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panicle terminal, elongated : lateral peduncles twice &s long as the; 

 leaf: in vol ucral scales linear, acute, longer than the disk: femalt 

 flowers with the style long-exsertedj deeply bifid ; males 3-4 : cgJ- 

 lolla shortly ciliated. 



Patna. 



* (16) B. sENECioiDEs. {Dec.') 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 439. 



Syn. Conyza senecioides. Ham. in Wall. Cat. No. 3102. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, a little striated, very 

 shortly sub-puberulous : leaves petioled, oval, sub-acute, long-cu- 

 neate at the base, distantly callous-toothed, membranaceous, sub- 

 hirsute on the petiole and nerve : panicle lax, terminal : heads of 

 flowers long-pedicelled : involucral scales linear, acuminate, ciliate/ 

 somewhat equalling the disk i Sowers yellow ; styles bifid ; male» 

 about 15. 



Nawauhgunge. 



(17) B. viRENs. {Dee.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 439. — Wight's Contrib. p. \S. 



Syn. Conyza virens, Wall. Cat. No. 3037, 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, ramous, glabrous : leaves 

 rigid, sessile, sparingly puberulous on both sides : cauline ones 

 elongated, cuneate at the base, sessile, trifid r lobes lanceolate, mu- ^ 

 cronate, regularly-serrated; terminal one longer: leaves of the-" 

 branchlets obovate, cuneate at the baise, sparingly serrate : panicle 

 lax ; pedicels axillary, longer than the leaf, 1-5-headed ;, heads of 

 flowers pedicellate : inner scales of the involucre linear,, longer than. • 

 the disk, mucronate: flowers purplish, females numerous, males 5k 



In sandy places on the sea- shore at Negapatam. 



(18) B. LAPSANOIDES. {DeC.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 440. — "Wight's Contrib. p. 15. 



Spec, Char. Glabrous : stem herbaceous, erect, ramous : leaves 

 petioled, membranaceous ; stem ones sinuate-repand, here and tliere 

 mucronateiy serrulate : lobes mucronate, lateral,, sub-triangular, 

 terminal one ovate : leaves of the branches obovate, scarcely sub- 

 serrate: panicle, lax, few-headed: branches lateral, leafy j heads. of 

 flf^wers pedicellate : involucral scales linear, mucronate, longer than 

 the disk : flowers yellowish ; females numerous,, males 10-12. 



Courtallum. 



(19) B. Heyneana. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 441.— Wight's Contrib. p. 15. 

 Syn. Conyza Heyneana, Wall. Cat, No. 3089.— C. miilAg 

 ^eyne. Jlerb, 



