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Spec. Char. Whole plant covered with short glandulose hairs i 

 stem herbaceous, erect, striated : cauline leaves shortly petioled» 

 ovate, subacuminate, irregularly toothed, divided with lyrate inci- 

 sions at the base : leaves of the br.inch cuneate at the base, obovate- 

 oblong : heads of flowers constituting a leafy panicle at the apex of 

 the branches: pedicels ramous, glandulose, shorter than the leaf: 

 involucral scales linear, acute, equalling the disk : flowers yellowish,, 

 males about 10. 



Negapatam. 



(13) B, PHYI-LOSTACHYA. (/)«?.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 438. 



Syn. Conyza paniculata. Herb. Madr. ex. Wall. Cat. No*. 

 3090. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, glabrous at the base, 

 hispid with soft spreading hairs at the. apex together with the 

 branches and petioles : leaves petiolate, lyrate, pubescent ; inferior 

 lobes few, small, oblong-linear, acute, or 3-toothed ; terminal one' 

 greatest, ovate-obtuse, sub-lobate at the base, acutely toothed : pa> 

 nicle compressed : branches short, bearing obovate, or oval acutely-- 

 toothed leaves intermixed with the hends of flowers : involucral 

 scales linear, acute, glabrous, longer than the disk - female flowers 

 numerous ; males 5. 



Peninsula. 



(14) B. RUNciNATA. {Dee.} 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 438. 



Syn. Conyza runcinata. Wall. Cat. No. 3087. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, ramous, covered with vel* 

 vety pubescence : lower leaves produced into a dilated auricled pe- 

 tiole at the base, oblong, nincinate, irregularly toothed, puberulous 

 above, below villous : panicle elongated : bmnches bearing at thfr 

 apex heads of flowers heaped together and interruptedly spiked : 

 involucral scales linear, acute, villous at the back, longer than the 

 disk : female flowers slender : style scarcely exserted ; males 12-1 a. 



Jlurdwar. 



(1.5) B. sonchifolia. {Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 438. 



Syn. Conyza soiichifolia, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 



Spec. Char. Whole plant covered with viscid villous pubes-^ 

 cence : stem erect, simple, striated : lower leaves petioled, lyrate • 

 lower lobes few, oblong, acute, terminal one greatest, triangular all 

 thickly and uuequally toothed ; upper ones divided or toothed j 



