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Spec.' Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, muGh branched, finely 

 striated and puberulous : leaves oblong, attenuated at the base, 

 «btuse at the apex, here and there bearing; sharp exserted teeth, 

 glabrous on both sides ; lower ones lyrate-auricled at the base : 

 panicle leafy, lax : branches the length of the leaf, subcorymbose 

 at the apex : scales of the involucre linear, acuminate, sub-puberu- 

 lous at the back, a little longer than the disk: flowers yftllowi.sb, 

 females numerous : style exserted : males about 12 : pappus white.. 



Exact locality not specified. 



(20) B. PAUciFoiiA, {Dea.y 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. t. 440. 



Spec Ghar, Stem herbaceous, erect, everywhere very mi- 

 nutely puberulous : sub- viscid at the base : leaver petioled, obovate- 

 Otblong,, cuneate at the b^e, here and there serrated ; above in the 

 sdult ones glabrous ; below and in the young ones on both sides 

 softly clothed with villous pubsecence: panicle elongated : involu- 

 cral scales linear, acuminate, ec^ualling the flowers : "flowers yellow- 

 jsh ; males 12-18. 



Silhet, 



(21) B. SUBSIMPLEX. (I^e.) 



Ident. Dee. prod. V. p. 441. 



Syn. Conyza subsimplex. Wall. Cat. No. 3003. — C. panScn- 

 lata, Willi. 



Spec Char. Stem shrubby at the base, slender, glabrous ; 

 branches herbaceous, elongated, somewhat naked, cavered witli 

 villous pubescence ; lower leaves obovate, petioled, cuneate at the 

 base-, rarely and sharply callous-toothed ; above glabrous, beIov7 

 pale and pubescent: leaves of the branches less, petioled, often 

 divided at the petiole : heads of flowers shortly 2-3-pedicelled from 

 the upper axils, almost constituting an interrupted spike : invo- 

 cral scales linear, acuminate, puberulous at the back, glabrous at 

 the apex, archly reflexed : flowers pale-yellowish brown. 



Silhet. 



(22) B. HiERAcirotiA. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 442. — Wight's Contrib. p. 15. 



Syn. Conyza hieracifolia, Spr. SyM. III. p. 814. — Erigeroiv 

 liieracifolium, Don. prod. fi. Nep. p. 172. — C. communis,^ Wall. 

 Cat. No. 3018. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1099. 



Spec Char, Whole plant hirsute^ stem herbaceous, erect, 

 gimple leaves callous-toothed : lower ones obovate, obtuse, atten- 



