5S" 



HEdihebase, oval-oblong, acute, all sparingly and minutely toolhcds 

 capitula racemose, shortly pedicelled : involucral scales oblong* 

 mucronate : achsenium compressed, slightly hispid. 



North- West Provinces. 



(12) C. RCFA, {Wall.') 



Ideni. Dec. prod. V. p. 384.— Wall. Cat. No. 3079. 

 ' Spec, Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, simple, manifold from 

 t&e base, hairy: leaves villoui;, oblong, obtusely and unequally 

 toothed, obtuse, lower ones attenuated at the base into the petiole, 

 upper ones cuneate at the base, sessile : panicle corymbose : capi- 

 tula pedicelled : involucral scales ovate, Ivoadly white-margiaedj 

 in two rows, cuspidate. 



Assufghur. 



r (33) C. Wallichu. (I>ec.) 



'^ Far. serrulaia. 



Jdent. Dec. prod. V. p. 384. 



Syn. Conyza disticha, Wall. Cat. No. 3029. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, ramosely- corymbose 

 above, glabrous : ultimate branchlets covered with powdery pu- 

 bescence ; leaves elongately linear-lanceolate, acuminate, very 

 slightly serrulated : panicles corymbose, many-headed, with the 

 branches often bifid : capitu^Ia sessile, closely collected at the apex 

 of the branchlets : involucral scales lineaivacuminate, somewhat 

 longei; than the disk. 



*Oude. 



GENUS XXIV. BLUJfEA. 

 Syn. Pol. Superllua. Sex-. Sj/oi; 



Deriv. Called after Dr. Blume, a Botanist, formerly resident in 

 Java. 



Gen. Char. Capitula heterbgamous ; flowers of the circumfer-< 

 ence many-series, truncated or 2-3-toothed : of the disk few, cylin^ 

 dijcal, .5-toothed : achaenium terete: pappus 1-series; bristles 

 capillary.^ — Herbaceous or suffruticose plants with panicled or 

 loosely corymbose inflorescence : involucre imbricated, many-series, 

 scales linear, acuminated : receptacle flat, quite naked or sometimes 

 hairy : flowers yellow or purple. 



(1) B. amplectens. {Dec.) 



Jdent. Dec. prod. V. p. 433.— Wight's Contrib. p. 13. 



syn. Erigeron obliquum, Linn, Jlfarei,— Conyza amplesicauUs,' 

 Zti^. Diet, II. p, 85. (?) J 1- 1 



