CoNTZA.] COMPOSITE. 4^7 



1. E. canadensis, Linn. Sp. PI. 863 / F, B. I. Hi, 254. 



An erect much-branched annual, up to 3 ft. high, puhescent or nearly^ 

 glabrous, branches very slender. Leaves 1-3 in., narroTfly linear or 

 linear-lanceolate, acumiuate, entire or remotely toothed, glabrous or 

 pilose. Heads |-^ in. in diam., peduncled in elongate branched 

 panicles. Invol-hracis narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous or 

 pilose outside, I margins scarious. Ligules pale rose or purplish, scarcely 

 exceeding the pappus. Achenes -i^ in., narrow, flat, glabrous. Pappus 

 almost white, turning- reddish. 



Often met with on waste ground and on the borders of cultivation. 

 DiSTBiB. Punjab plain, and on the Western Himalaya up to 3,000 ft. 

 It occurs in all warm countries, and is believed to be indigenous in 

 N.America. 



2. E. asteroides, Boxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 432 ; F. B. I. Hi, 254 s 



Watt E, B, ; Coohe Fl. Bomb, ii, 17. 



A coarse pubescent or villous annual, 1-2 ft. high, Stem branched, erect 

 or sometimes decumbent, clothed with long spreading hairs and viscid 

 glands. Badioal leaves obovate shortly petioled ; caaline |-1 in. long, 

 obovate or oblong, i-amplexicaul, all coarsely toothed or lobulate, 

 hairy on both sides. Beads 5-I in. in diam., peduncled, solitary or 

 sub-corymbose. Invol-lrads 1-:^ -seriate, very narrow, bristle-pointed, 

 much shorter than the pappus, margins scarious. Ligules capillary, 

 violet-blue. Flowers of disk yellow. Achenes very minute, compressed, 

 margined, nearly glabrous. Pappus grey or reddish. 



Dehra Dun and Sub-Himalayan tract of Eohilkhand, also in Bundelkhand 

 (Edgeworth). Flowers after the rainy season. Distbib. From the 

 Punjab plain and Bengal to Bombay, S. India, and Ceylon, ascending to 

 4,000 ft. on the Sikkim Himalaya. This plant is liable to be mistaken 

 for Conyza agyptiaca, to which it bears a very close external 

 resemblance. 



10. CONYZA, Less. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 257. 



Herbs. Leaves alternate, entire, toothed or cut. Meads corym' 

 bose or panicled, rarely solitary, heteroo^amous, disciform ; outer-ff. 

 female, 2-many-seriate, filiform, rarely ligulate, 2-3-toothed, fertile ; 

 inner hermaph., all or mostly fertile, yellow, tubular, limb 5-toothed. 

 Involucre campanulate ; bracts 2-many -seriate, narrow (except in 

 C, rufa), outer smaller. Receptacle flat or convex, naked or pitted 

 and fimbriate. Anther-bases obtuse, entire. Style-arms of fern. 

 flowers flattened, tips long or short. Achenes minute, compressed. 

 Pappus slender, 1 -seriate. — Species about 50, chiefly tropical and 

 subtropical. 



