456 COMPOSITE. [Laggeea. 



of an elongate panicle. Invol-hracts silky ; outer short, acute, coriace- 

 ous. Receptacle glabrous. Flowers yellow; lobes of her m. corolla 

 very hairy. Achenes ribbed, silky. Pappus white. 



Dehra Dun, in shady ravines (Gamble). Distbib. Trop. Himalaya, from 

 Garhwal eastwards to Sikkim, and on the Khasia Hills, up to 5,000 ft., 

 also in Burma. 



13. B. aromatica, DC. Prod, v, 446 ; F. B. I. in, 270. 

 A glandular and very aromatic shrub-like herb. Stem stout, 3-8. ft. high. 

 Leaves 6-12 in. lon^ obovate-oblong or obovate-lanceolate, serrate or 

 coarsely dentate or lobulate, membranous, glabrous or villous beneath, 

 the lower ones narrowed towards the base into a broadly winged or ap- 

 pendaged petiole ; upper sessile. Heads g-| in. in diam., pedicelled or 

 sessile and arranged in clusters on the branches of a large panicle. 

 Invol-hracis gland-puberulous, the outer broader at the base and much 

 shorter. Receptacle glabrous. Flowers yellow ; oorolla-lobes glandular. 

 Achenes 10-ribbed, hairy. Pappus reddish. 



Behra Dun (Falconer, Gamble), also in the Sub-Himalayan tract of 

 Eohilkhand. Flowers during April and May- Distrib. Trop. 

 Himalaya from Garhwal eastwards to Sikkim, and on the Khasia Hills, 

 ascending to 5,000 ft., extending to Burma and China. 



13. LAGGEBA, Sch. Bip.; FI. Brit. Ind. iii, 270. 



Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves alternate, often rigid and de- 

 ■cnrreut. Heads panicled or axillary, heterogamous, disciform. 

 Outer flowers female, many- seriate, fertile, filiform, mouth minutely 

 toothed. Dish-fi. hermaphrodite, many-seriate, fertile, tubular, 

 limb 5-fid. Involucre companulate ; hracts many-seriate, narrow, 

 often rigid, outer shorter. Receptacle flat, naked. Anther-bases 

 2-lobed or sagittate ; auricles obtuse or acute, often unequal, not 

 tailed nor connate with the adjoining anthers. StyU'arms of harm, 

 flowers and pappus as in JBlumea. — Species 10, in Trop. Africa 

 and India. 



Stem 4-winged, flowers purplish . . ■. 1. L. alata. 



Stem cylindrical. 



Leaves shortly decurrent, flowers pink . '2. L. aurita. 



Leaves not decurrent, flowers yellow . .3. L.flava. 



1. L. alata, SchuHz'Bip. ex Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix, 94 ; 

 F. B. I. Hi, 271 ; Collett Fl Siml. 253 ; CooTce Fl. Bomh. ii, 24. Conyza 

 alata, Uoxh.; Fl. Ind. Hi. 430. Erigeron alatum, Don Prod. 171. 

 A robust much-branched leafy perennial herb, pubescent or tomentose 



and sometimes glandular. Btems 2-4) ft., with broad entire 



