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(So) B. sPECTABiLis. (Dec.) 



Jdenti Dec. prod. V. p. 445. 



Spec. Char. Nearly the whole plant glabrous, with sub-hirsute 

 branphlets : stem herbaceous, erect, panicled, ramuus : leaves smooth 

 on both sides, oval-lanceolate, long-attenuate at the base, acuminate 

 at the apex, here and there somewhat divided, remotely and cal- 

 lously serrate, shining above : panicles lax, branches velvety, 

 lateral, longer than the leaf, many-headed . involucral scales linear, 

 acuminate, glabrous at the back, ciliate at the apex, almost exceed- 

 ing the flowers : receptacle alveolate, glabrous. 



Peninsula. 



(31) B; PTERODONTA. {DcC.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 448. — Wight's Contrib. p. IS. 



Syn. Conyza alata. Wall. Cat. No. 3039. 



Engrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1100. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, ramous, scarcely sub-puberu- 

 l»as, clammy at the apex : leaves elliptic-oblong, glabrous, sub- 

 serrate, pi'oduced into a wing, deeply and acutely toothed, and 

 almost divided : branches leafy, sub-panicled, 1-or few-headed at 

 the apex i pedicels naked ; exterior involucral scales oblong, leafy, 

 short, inner ones scarios^, linear, acute, a little exceeding the 

 flowers. 



Common on the shores of the Coromandel Coast. 



(32) B. aurita. {Bee.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 449.— Wight's Contrib. p. 16. 



Sya. Conyza aurita, Linn. SuppL 367. — Wall. Cat. No. 3069 

 and 3086. 



Spec. Cmar. Hirsuto-villous : stem erect, ramous ; leaves 

 lyrato-pinnatipartite, lobes oblong, acute, toothed, terminal one 

 greater, lower ones decurrent at the base, 1-2-eared together with 

 the stem : panicle terminal, lax : heads of flowers pedicellate, erect : 

 involucral scales lanceolate, acuminate, outer ones hirsute at the 

 back, inner ones somewhat^ scariose, a little longer than the disk : 

 •male flowers 5-8 : styles exserted. 



On the road sides about Madras. Coromandel Coast. 



(33) B. ALATA, (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 448. 



Syn. Conyza alata, iJoxft. Cat. p. 61. — C. alata, var. Wall. 

 Cat. No. 3039. — Erigeron ^latum, Don. prod. 17K — Yernonia 

 alata, Heyne. Herb. 



£ngrav. Wight's Icon. t. 1101.— Spicil. II. t. 109. 



