270 Lxxviii. COMPOSITE. (J. D. Hooker.) [Blumea. 



The very ■woolly white undereurface of the leaves is a striking character of this 

 species, which however Kurz unites with baUamtfera, perhaps, as Clarke thinks. 

 Tightly, but the corolla lohes in this are hairy, and very glandidar in lalsamifera. 



34. B. aromatica, DC. Prodr. v. 88 ; glandular, stem stout and leaves 

 beneath glabrous pubescent or loosely villous, leaves 6-12 in. membranous 

 obovate-oblong or -lanceolate serrate toothed orlobulate and jagged membranous 

 lower narrowed into a broadly winged often appendaged petiole upper BessUe, 

 heads ^-J in. sessile or peduncled in clusters on the branches of a large spreading 

 panicle, invol. bracts slender pvJberulous, recept. glabrous, corollas-lobes guindular, 

 achenes 10-ribbed hairy, pappus red. Clarke Comp. Ind. 88. Conyza aromatica, 

 Wall. Cat. 3054. 



Tropical Himalaya ; from Kumaon, alt. 1000 ft. eastwards, ascending to 8000 ft. 

 in Sikkim. Assam and Khasia Mts., alt. 3000 ft. Thnasseeim, Kurz. 



A very aromatic shrubby herb, chiefly distinguished from IB. balsamifera by the 

 membranous foliage. 



36. B. balsamifera, DC. Prodr. v. 466 ; tomentose or villous or silkily 

 woolly, stem tall corymbosely branched above, leaves 4-8 in. coriaceous elliptic 

 or oblong-lanceolate usually sUky above serrate sometimes pinnatifid narrowed 

 into a usually auricled short petiole, heads 5-j in. sessile or peduncled in rovmded 

 clusters on the stout branches of a large spreading or pyramidal panicle, invol. 

 bracts tomentose, recept. glabrous, achenes 10-ribbed silky, pappus red. Clarke 

 Comp. Ind, 89 ; Kuns in Journ. As. Sac. 1877, ii. 189, excl. some syn. ; For. Fl. 

 ii. 82; Oonyza balsamifera, lAnn.; Wall. Cat. 2998; Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 427; 

 0. vestita, Wcdl. Cat. 2998. C. appendiculata, Blume Bijd. 895, not Lamk. 



Tropical Himalaya ; Nipal and Sikkim, alt. 1-4000 ft. Assam, Khasia Mts., 

 Chittagong, Pegd, BmMA and the Eastern Peninsula, to Singapore and Penang.- — 

 DisTRiB. Java. 



The most arboreous of all the species, smelling strongly of camphor. 



DOUBTFUL species. 



B. ELONGATA, DC. Prodr. v. 445 (Conyza elongata, Wall. Cat. 3078) ; see under 

 jB. Clarkei. 



B.? LBUOANTHEMA, BC. FroB/T. V. 436 (Erigeron leueanthum, DonProdr. 171). It is 

 impossible to identify this by the meagre description of Don. 



B. PUBIFLOBA, DC. Prodr. v. 434; from Madras (Erigeron asteroides, Moxb. in 

 Wall. Cat. 2975), is probably the Boxburghiau plant referred to (see p. 254), but 

 there are no specimens of Wallich's plant in his herbarium. 



27. IiAGGBBA, Sch. Bip. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, often rigid and decurrent. 

 Heads panicled or axillary, yellow (always ?), heterogamous, disciform ; outer 

 fl. 5 , 00 -seriate, fertile, filiform, mouth minutely toothed ; disk-fl. ^ i °o -seriate, 

 fertile, tubular, limb 6-fid. Involucre campanulate ; bracts oo -seriate, narrow, 

 often rigid, outer shorter ; receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases 2-lobed or 

 sagittate ; auricles obtuse or acute, often unequal, not tailed nor connate with 

 the adjoining anthers. Style-arms of § and pappus as in Blumea. — Distbib. 

 Species 10, tropical African and Indian. 



See remarks under Blumea and under B. membranaeea, var. 6. 



1. Xi. flava, Benth. in Oen.Pl. ii. 290; quite glabrous or puberulous, very 

 slender, leaves sharply toothed or incised lower petioled cauline oblong-<!ordate 

 ^-amplexioaul, heads \ in. diam. few cymose, fl. golden yellow. Clarke Comp. 

 Ind. 90. Blumea flava, DC. Prodr. v. 439. Erigeron falcatum, Don Prodr. 

 172 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1877, ii. 191 ; excl. syn. Oonyza fasciculata, 

 Wall. Cat. 3019 {not 3094). 



