Bhimea.} lxxyiii. compositje. (J. D. Hooker.) 267 



posed in elongated spikes racemes or contracted panicles. — Herbs ■with long- 

 simple or sparmgly branched g;rooved erect or flexuous stems ; leaves 1-3 in., 

 sessile or shortly petioled, glabrous beneath or silky or tomentose, sparingly 

 toothed ; pappus white. — Some forms of B. hieracifdlia belong here, perhaps- 

 also S. chmensis. 



22. B. malabarica, Sook. f. ; pubescent, branches slender elongate 

 flexuous, leaves suhsessile membranous linear-oblong acute distantly serrate 

 slightly hairy beneath, heads ^ in. diam. pubescent in small axillary sessile or 

 peduncled clusters, recept. broad pubescent, achenes strongly ribbed nearly 

 glabrous. 



Canaba and Malabae, Ritchie ; Bababoodan Hills, Law. 



This appears a very distinct species, the leaves are membranous, and have a 

 distinct short slender petiole, quite unlike that formed by the narrowed bases of the 

 leaves ; it is possibly a scandent species. 



23. B. crinita, Arn. Puffill. 30 ; DC. Prodr. vii. 283 ; pubescent hirsute 

 or villous, stem elongate slender or stout flexuous, leaves scEibrid rigid sessile 

 obovate-oblong acute sharply finely or coarsely toothed scabrid above glabrate 

 or tomentose beneath, heads J-f in. diam. woolly or villous sessile in small 

 sessile or long peduncled clusters usually forming an elongate sparse panicle, 

 receptacle and corolla lobes of ^ glabrous, achenes ribbed glabrous, pappus 

 white. Clarke Camp. Ind. 84. 



Ceyxon ; central province, Adam's Peak and Nenera Ellia, Walker, &c. 



The long bro-vm often flexuous stems, and hard uniform toothed sessUe leaves, 

 usually rounded at the base, and the glabrous achenes distinguish this from B. hiera- 

 cifoUa, to ■which it is closely allied. 



24. B. Clarkei, Hook. f. ; stem simple elongate flexuous pubescent or 

 tomentose, leaves shortly petioled 2-3 in. obovate or oblanceolate accuminate 

 toothed pubescent or villous beneath, heads ^-f in. diam. sessile and axillary or 

 peduncled in axillary clusters forming very narrow elongate panicles, invol. 

 bracts slender, receptacle broad pubescent, corolla yellow, lobes of § glandular,, 

 achenes obscurely silky, pappus white. B. hieracifolia, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. ^ 21 



SiKKim HiMALATA, alt. 1-300,0 ft., J. D. H., Clarke. Cachab, Keenan. MEBOxrif 

 Griffith. 



This has quite simple stems, and is intermediate in habit between the larger forms 

 of hieracifolia and malabarica. It agrees in many points -with De Candolle's B. 

 elongata (Erodr. v. 44S), founded on Wallich's Gomyza dongata. Cat. 3078, of which 

 there is no specimen in 'Wallich's Herbarium, but the receptacle of that plant is 

 described as glabrous, and it is a native of Penang. 



25. B. flexuosa, Clarke Camp. Ind. SH ; tall, robust, stem much branched 

 leafy clothed ■with soft spreading hairs, leaves 3-5 in. petioled elliptic-lanceolate 

 acuminate and pungent clothed beneath ■with long soft silky or spreading hairs 

 or glabrate acutely irregularly toothed, heads } in. in large panicled clusters 

 rarely separately pedimcled and cymose, invol. bracts broad pubescent, receptacl& 

 nearly pitted, corolla yellow, lobes of 5 bairy, pappus white. B. hieracifolia, 

 var. Thwaites Enum. 163. 



NiLOHERRT Mrs. ; Sisparah, Wight. Cetion ; Neuera Ellia, Gojrdner. 



I separate this from the larger forms of B. hieracifolia trith great reluctance, 

 especially as Thwaites united the Ceylon specimens with that plant. Both forms 

 have heads sometimes aU pedicelled, and forming a loose open cyme, as in the follow- 

 ing section. The receptacle is indistinctly pubescent. 



Vab. zeyla/aica; leaves from glabrate to densely silkily villous beneath, heads- 

 smaller. 



Vab. peninsularis ; leaves softly loosely hairy beneath. 



