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Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, hairy, ijivaricately branched 3 

 younger leaves villous, adult ones subglabrate ; leaves of the stem 

 ovate, half-stem-clasping, acutely toothed ; lowest ones here and 

 there cut out at the base : peduncles few, subterminal, a little longer 

 than the leaf, 1 -headed: scales of the involucre linear, bearded, 

 longer than the disk : female flowers many-series : stigmas exserted, 

 red: male, flowers 15-20; anthers exserted.. 



Common on the road sides and in sandy places at K^adras and 

 Negapatam. 



(2) B. ARENARIA, (Dec.) 



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



Syn. Conyza villosa, IVall. Cat. No. 3105. 



Spec. Char. Glabrous at the base, everywhere silky, villous at 

 the apex: stem spreading from. a branching base;, leaves oblong, 

 sessile, with a callous point, acute, entire or sharply denticulate : 

 peduncles solitary, 1-headed, hirsute, axillary and terminal: scales 

 of the involucre linear, acuminate, hirsute at the back, ciliate at the 

 apex : male corollas bearded at the apex ; female flowers slender : 

 style bifid, long-exserted. 



In sandy places near Negapatam. 



(3) B. TENELtA. (Dec.) 



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



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, many-headed, puberulous, spar* 

 ingly branched ; leaves oblong, half-stem-clasping at the base, 

 acute ; distantly sharply and callously-toothed, scabrous with small 

 pubescence : branches subentire : peduncles terminal and opposite- 

 leaved, puberous, 3 times as long as the leaf: scales of the involucre 

 linear, acuminate : flowers yellow, females very numerous, slender, 

 males 8-9 : anthers included. 



In sandy places at Negapatam. 



(4) B. ANAGALLIDTFOLIA. {DeC.) 



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



Syn. Conyza anagallidifolia. Wall. 



Engrav. Rheede Mai. t. 18. (?)— Pluk. t. 19. f. 4. (?) 



Spec Char. Stems manifold, diffuse, branched, puberulous at 

 the apex : stem-leaves oval-oblong, sessile, here and there sharply 

 toothed : leaves of the branches lanceolate, entire, puberiilous : 

 heads of flowers long-pedicelled, solitary, axillary and terminal, dis- 

 posed into a leafy lax subeorymbose panicle : scales of the involucre 

 linear, acute, longer than the disk : female flowers numerous, males 

 10-12, sonjewhat bearded, at the apex of the corolla. 



Common iu moist places at Negapatam, 



