112 PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 



leaves, in substance, were mixed with their food. They found 

 it grateful to the stomach, and it seemed to contribute to their 

 cure ; although being necessarily combined with other medi- 

 cines, its proportional share of merit could not be well ascer- 

 tained. The progress of the disease was arrested by removing 

 the people to a drier situation, where they could enjoy trfe 

 benefit of exercise, within certain limits. This however affords 

 a presumption that the Conyza balsamifera might be found an 

 useful addition to the sea provisions of Lascars and as it grows 

 abundantly all over the uncultivated tracts, it could be supplied 

 in almost any quantity. 



2. Conyza odorata, Linn. S. N. ed. Gmel. 2, 1221. 



Eupatoria conyzoides maderaspatana, folijs glabris, flore 

 purpurascente. Pluk. aim. 141, t. 177, f. 2. Loureiro. Fl. 

 Cochinch. ed. Willcl. p. 605. 



Grows plentifully in low ground near the sea ; flowers in 

 September. The whole plant has a strong aromatic smell, 

 which is perceptible at some distance. 



Eeigeron. 



Erigeron conyzoide, H. (Prob. Crepis japonica Benth). 



Leaves ovate : lanceolate, pointed, repand, smooth ; panicles 

 terminal, umbelled ; rays of the corol capillary. Stem her- 

 baceous (or suffruticose) pithy, round, streaked. Leaves 

 alternate, ovate lanceolate, pointed, repand, smooth. Petioles 

 short, slender. Panicles terminal, diffuse ; composed of many 

 umbels ; proper pedicels very slender. Flowers small, whitish. 

 Calyx imbricated, with scales lanceolate, very small. Corolla 

 compound, cylindrical, hardly radiate, corollets hermaphrodite 

 tubular in the disc ; females semiligulate in the ray. Proper of 

 the hermaphrodite funnel form, limb five cleft. Of the female, 

 tubular for two thirds of its length, tube capillary, very slender, 

 limb two lipped ; upper lip most minute, lower linear, revolute. 

 Stam : In the hermaphrodites, filaments five, capillary, very 

 short, anthers united into a cylindrical tube. Pist : as in the 

 generic character ; but the pappus is longer than the corolla 

 in all the florets, female as well as hermaphrodite. 



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