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Spec. Chah. Stem herbaceous, erect, ramous, and with tte 

 leaves covered with a short reddish velvety pubescence j. leave? ,el- 

 liptic-oblong, toothed, produced together with the stem into quite 

 entire wiiigs ; peduncles axillary, l-or few-headed, racemosely pani- 

 cled : heads of flowers suberect : exterior scales lanceolate, leafy, 

 squarrose, somewhat doWny ; inner ones linear, scariose, equalling 

 the flowers : flowers purple> males 10-12. 



Concans. 



(34) B. LACiNiATA. (Dec.) 



tdent. Dee. prod. V* p. 436. 



Syn. Conyza laciniata, Roxb. flof. Ind. Ill p. 427. 



Spec. Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, branched, puberulousj 

 softly and sparingly hairy at the apex : lower leaves pinnately-par- 

 tite, somewhat scabrous on both sides, lobes four, oblong, oval, the 

 higher ones confluent with the unequal lobe, all somewhat expand, 

 acutely and unequally toothed, upper ones oblong, sessile, here and 

 there serrated : panicle many-headed, branches elongated, thyrsoid 

 at the apex : capitula pedicelled : involucral scales linear-acuminate, 

 longer than the disk. 



Bengal, flowering towards the end of the year. 



(35) B. MCSRA. (Dec.) 



Jdent. Dec. prod. V. p. 435. 



Syn. Conyza musra, Hflm. in Wall, Cat. No. 3095. 



Spec. Char. Whole plant ash-coloured and softly villous : stem 

 herbaceous, erect, branched : leaves oval-oblong, awned and serrat- 

 ed, attenuated at the base, lower ones petioled, lyrately appendicu- 

 late below, lobed, narrow, acute, sometimes distinct from the edge,, 

 at other times confluent with it : branches of the panicle erect, 

 closely corymbose at the apex ; involucral scales scarcely acute, 

 villous, the length of the disk : male florets bearded at the apex : 

 flowers yellowish. 



Holasgunge. 



(36) B. CERNUA. (Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. prod. V. p. 436. 



Syn. Conyza nuta?J5, Ham. in Wall, Cat. No. 3080. 



Spec Char. Stem herbaceous, erect, somewhat simple, puberu- 

 lous at the base, velvety-villous at the apex : leaves obovate, atten- 

 uated at the base, coarsely and acutely toothed, puberulous above, 

 villous below, lower ones long-extended at the base, upper ones 

 oblong, villous on both sides i branches of the elongated panicle 

 longer than the lea)^ bearing at the apex subsessile glomerated 



