450 C0MP081TM, [Blxtmea. 



many«seriate, often without corolla, fertile. D»#^j?. hermaph., 

 few., regular, sterile, tube very short, limb narrowly campanulate, 

 4-fid. Involucre hemispheric ; bracts sub-2- seriate, broad, acute, 

 with membranous margins. Meceptacle flat or convex, naked. 

 Anther-bases obtuse, entire or 2-fid. Style-arms short, flattened, 

 subacute. -4c^ewe* of fern fl. small, hardly ribbed. Pappus'hairs 

 about 10, sbort, dilated. — A single species. 



T. divaricata, BQ. Prod, v, 375 ; F'\B, 1. Hi, 259, 



Glabrous or sparsely setuloae. Stem simple or with many spreading 

 branches from the base, 3 in. to 2 ft hig-h. Leaves ^-1^ in. long, sdssile 

 or narrowed into a petiole, Ipvyermost rounded or obovate, cauline 

 spathulate, all sharply serrate towards the apex. Heads ^ in. in diam. 

 Invol-hrads ovate, obtuse, with 3 distinct reddish nerves, the margins 

 membranous. Achenes very small, slightly margined, minutely papillose. 



Sub-Himalayan tracts of Rohilkhand. N. Oudh, and Gorakhpur (Duthie's 

 collector). Flowers in May. Distbib. Trop. Himalaya from Nepal 

 to Sikkim also on^the Khasia Hills, in E. Bengal, and Burma, extend- 

 ing to Tonkin. 



12. BLUMEA, DC. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. iii, 260. 



Annual or perennial glandular-pubescent or woolly herbs. Leaves 

 alternate, usually toothed or lobed. Seads corymbose panicled or 

 fascicled, rarely racemed, heterogamous, distdform, purple rosy or 

 yellow. Outer fl. many-seriate, fern., fertile, filiform, 2-3-toothed. 

 Dish-fi. hermaph., few, fertile, tubular, slender ; limb 5-toothed. 

 Involucre ovoid or campanulate ; bracts many-seriate, narrow, acute, 

 soft or herbaceous, outer smaller. Receptacle flat, naked. Anther- 

 bases sagittate ; tails small, slender. Stifle-arms of hermaph. fl. 

 flattened or almost filiform, obtuse or acute, rarely connate. Achenes. 

 small, subterete or angled, ribbed or not. Pappus l-seriate, slen- 

 der, often caducous. — Species about 60, in • tropical and subtropical 

 Asia, Africa, and Australia. 



Heads on long slender peduncles, solitary or 

 few and corymbose ; receptacle glabrous. 



Heads all solitary. 



Leaves dentate, all alternate ; pappus 

 pink. • . . . . . 1, B,amplectens. 



Leaves serrate, the uppermost opp. ; 

 pappus white . . . * , 2, B. hifoUata. 



