GENUS xxii. berthelotia: 



Syn. Pol. IVecessarla. Sex: Sytt; 



Deriv, Named after M, Berthelot, -who- illustrated the Flora oC 

 tlie Canary Islands. 



Gen. Char. Capitnia heterogamous : flowers of the circumfer- 

 ence man}f-series, female 2-?-tootbed ; of the disk few, 5-toothed : 

 achaenium tapering, without a beak : pappus 1 -series, paleaceous, 

 cohering at the base, scabrous at the apex. — A shrub with alter- 

 rate sessile leaves : tcajiitula forming thick corymbs on the buds o£ 

 the branches : receptacle naked. 



(1) B. LANCEOIATA. (DeC.) 



Far,. Indica^ 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 376. 



Syn, Conyza lanceolata. Wall. Cat. No, 2991. 



Spec. Char. Small shrub, erect, branched, covered with soft 

 iioary pubescence: leaves alternate, sessile, lanceolate, mucronate, 

 quite entire, or here and there sharply serrated at the apex : capi- 

 tula densely corymbose at the tops of the branches : flowen 

 purplish. 



Banks of the Ganges near CawnpoFe. 



GENUS XXIII. CONYZA. 



Syn. Pol. Skup«rflu». Sex -. Sytif 



Deriv. From Konis, dust, because it is supposed, to have the 

 power when powdered and sprinkled of driving away flies, whence 

 the English name of flea-bane or fly-bane. 



Gen. Char. Capitula heterogamous ; florets of the circumfer- 

 ence many-series, female, 3— 5-toothed, of the disk few, male, '5- 

 toothed : achsnium compressed : pappus l-series : bristles filiform. 

 —Erect ramous herbs with alternate leaves and corymbose pedi-* 

 celled capitula : involucre many-serjes : receptacle ebracteolate. 



(1) C. striata. (Wall.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 383. ' 



Spec. Char. Glabrous or minutely pubescent above : stem 

 herbaceous, erect, striately nerved, branched.: leaves lanceolate i>r 

 oblong-liuear, acuminated at both ends, quite entire or^ scarcely sub- 

 serrated : branches leafy, arranged in a panicle and termiuating in ■ 

 many-headed close corymb : involucral scales puberous at the bacJ|F* 

 lancfeolate-linear, acuminated, shorter than the disk. 



Silhet, 



