; involucre-bracts linear, bluntish, 
thin-scarious, 1-nerved, ciliate 3 florets all lilac; achenes angular, 
minute, glabrous, the pappus silky, about 2 lin. long, pinkish 
pale-coloured. 
H4s.—Frequent in hill-poonzohs all over Martaban and Tenasserim, up to 
3,500 ft. elevation; Ava, Kakhyen-hills. Fl, Feb.; Fr. March.—l,—SS.= 
BLUMEA, DC. 
Flower-heads heterogamous, discoid, the outer fertile florets 
female m several rows, those of the disk often few and rarely 
sterile. Involucre ovoid to bell-shaped, the bracts imbricate in 
many rows, narrow, herbaceous to chartaceous, the outer. ones 
gradually smaller, Recep flat, i 
filiform, ponataly 2-3-toothed, the hermaphrodite ones regular, 
a 
ifera, DC.—Poung-ma-theing.—An evergreen 
l. B. balsam 
shrub sometimes owin 
