Bhtmea.] lxxtiii. compositjj. (J. D. Hooker.) 269 



** Pappus red. jReceptacle more or less villous or piibesaent (except in B. 

 spectdbilis, var, longifolid). 



30. B. Kookerl, Clarhe mss. ; erect, piiberulous, leaves 8-18 in. mem- 

 'branous oblong-lanceolate pinnatifld acuminate narrowed into a winged petiole 

 lobes Tipcurved acuminate denticulate or lacerate, beads very many ^ in. diam. 

 pedimcled in a very large branched pubescent panicle, invol. bracts narrow rigid 

 puberulous, corolla lobes bispid, recept. narrow pubescent, acbenes imripe. 



SntKiM Himalaya, alt. 1-4000 ft, J. D. H. Khasia Mts., 

 Stem stout, green, herbaceous. Leaves sometimes 7 in. broad, very membranous 

 and glabrous, quite unUke those of any other species. 



31. B. myriocephala, DC. Fi-odr. v. 446 ; shrubby, branches very 

 stout glabrous or puberulous, leaves 6-10 in. glabrous oblanceolate acuminate 

 narrowed into an often appendaged petiole serrulate many-nerved coriaceous, 

 heads \-^ in. subsessUe or clustered on the ascending branches of a narrowly 

 pyramidal elongate tomentose erect panicle, invol. bracts tomentose squarrosely 

 recurved in age, recept. viUous or glabrate, ^ corolla-lobes glabrous or glan- 

 dular, achenes lO-ribbed hairy. B. sessilifolia, Kurz in Jowrn. As. Soc. 1877, 

 ii. 189. Oonyza squarrosa, Wall. Cat. 3025. 0. lanceolaria, Roxh. Fl. Ind. 

 iii. 432. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, alt. 2000 ft., J. D. H. Silhbt, de Silva. Assam and Biema, 

 Griffith. Ghittagono, Clarke. 



Stem as thick as the forefinger. The very numerous nerves and recurved (when 

 dry) margins of the leaves and their small regular teeth, are unlike any other species 

 of this shrubby section, except the following. The name Conyza lanceolaria, Eoxb. 

 is attached to a Calcutta Bot. Garden very narrow-leaved form of this plant in 

 Griffith's Herbarium. 



32. B. spectabilis, DC. Prodr. v. 445; shrubby, branches veiy stout 

 glabrous below pubescent above, leaves 4-10 in. glabrous oblanceolate or elliptic 

 acuminate subserrate narrowed into a long winged often appendaged petiole, 

 heads J in. peduncled free or clustered along the branches of a broad bracteate 

 pyramidal panicle, invol. bracts slender pubescent, 5 corollas-lobes glandular, 

 achenes (unripe) sUky, pappus red. B. myriocephala, Thwaites Enum. 163, 

 excl. syn. Oonyza longifolia, Herh. Seyne in Wall. Cat. 3026. 



Mtsoee, Heyne. Tbavancoeb, Wight, &c. Ceylon, central province, alt. 4000 ft. 



Var. longifolia ; heads smaller J in. diam. sessile on the brariches of a narrow 

 panicle. B. longifolia, DC. Frodr. v. 446 ; Dais. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 125. TuUawaree 

 and Purdana, in Canara, Stocks, Bitchie. — ^Perhaps a different species, the heads not 

 half the size of the type, densely crowded on the branches of a much more contracted 

 panicle, and the receptacle ia quite glabrous, but the leaves are identical a.nd very 

 characteristic. 



33. B. densiflora, DC. Prodr. v. 446 ; stem stout, panicle and leaves 

 beneath densely tomentose or clothed with thick white felted wool, leaves 8-18 

 in. broadly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate narrowed into a long winged sometimes 

 appendaged petiole puberulous above serrate-toothed or pinnatifld, heads \ in. 

 diam. sessile in roimded clusters on a large branched panicle, invol. bracts 

 narrow rather rigid, recept. narrow glabrous, corolla-lobes of g hairy, achenes 

 10-ribbed pubescent, pappus red. Clarhe Comp. Ind. 88. B. excisa and grandis, 

 DC. I. c. 446, 447. B. MUnei, Seem. Fl. Viti 141, t. 27. Oonyza densiflora, 

 excisa owt? grandis, Wall. Cat. 2997, 3011, 3051. 0. falcigera, Wcdl. Cat. 2048; 

 ex DC. I. c. 0. dasycoma, Miq. Fl. Ind. Pat. ii. 66. 



Thopical Himalaya ; Sikkim. Assam ; Mishmi and Naga hills, Griffith. Khasia 

 Mts., alt. 2-4000 ft. Tavoy, Wallich. — Disteib. Malay and Fiji Islands. 



