Laggera.] lxxviii. composure. (J. D. Hooker.) 271 



Throughout Noetheen India ; from the Himalaya in Kumaon eastwards, ascend- 

 ing to 6000 ft. in SiKKiM and Bhotan ; southwards to Behar and the Golconbah 

 Hills, Beddome in the west, and to Chittagong, Pegu, Tavoy and Pbnanq in the 

 «ast. 



Stem 6 in. to 3 ft., simple or corymbosely branched above, groored. Leaves 1-3 

 in., sometimes scaberulous, membranous. Heads on capillary peduncles ; reeept. 

 glabrous ; corolla yellow, lobes of J glabrous ; anthers sagittate. Achenes most 

 minute, glabrous. Fappus white. 



2. Xi. alata, ScAuUz-Bip. in Serb. Hohenack. n. 1340 ; robust, mucli 

 tranehed, pubescent or tomentose, stem with entire ■wings, leaves oblong toothed 

 sessile decurrent, heads f in. diam. racemed on short axillary winged branches 

 drooping in fruit, fl. purplish. Clarke Comp. Ind. 91. L. divaricata, Oliv. Fl. 



Trap. Afr. iii. 525. Blumea alata, DC. Prodr. v. 448 ; Dcdz. 8; Gibs. Bomh. 

 Fl. 125 ; Wight Ic. t. 1101. B. vernonioidea, JDC. I. c. 447. Conyza alata, 

 Roxb. Sort. Beng. 61 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 430. C. nutans, BUme Bijd. 896. 0. 

 cernua, Wall. Cat. 3012. Erigeron alatum, Dcm Prodr. 171. Vernonia Wight- 

 iana, Wall. Cat. 2923 {jwt of Amott). 



Teopical HmAiAYA, alt. 1-5000 ft., from Simla eastwards to SntxiM, and south- 

 -wards in hiUy districts ascending to 6000 ft. in the Nilgkeeet Mrs., and to 7000 ft. 

 in Ceylon. Not found south of the Khasia Mts. and Birma in the east. — ^Disteib. 

 Java, China, Philippine Islds., Trop. Africa. 



A stout, leafy herb. Leaves 1-4 in., sometimes almost entire. Invol. bracts many, 

 ■outer short herbaceous often recurved, inner long straight. Acheties hairy ; pappus 

 ■white. 



3. Xi. pterodonta, Benth. in Gen. PI. ii. 290 ; much branched, glabrous 

 or puberulous^ stem with deeply toothed lobed or interrupted wings, leaves 

 sessile oblanceolate toothed or pinnatifid at the base, heads § in. diam. on 

 (usually) slender peduncles at the ends of the branches, fl. purple. Clarhe 

 Comp. Ind. 93. Blumea pterodonta, DC. in Wight Contrib. 16 ; Prodr. v. 448 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1100. Oonyza cernua, Wall. Cat. 3012 B. SeiTatula polygona, 

 A. Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 437, t. 62. 



Teopical Himalaya; from Simla, alt. 4000 ft. eastwards. Assam, Bibma, 

 NiLQHEEEY and PuLNET Mts. — DiSTEiB. Trop. Africa. 



A more slender and glabrous plant than L. alata, well distinguished by the re- 

 markable wings of the stem, whidi are sometimes represented by a series of mem- 

 branous vertical laminse ^^ in. broad. Invol. bracts glabrous, rigid. 



4. Xi. aurita, Schultz-Bya. in Serb. Sohenack. ; rather slender, viscidly 

 birsute pubescent or villous, stem not winged, leaves small sessile or petioled. 

 oblanceolate toothed lobed cut or ^pinnatifid, heads ^-^ in. diam. in small 

 lateral or terminal corymbs, flowers pink. Clarke Comp. Ind. 92. Blumea 

 aurita, DC. Prod/r. v. 449. B. guineensis, DC. I. c. Oonyza amita, Linn.f.; 

 Moxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 428 ; Wall. Cat. 3069? and 3086; Boiss. Fl. Orient, iii. 216. 



Plains of India from the Punjab and Scind, eastwards and southwards to Chitta- 

 CONG, Biema and Teatancoee. — Disteib. Tropical Africa. 



A well-marked species. The leaves are decurrent, but very shortly only. Invol. 

 bracts slender, soft, villous. — The whole plant has an odour of turpentine. 



28. FXiVCKZiA, Cass. 



Shrubs rarely herbs, tomentose or glutinous. Leaves alternate. Seads 

 small, in terminal leafless corymbs or large and subsolitary, heterogamous, dis- 

 ciform, white, yellow or lilac ; outer fl. § , oo -seriate, fertile, filiform ; disk-fl. 

 $5 , few, sterile, tubular, limb 5-fld. Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; bracts 



