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Hated into the petiole, upper ones oval or olblottg, acute, sessile 

 wr half-stem-clasping : Jieads of flowers sessile, collected together 

 and disposed into ah ovate-oblorig thyrsus r irivolucral scales linear, 

 aeUminate^ longer than the disk :• female floVvers numerous : style. 

 <ess6Hedj Undivided ; males 5 : ovaries pubescent. 



Silhet. Carnatic. 



(33) B. ttRPUREA. CDs'') 



Ideni. Dec. prod. V. t. 443. 



Syn. Conyza purpurea, Wall. Cat, No. 3076. 



Spec. CkAR. Whole plant sparingly villoos: stem erect) hei- 

 baceous, simple: leaves ovate, acute, serrate, entire at the huae, 

 attenuated-i branches many, somewhat naked, paniculately dis- 

 posed and bearing sessile-spiked heads of flowers : involucral scales, 

 linear, acute ; exterior ones short, ashy-green : inner ones coloured, 

 a little longer than the flowers : involucres purplish : male flowery 

 about 20 : pappus white. 



Kajmahal hills. 



pJ4) B. GtOMERAtA. (Dee.) 



tdent. Dec, prod. V. p. 443.— Wight^s Contrib. p. 15. 



Syii. ConyZa glomerata, WalL Cat. No, 3055. — C. fistulosai 

 lloicb. flor. Ind. III. p, 429. 



Spec. Char. Whole plant villaua and sonu^what hi^sutd, ast- 

 coloured : stem herbaceous, «reGt, -branched : branches leafy, arrang- 

 ed in a panicle a.nd bearing at the apex sessile glomerated interrupt- 

 etfly'-spflked heads of ^flowers : leaves lanceolate, serrate, acute at- 

 both ends : involucral scales many-series : outer ones smallest ; 

 inner ones linear, exceeding the flowers : female flowers scarcely 

 more numerous than the males, truncated : stigmas bifid, purple : 

 male flowers 30, bifid : anthers yellow, texserted. 



Sea^beach at Negapatam. 



(25) B. Belangeriana. (Dee.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 444. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, ramous from the base : tjie 

 base sparingly hispid : the apex softly villous ; lower leaves obo- 

 \rate, somewhat obtuse, attenuated into a short petiole ; upper ones 

 s'ubsessile, all sharply serrate, above sparingly hairy, below, 

 thickly silky-villous : heads of flowers heaped in the upper axils, 

 almost interruptedly-spiked: involucral scales linear, glabrous, cili- 

 ate at the apex :■ female flswers few, males 8-10-5 receptacle narroWj 

 liaked : antliers exserted. 



, Malabar Coast, 



