454 COMPOSITE, [Blumea. 



lie, EdgeiV' in Joum. As. 8oc* Beng. xxi, 173. Conyza laeera, Eoajft. PZ. 

 Jnd. in, 428, 



An erect annual 1-3 ft. high, usually glandular-pubescent and with a 

 strong scent of turpentine. Stem simple or branched, very leafy. 

 Leaves sessile or the lower petioled, oval or obovate, dentate or serrate, 

 rarely lobulate, silky on both surfaces. Heads § in., in short axillary 

 cymes or collected into terminal spiciform panicles, rarely corymbose. 

 Invol-hracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, villous and glandular-hairy. 

 Receptacle glabrous. Florets yellow, the lobes of herm. corollas nearly 

 glabrous. Achenes sub 4-gonous, not ribbed, glabrate. 



-Abundant over the whole area, flowering from Feb. to June. Dibtrib. 

 Throughout the plains of India and in Ceylon, extending to the Malay 

 Peninsula and Islands, China, Trop. Africa, and Australia. Very similar 

 to B. Wightiana and, like it, extremely variable, but the florets of the 

 latter are purple, and it has not the odour of turpentine. 

 «. B. hieraoifolia, DC. in Wight Contrih, 15 ; F. B. I. Hi, 263 



^Erigeron hieracif olium, Don. Prod- 172, 



A tomentose villous or copiously woolly herb, rarely glabrate. Stem 

 usually rather robust, simple or paniculately branched above, or, in 

 small plants, soapelike. Leaves very variable as to size and shape, the 

 lower ones usually stalked, elliptic or obovate, dentate or serrate ; 

 upper sessile and often entire, usually densely clothed beneath with 

 white or brownish silky hairs. Heads |-f in. in diam., more or less 

 fascicled or in spikes and forming elongate panicles, rarely corymbose. 

 in-uol-feractsJanceolate, acuminate, the outer tinged with purple and very 

 villous. Receptacle glabrous. Florets yellow; corolla-lobes of herm. 

 florets glabrate. Achenes strongly ribbed, densely villous. 



Throughout the hilly parts of India, from the outer Himalaya eastwards 

 to Burma and southwards to Si India ; also in China and Java. I have 

 seen no specimens of the typical form from the upper Gangetic Plain, 

 but the two following varieties are recorded from this area. 



Vae. 1. Hamiltonii, F. B. I. I.e. B. Hamiltonii, DC. Stems up to 18 in. 

 high, often clothed with white or buff-coloured tomentum. Leaves 

 chiefly radical, villously sUky beneath. Heads in spiked fascicles. — 

 Chiefly in the bub-Himalayan tracts from Garhwal eastwards, ascend- 

 ing to 5,000 ft., abundant in N. Oudh. 



Vab. 2. macrostaohya, F. B. I. Ix. B. macrostachya DC— Stem tall and 

 robust, paniculately branched above. Leaves densely clothed beneath 

 with spreading silky hairs. Heads in large clusters at the ends of the 

 branches. — Dehra Dun (Gamble). Distbib. From Kumaon eastward 

 to Bengal and Manipur. This may, as Clarke suggests, prove to be 

 specifically distinct. 



9. B. laciniata, DC, Prod, v, 436; F. B. I, Hi, 264. Conyza laciniata, 



Roxh. Fl. Ind. iii, 427. 



■ A tall erect herb, pubescent or laxly grey -tomentose. Stem 2-5 ft. high, 

 usually stout, corymbosely branched above. Leaves runcinate lyrate or 



