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(26) B. ERiANTHA. (Dee.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 444. — Wight's Contrib. p. 15. 

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

 rai very softly hispid at the apex : leaves membranaceous, sessile, 

 oval, sharply and abruptly dentate, softly pubescent ; upper ones 

 cordate stem-clasping: peduncles axillary and terminal, 1-headed, 

 -solitary or few, aggregate, at last much elongated ; involucral 

 scales linear, ciiiate, acuminate : male and female corollas bearded 

 ■at the apex : male flowers 25-30. 

 Southern Peninsula. 



(27) B. OXYODONTA. ( Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 444. — Wight's Contrib. p. 15. 

 Syn. Conyza oxyodonta. Wall. Cat. No. 3015. 

 ' Spec. Char. Herbaceous, covered with long silky hairs : stems 

 iftany, slender, simple, diffuse ; leaves sharply and thickly serrate, 

 below more silky-villous, lower ones obovate, petiolate, upper 

 ones elliptic, subsessile ; heads of flowers few, racemosely corym- 

 bose at the apex of the branches, subsessile : involucral scales 

 linear, acuminate, ia little longer than the disk: female flowers 

 many-series : males about 15-20 : pappus whitish. 



Pondicherry. Common on the sea-coast near Negapatamt 

 (28) B. PROCERA. (Dec.) 

 . Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 445. 

 ' Syn, Conyza procera, Wall. Cat. No. 3050. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, paniculately ramous, gla- 

 brous- below, at the apex and on the branches covered with villous 

 down : cauline leaves, glabrous, sessile, oval-lanceolate, acuminatei 

 subserrate : panicle broad, divaricate : heads of flowers aggregate 

 at the tops of the branchlets : involucral scales covered with hirsute 

 pubescence at the back, linear, exceeding the flowers : receptacle 

 villous : flowers purple : style bifid : pappus wliite. 



Silhet, 



(29) B. myriocephala., {Dec.') 

 „ Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 445. 



Syn. Conyza squarrosa. Wall. Cai. No. 3025. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, below with the leaves 

 glabrous, above puberulous with the branches of the panicle : leaves 

 oblong, acuminate, long-attenuated at the base into the petiole, 

 subserrulate : panicle much branched ; heads of flowers lateral, 

 sessile and terminal : involucral scales linear, acuminate, recurved, 

 puberulous at the back, a little longer than the disk : female flowers 

 numerous, truncated ; style bifid ; males 5-9 ; pappus.pale reddish^ 



Silhet. 



