254 Lxxviu. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Braehyactig. 



sparingly silky; pappus scanty, 1 in. long, reddish. — In luxuriant specimens the 

 leaves are 2-3 by 1-1^ in. and very membranous. 



3. B. robusta, Benth. in Hooh. le. PI. under t. 1106 ; Stout, atinual, 

 glandular-puTjescent, erect, branched, leaves obovate toothed narrowed into a 

 short petiole, receptacle broad. Conyza pubescens, DC. Prodr. v. 381. 



"Western Himalaya, alt. 4-14,000 ft., from Kashmir to Kumaon and Ghirwhal, 

 Falconer, Edgeworth, &c. Westeem Tibet, alt. 12-14,000 ft., Thomson, &c. 



Possibly only a large form of B. umbrosa, the heads are ^ in. diam., but the 

 achenes and pappus are no longer. 



22. ERXGEROir, Linn. 



Characters of AsTEE, but ray-flowers usually in several rows with very 

 slender short or long ligules, and the achenes narrower. Pappus often double, 

 the outer of a few short hairs or bristles. — DisTKiB. Species about 100, chiefly 

 natives of N. Teinp. regions, extremely variable and difficult t(i discriminate 

 from one another, and certain of them from species of Aster. 



E. linifolius, Willd. (Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 169), is found as an escape, or a garden 

 weed, in the Punjab and elsewhere. It is a stout erect hirsute herb, with leafy stem 

 and branches, the leaves are close-set, 2-2^ by |-^ in., serrated here and there, the 

 numerous peduncled heads are subpaniculate and |-4 in. in diam. It is the Conyza 

 angmiifolia of Thwaites Herb. (C. P. 3928) but not of Hamilton. 



1. Species of the tropical region. 



1. E. canadensis, Imn. ; Soiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 163; annual, very 

 slender, much branched above, pubescent hirsute or nearly glabrous, leafy, 

 leaves narrow linear or linear-lanceolate entire or toothed, heads J— J in. diam. 

 peduncled in elongated branched panicles, invol. bracts narrow glabrate, ligules 

 erect pink, pappus dirty white. 



Westeen Himalaya and the Punjab, ascending to 3000 ft. Rohilkxjnd, Thomson. 

 — DiSTEiB. All warm countries, assumed to be a native of N. America. 



Stem 6 in.-3 ft. and branches erect, more slender than in any other Indian species, 

 and the heads smaller. Invol. bracts acuminate ; ligules pale rosy or purplish, 

 scarcely exceeding the pappus. Achenes ^ in. narrow, flat, nearly glabrous ; pappus 

 iin. 



2. E. asteroldes, Boxb. 2''^. J«i. iii. 432 ; pubescent or villous, branched, 

 radical leaves obovate petioled cauline obovate or oblong ^amplezicaul all 

 toothed or lobulate, heads 5-^ in. peduncled solitary or aubcorymbose, ligules 

 capillary blue rather longer than the reddish or dirty white pappus. Wall. Cat. 

 3052 A. E. hispidum, BC. in Wight Contrib. 9; Prodr. v. 292; darke 

 Comp. Ind. 54, B. sublyratum, Boxb. in DC. I. I. c. c. ; Clarke I. c. 55, 301. 

 E. hirsutum, Wall. Cat. 2976. E. segyptiacum, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 193. Conyza graveolens, Wall. Cat. 3106. C. segyptiaca, Serb. Ind. Or. 

 Sf. ^ T.,not of Ait. 0. Jerdoni, Clarke Comp. Ind. 62. 



Teopical Himalaya ; Nipal, Wallich ; Sikkim, ascending to 4000 ft., J. D. H. 

 Bengal and the Western Peninsijla. 



A coarse annual, 1-2 ft. high, erect, or in a dwarf state decumbent, closely re- 

 sembling Conyza agyptiaca. Caidine-leaves i-1 in., numerous. Invol. bracts 1-2- 

 seriate, very narrow with hair points, much shortei: than the pappus. Achenes very 

 minute, ^ in., nearly glabrous, flat, pale. — Blumea pubijtora, under which Roxburgh's 

 E. asteroides is quoted by DC. as a synonym, appears from the description to be a true 

 Blumea, but ofWallich's 2975 Erigeron asierotdes, Roxb. also quoted under the same 



