Blumea.] COMPOSITR. 83 
involucre-bracts silky-pilose, linear-subulate, acuminate, about 3 
lin. long, the outer ones gradually shorter; florets numerous, 
yellow ; achenes minute, glabrous, the pappus soft, 3-34 lin. long, 
pinkish pale-coloured. 
Has.—A most common and troublesome weed freely springing up in de- 
serted toungyas and savannahs, along river-sides, etc., all over Burma, up to 
3,000 ft. elevation —FI. Fr. H.S.—l.—SS.= o. 
REMaRKs.— Wood pale-coloured, rather light, but close-grained, soft. Yields 
camphor equal to the Chinese one. 
PLUCHEA, Cass. 
slightly widened and 5-cleft. Anthers sagittate at the base, the 
basal lobes acuminate-caudate. Style-branches of hermaphrodites 
a single series—Shrubs, with usually toothed or pinnatifid leaves. 
Fer head often small, in terminal corymbs; florets usually 
1. P. Indica, Less.—Kayoo,—An evergreen large shrub, all 
parts glabrous or the young shoots puberulous; leaves obovate 
to cuneate-obovate, shortly petioled to almost sessile, bluntish to 
acute, 1-2 in. long, memb , Sinuate-toothed, glabrous; flower- 
heads small, sessile or nearly so, forming usually glabrous terminal 
corymbs; bracts rigid, the outer ones ovate and bluntish, the 
innermost ones linear, acute, about 2 lin. long; florets lilac; 
achenes minute, the pappus white. 
Has.—Frequent in the beach and tidal forests, and entering the tidal savan- 
nahs, all along the coasts from Chittagong down to Tenasserim and the Anda- 
mans.—F], Cs. ; Fr. H.S.—1L—SS.=Sal. Aren. ca, 
CAMPANULACEZ. 
from, or very rarely more or less adnate to, it; anthers opening 
longitudinally, free or united in a ring round the style. Ovary 
inferior or rarely superior or free except the broad base, 2- or more- 
